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TOWN RECORDS 



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Brookline, Massachusetts, 



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PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF THE TOWN. 
1892. 



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PRINTED BT 

A. W. SPENCER, 

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This volume has been prepared and is published pursuant to the 
following vote, passed at the special town meeting, held September 
18. 1890, under the eighth article in the warrant, to wit: — 

Eighth Article, — " To appropriate money for the printing of Town 
Records." 

" Voted. That the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be appro- 
priated for printing the Town Records for the years L838 to L871, 
inclusive, said sum to be taken from any money in the treasury -not 
otherwise appropria ted." 

The records of the period covered by the above vote are published 
in two volumes, one comprising the years 1838 to 1867, inclusive, the 
other the years 1858 to 1871, inclusive. 

B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 
Brookline, February. 1892. 



BROOKLINE TOWN RECORDS. 



1838, May. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled at the Town Hall, May 7, 1838, 

Deacon John Robinson was chosen Moderator. 

Voted, That the report on Town Accounts be accepted. 

Voted, That the sum of Forty-two hundred dollars be 
raized for the expences of the Town the current year. 

Voted, That the report of the committee for the repairs 
of Roads at the south part of the town be accepted. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to borrow for 
the use of the Town One Thousand dollars if need be and 
placed in the hands of the Treasurer. 

Voted, That the time for collecting Taxes hereafter be by 
the first day of October under the same restrictions as on the 
first day of January heretofore. 

Voted, That Doct. Charles Wild, Deacon Elijah Corey 
and Ebenezer Heath be a committee to Audit the Treasurer's 
accounts, and report at the March meeting. 

O. Whyte having declined at»Mareh meeting being consid- 
ered as a candidate for the office of Collector & Treasurer, 
on motion of Deacon Clark a 

Vote of thanks was past for his services as Treasurer. 

KKPOKT OF COMMITTEE ON TOWN ACCOUNTS. 

The committee which was chosen at the meeting in March last respect- 
fully report that they have carefully examined the books, account-. 
securities & vouchers of the late Town treasurer and of the new treas- 
urer of the school fund for the last year as Avas required of them, and 
the following is the state of affairs : — 

The treasurer of the school fund has received a ballance of 111 63 
from the hands of the late treasurer Mr. James Leeds, and 

has collected interest HO ^9 

making him responsible for 252 32 

He has paid for instruction to order of Selectmen . . 255 

leaving the fund indebted to him , 2 68 



2 BrooMine Toicn Records. 

The amount of the fund as it has stood for many years was 
received from the surplus revenue and devoted to the ~| 

same purpose as hitherto J 

which with amount taken from the Town treasury to "» 

make up a round sum J 

gives 
for the total amount of the fund at the present time and 
yeilding (being now all regularly invested) an annual 
income of . 




224 


97 


3346 


38 


700 


31 


348 


24 


$4394 


93 


4402 


23 



The Town treasurer's accounts for a whole tax levied of . 3571 35 

by bad debts abatements &c .... 6163 

now outstanding & unpaid .... 1G3 64 

and amount actually collected 

To this is to be added balance in his hands at the last audit 
and back taxes and other debts collected in the year . 
render him accountable to the town in the sum of 
But he has exhibited satisfactory evidence of having paid •> 
for the use of the town to orders of the Selectmen . J 
making the town his debtor in a ballauce of . . . $7 30 

The Total disbursements then has been by Town 

treasurer ...... 4402 2:3 

The expenditures fall under the following class : 

Repairs of Roads 

School Houses & Town house 

Support of the Poor 

Expences of public education 

Sallaries & expences of Town Officers . 

Military expences & abatements 

Damages, pound expences, depreciation of bills 

County and Needham taxes .... 

Engine department fires, &c . , 

$4657 23 

By the foregoing statement it will be manifest that the finances of the 
Town are in arrears, small balances being due to both the Treasurers, the 
outstanding debts to be paid amounting to about 400$, while nothing is 
due to the town except a few arrears of taxes which can be brought in 
offset — this has arisen from the insufficiency of the last tax levied to 
meet a number -of unexpected contingencies which have swelled the 
expenditures much beyond their ordinary limits. The last tax was as 
small as has been voted at any time in ten years past, and that too inclu- 
sive of the appropriation of 1000$ for the repairs of Highways, while at 
the same time an unlooked for expenditure of nearly 1000$ was to be 
provided for from these diminished resources the extent of which this 
was accomplished proves the Judgement and care with which the affairs 
of the town are managed, and afford good evidence that the current 
expences have rather fallen short than exceeded their usual amount. 



1284 


81 


283 


53 


893 


42 


975 


91 


319 


23 


30 


25 


108 


58 


605 


59 


155 


91 



Meeting, May 7, 1838. 3 

It is not to be concealed that the expences of the poor have been 
increasing till they amount to more than double what they were in 1830, 
but this increase appears to be unavoidable and there is no prospect of 
this being much less under the present system of providing for their 
support, — whether any better system can be devised would seem to be a 
matter of serious consideration for the town. 

With respect to the time and manner of collecting and assessing the 
taxes as well as the period for closing and auditing the town account-; 
and reporting thereon, it has long since been manifest to this committee 
that some change was requisite, but as much diversity of opinion exists 
upon the subject and it has been introduced as one of the leading objects 
of this meeting, it would seem unnecessary perhaps premature in this 
committee to report further upon it. 

In view of the foregoing statement of finances and other circumstances 
your committee present to you the following estimate of a Tax necessary 
to defray the demands which will be presented in the year ensuing. 

Est i m at k. 

Outstanding debts 400 

Support of the Poor ........ 625 

Education 1000 

Repairs of Highways 1000 

Other repairs 200 

Town Officers Salary, Stationary 400 

County & Needham taxes G20 

Assessing & collecting taxes 125 

4370 
deduct for income 170 



to be raized by Tax 4200 

Your committee cannot close this report without the declaration that 

they find the books of the two Treasurers faithfully kept, and their 

accounts all amply avouchered and in good order and the expression of 

their opinion that the thanks of the town are especially due to Mr. Oliver 

Whyte, late Town treasurer, for the faithful manner in which he has so 

long performed the duties which he has now relinquished, — all which is 

respectfully offered by 

Charles Wild, "i .-, 
Ebenr. Heath,.} ^mmittee. 

The committee chosen in 1836 to superintend repairing 
the Road in the south part of the Town, report as follows : — 

The amount expended in 183(> amounted to 357. ^ $, but the Avail being 
not all removed that year the road could not be compleated. The com- 
missioners were called upon and they examimed the road, — as the wal[ 
had not been moved according to order they did not accept the road as 
compleated at that time. 



4 Brookline Town Records. 

The Inhabitants of Newton and vicinity wishing to have a superior 
road to any in the region requested the Commissioners last spring to 
revisit the road, they did so and your committee waited upon them and 
received further directions respecting the work to be done. 

The Commissioners thought at that time to lay out about one hundred 
dollars more would be sufficient to put the road in good repair,— this 
sum was found insufficient, the amount expended last year was $170.58, 
the work was done under the immediate superintendence of your com- 
mittee in the most economical manner they could possibly devise. The 
Commissioners were again called upon to examine the road — they said 
they would attend to it, that your committee need not give themselves 
any further uneasiness respecting it, they further added that they think 
the road is in excellent order and that the sum annually raized to repair 
that road properly expended will keep it in better repair than any road in 
town similarly located. 

In behalf of your Committee, 

A. W. Goddard. 

.$527.64. 



Your committee chosen last year to examine the road above Mr. 
Benjamin White's and make such repairs as they thought proper, ask 
leave to Report, your Committee did examine the road and were of 
opinion that the expence to widen and straiten that road as suggested by 
a previous committee was too great a sum to lay out for the trifling 
advantage the Town would receive. The length of road to be straitened 
and widened is twenty-five rods, the least expence would be 200 dollars. 
the chief expence would be to dig away the bank and lay the wall. Your 
committee were of opinion that the Town ought not to lay the wall that 
it is not customary for towns to build the wall in similar cases they 
therefore concluded to cut the bushes in the road and mend the road, 
which is all your committee thought proper to do. 

In behalf of your committee, 

A. W. Goddard. 



Novem. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled on the twelvth day of Novem- 
ber, 1838, to give in their votes for Governor, Lieut. -Gov- 
ernor, Senators & Counsellors, Representative to Congress 
and Representative to the State legislature, and also to 
choose a Moderator and see what the town will do with the 
fire Engine. 

For Governor : 

EdAvard Everett had Ninty votes. 
Marcus Morton had Forty-four. 



Meeting, December 3, 1838, 

For Lieut. -Governor : 

George Hull had Xiuty votes. 
Theodore Sedgwick had Forty-four. 

For Senators and Counsellors : 

Thomas French had Eighty-five votes. 
Samuel G. Goodrich had Seventy-six. 
Joseph L. Richardson had Eighty-five. 



Benjn. P. Williams 


" Forty-four 


Asa Pickering 


" Forty-five. 


Benjn. V. French 


" Forty-four 


Lewis Fisher 


" Five. 


Lord Rockland 


" one. 


John Buggies 


' ; six. 


James Richardson 


" two. 



For Representative to Congress : 

William S. Hastings had Ninty-four votes. 
Alexander H. Everett had Forty. 

Fur Representative to the General Court : 
First trial no choice. 

Second trial Thomas Griggs had sixty-three votes and was chosen. 
Silas Pierce had thirty-rive. 
Seth T. Thayer twelve. 
Scattering seven. 

Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator, &c. 

A committee of nine chosen to recommend what should 
be done respecting the Fire Engine, and report at an 
adjourned meeting. The Committee chosen were the Select- 
men, Thomas Seaverns, George Stoddard, Dan'l Sanderson, 
Tho. Tilden, A. W. Goddard, & David Coolidge. 

The meeting was then adjourned for three weeks at 3 
o'clock in the afternoon to receive the Report of the Com- 
mittee. 



Decem. 3, 1838. At an adjourned meeting from the 
12th of November, Mr. Samuel Philbrick was chosen 
Moderator. 

The committee made their Report recommending the pro- 
curing a New Engine which was accepted, But so few attended 
this meeting, It was recommended that the Selectmen call a 
meeting for the purpose of having a more general attendance. 



6 BrooMine Town Records. 

The committee chosen the 12th November to examine into the situation 
of the Fire Engine have attended to that duty and make the following 
report, viz. : That it is advisable in their opinion to purchase a New 
Engine their reasons are as follows, first according to the best informa- 
tion, the present one does not answer as a suctiou Engine, secondly, that 
it is necessary to have a suction Engine in this place as it would be difficult 
in many places to supply it with water without one, thirdly, that Brook- 
line ought to own one independent of Eoxbury, as Brookline has to be 
at the whole expense of manning and keeping it in order and are obliged 
to attend to all their fires, and fourthly to refit it as a suction Engine 
would be attended with considerable expence and Roxbury would still 
retain their share in it. 

For these reasons they think it advisable to purchase a new one and 
let the old one remain until the two towns can agree to dispose of it. 
Your committee have made enquiries respecting the expence of a new 
one and find that one can be obtained with all suitable apparatus for the 
sum of 850$, made by W. & C. Hunneman, warranted if it did not prove 
of suitable dimensions to exchange it for one that is at any time by 
putting the paint in as good order as when delivered and paying the 
difference between the first cost. 

Charges Stearns, Jr., 
Reubin Hunting, 
David Cooijdge, 
A. W. Goddard, 
G. Stoddard, 

JOHN W. Bass. 
Thomas Tilden, 
Thomas Seaverns. 



1838, Decem. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brook- 
line legally warned and assembled December 12, 1838, 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator, when the 
Town 

Voted, To procure a new Engine with the necessary 
apparatus. 

Voted, That a committee of Three be appointed to carry the 
above vote into effect. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be the Committee for that 
purpose. 

O. Whyte, 

Town Clk. 



Meeting, March 4, 1839. 



1839. 

January 7th. The Selectmen met at the Post Office 
and made the following list of State Paupers : 

George Thompson, about 63 years of age, born in England, 
came to this state in 1802, became chargeable May. 1835, to 
1st January L839, 365 days (5 7 Cts . . . . 25 55 

Ann Potter, 10 years, Brookline, L828 . . 365 days 

George P. Washington, 1 year, unknown. 1 January 

1838 to 1839 365 

730 (» I Cts 29 20 



s.-, I 7.". 



1839, March. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brook- 
line legally warned and assembled March 4, 1839, for the 
choice of Town Officers and other business, — 

Deacon Thomas Grijr<?s was chosen Moderator. 



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Oliver Whyte, Town Clerk. Sworn. 

Charles Stearns. ,Junr., \ 

John W. Bass, & I Selectmen >.<: Assessors. 

James Robinson in place of J 

Reubin Hunting who is leaving town for Brighton. 
Artemas Newell. Collector and Treasurer. 
Doct. John Pierce, Rev. Wm. II. Shailer. ^ 

Dea. John Robinson, Dea. Elijah Corey, y General School Committee. 
and the Selectmen. j 

^.^Thayer. N ^ tl jJ )iStrk M Prudential School 

littee. 



Hugh M Sanderson, & Middle } Committ* 

Samuel Hills, South District J 

Elisha Stone, A. Newell. Surveyors of Wood. &c. 

George Murdoch, Nath'l M. Weeks, Fence vieAvers. 

David Coolidge, Otis Withington, ] 

Sam'l Philbrick, Sam'l Pettes - , 

John Dustin, Joseph White, j Feild driver-. 

Geo. Craft, Tim. H. Child, & 

J. W.Warren, J 

John Robinson. J. C. Clark, "j 

Dan'l Pierce. Charles Stearns, [ Firewards. 

and James Robinson, 
John Dustin. Pound Keeper. 



Broohline Town Records. 



Charles Stearns, Junr., 1 North District " 

Seth T. Thayer, 2 

Samuel Philbrick, 3 " 

John W Bass, 1 Middle Surveyors 

Henry Pettes, 2 " 

Joseph White, 3 " of 

A. W. Goddard, 1 South 

Caleb Craft, Juur., 2 " j Highways. 

John W. Warren, 3 " 

John Hay den, Eastern turnpike 

Daniel Pierce, Western do. 

Doct. Charles Wild, ~\ Committee 

])ea. Elijah Corey, & > on 

Ebenezer Heath, J Town Accounts. 

Elisha Stone chosen Constable. 

John Bullard had sixty-nine votes for County Treasurer. 

Ebenezer Seaver had one vote for do. 



Voted, That the Eeport of the Auditors on Town Accounts 
be accepted. 

Voted, That Four Thousand five hundred dollars be raized 
for expences of the Town the Current year. 

Voted, That One Thousand dollars of the money voted to 
be raized be expended in repairing the highways within the 
Town, and that the same shall be assessed upon Polls and 
Estates of the Inhabitants resident & non-resident as other 
town charges are assessed, and be collected as other town 
taxes are collected, nine hundred dollars of which to be 
divided between the several highway districts in the same 
proportions as was ordered last year, and that one hundred 
dollars be left with the Selectmen to be applied at their 
discretion, and that the Selectmen shall be authorized to 
draw orders in favor of the several Surveyors for such part 
and no more of each District's portion as said Surveyors shall 
have lawfully expended in repairing the roads. 

Voted, That the money belonging to the Two Parishes, 
being the proceeds from the sale of wood from the Needham 
wood lot, be divided between the two Parishes in Brookline 
(as per vote 2d page following). 

Voted, That a committee consisting of Dea. Elijah Corey, 
Daniel Sanderson, and Thomas Tilden do examine the state 
of the Middle and South school houses and report at the 
next Town Meeting the probable expence of repairing the 
same. 



Meeting, March 4, 1839. 9 

Voted, To accept the report on the school fund as follows : 

By a vote of the town the Trustees of the School Fund were requested 
to report annually the amount of said fund and to whom loaned with the 
security for the same. They have attended to that Duty and make the 
following report. 

To Theophilus Dame, Note and Mortgage on House & Land ) 

in Brighton with Policy of Insurance . . . .1 435 84 

Edward Hall, Note & Mortgage on his Real Estate in this -> 

Town with a Policy of insurance j 204 53 

Charles Hastings, Note & Mortgage on land and buildings in i 

Brighton with a policy of insurance . . . .1 305 00 

Samuel Brown, Note and Mortgage on land and buildings ) 

in Boston with policy of Insm-ance . . . . / 811 11 

Daniel Kingsbury, Note *.<: Mortgage on land in Newton ) 

witli policy of insurance I 1225 00 

Dea. John Robinson, Note & Mortgage on House land audi 

Tauyard in Brighton with policy of Insurance . . i 1520 73 

Total sum of said fund $4502 21 



"We are persuaded that the above security is satisfactory 

Charles Stearns, Jr., | 
Daniel Sanderson, 
James Robinson, t , , °i „ , 

Reubin Hunting, \ School Fund. 



Trustees 



Voted, To accept the Report on the New Engine, Brook- 
line, as follows : — 

The undersigned having been appointed a committee at a Town meeting 
holden December 12th, to procure a new Fire Engine and necessary 
apparatus, having attended [to] the same, state that they have received 
proposals from several Engine manufacturers. 

Your committee were requested by several members of the Engine 
Company to purchase one of Mr. Hunneman's manufacture. 

After having noticed Engines of the several different constructions in 
operation they saw no reason why their request should not be granted. 
Your committee upon these considerations proceeded to contract with 
Mr. Hunneman to furnish a new Fire Engine and necessary apparatus 
to be built of the best material and finished in a thorough and workman- 
like manner for the sum of nine hundred dollars, to be finished by the 
first Monday in February. The Engine being delivered was tried in 
various ways by the Engine Company and performed in a manner which 
we are pleased to learn was satisfactory to the company and likewise to 
your committee with the exception of the leading Hose which are to be 
exchanged and such given in return as shall be acceptable. 

Charles Stearns, Jr. 

Reubin Hunting, \ Committee. 

John W. Bass. 



10 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be authorized and direct- 
ed to collect the proceeds of the sale of wood from the 
ministerial wood lot in Needham, it having been loaned to 
Mr. Daniel Colby of Boston as per his Note and Mort- 
gage and the same with the Interest that may be due 
thereon to divide and pay over in equal parts to the 
treasurers of both Parishes taking their seperate receipts for 
the same. 

Voted, That a committee of five, Samuel Philbrick, Dea. 
Timothy Corey, Moses Jones, Doct. Wild, Joshua C. Clark, 
examine the old Engine and Report at next meeting with 
recommendation how it shall be disposed of. 

Voted, That the Town Hall cannot be granted for the use 
of a private school. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee with Doctor 
Shurtlitf & Seth T. Thayer to remonstrate against the prayer 
of the Aqueduct Corporation as follows : 

Whereas, There is pending in the Legislature a petition from the 
Aqueduct Corporation in Boston for an Act to empower said corporation 
to divert the brooks of water which pass through this Town from their 
natural course, and whereas the streams are so small they can be but as 
a drop in the Bucket in comparison with the wants of the City, yet are of 
immense importance to the public in another point of view as they pass 
through a great proportion of the town, crossing the roads in several 
places, affording watering places (for the Inhabitants and to the travel- 
ling community) of which there are none other between the city and the 
upper part of Newton. 



It is therefore Voted, That the Selectmen, Doct. Shurtlift* 
and Seth T. Thayer be a committee to present a remon- 
strance in behalf of the Town against the said petition being 
granted, and that our Representative be requested to urge 
upon the Legislature that no act be granted that will deprive 
this Town and the public at large of these important natural 
rights. 

Voted, That this meeting stands adjourned till the first 
Monday in April next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 



Meeting, March 4, 1839. 



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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TOWN ACCOUNTS. 

The committee [appointed?] by the Town to examine into and 
Report upon the accounts of the Town treasurer and the 
Treasurer of the School Fund of the Town of Brookline 
for the Year ending March 1, 1839, Respectfully represent 
that from a full and careful investigation of the subjects 
submitted to them they rind that the Treasurer of the 
School Fund has received 

of which $525 was from bond & mortgage redeemed, but in 
course of the year reinvested ...... 

and he has paid balance due to himself last year . 2 68 

expense of office 1 25 

leaving in his hands a balance of 



$726 06 



525 


00 


3 


93 


197 


l."> 



r26 06 



Mr. Oliver Whyte, the former Town Treasurer, --'nice the last 
audit and previous to delivery of the Books to the present 
Treasurer, had received ....... 

of which he had paid out to order of Selectmen, cur- ) 

rent expences, &c J 218 66 

and he paid over to the present Treasurer . . .">:'> 38 



$272 04 



the whole tax levied for the year 1838 was . . 4281 93 

from which deduct bad debts, errors & losses 42 75 

balance ami. unpaid ...... 631 

leaves amount of Taxes for the year actually received 

Mr. Xewell's additional receipts as Treasurer for the year: 

From (). Whyte 

Proceeds of hay scale ........ 

Rects. from State bounty & Military ..... 

Interest of Parish Fund ....... 

Borrowed for Use of Town ...... 

of this amount he has paid to order of Selectmen 

and leaving in his hands at the close of accounts . 

Thus it appears that there has been paid out for the purposes 

of the town by Mr. Whyte 

By School Fund Treasurer ....... 

and by Town Treasurer ........ 

making grand total ........ 

of this there has gone to payment of permanent debts 025 80 
pay of demands to be refunded, such as State ) 

bounty, Military and Parish . . | 91 02 

Leaves the amount paid for the current expenses \ 

of the Year ...... j 

This money has been devoted to the following purposes, viz. : 
For support of the Poor ....... 

Purposes of Education, Instruction ..... 

Repairs of school houses 

General repairs Town House, burial grounds, &c. 

County and Needham taxes ....... 

Repairs of Highways . . . . 

Abatement of taxes ........ 

Engine department Current Expenses . . 153 14 

New Engine 900 00- 

Town officers, levying, assessing and collecting taxes, 1 
Salaries, Stationery, legal advice, &c. j 



2 04 



4182 87 

53 38 
58 03 

41 02 

50 00 

1000 00 



5385 
4916 



$468 60 



218 66 
3 93 

4916 70 
5139 29 



710 82 

84422 47 

618 44 

786 35 

33 79 

120 90 

511 01 

987 60 

16 10 

- 1053 14 

295 14 

$4422 47 



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Broohline Town Records. 



Your committee have the satisfaction to report that they find the 
affairs of the town in a favorable condition and that notwithstanding the 
expence of important repairs and a new Engine under a tax of less than 
usual amount the permanent [debt?] of the town is short of 650$. The new 
arrangement as to the Period of collecting taxes appears thus far to have 
worked favorably and the amount to have been promptly collected, the 
delinquencies are without precedent small, being by lapses, errors & 
remissions, only $42.70, and good balances unpaid but $6.31, whether 
this be attributable to change in the mode and period of collection or to 
the efficiency of the Treasurer carrying the closer regulations into 
prompt execution, it seems but the duty as it is the pleasure of the Com- 
mittee to bear testimony to the most perfect accuracy with which the 
Books have been kept, the very great degree of completeness in closing 
and settling all accounts due or payable up to the very date of the exami- 
nation and the punctual tender of the balance on hand in cash to the 
Committee. Depending on the continuance of the same faithful efforts 
on the part of the Selectmen & Treasurer, your Committee [think?] that 
the payment of all the Debts of every description as well as of important 
and extensive repairs Avhich will probably be found necessary for the 
southern school houses may be well accomplished by a Tax based on the 
following Estimate, viz. : — 



Estimate. 

Payment of permanent debt ..... 

" of outstanding debts 

" County & Needham taxes .... 

Support of the Poor 

" of Schools 

Repairs of Highways 

" of Buildings, &c 

Engine 

Assessing & Collecting taxes ..... 
Town officers, stationery & contingencies 

The following resources will in part meet this, viz. 
Balance in the hands of Town Treasurer 
of School Treasurer 

Proceeds of Hayscales 

Due from Commonwealth 



650 
500 
600 
600 
1000 
1000 
500 
150 
125 
200 



468 00 
197 

80 
80 



5325 00 



825 00 



$4500 00 
All which is Respectfully submitted by 

Charles Wild, ] 

Elijah Corky, \ Committee. 

Ebexr. Heath, J 



The meeting was adjourned to the first Monday in April 
at 3 o'clock p. m. 



Meeting, April 1, 1839. 13 

1839, April 1st. At an adjourned meeting of the inhab- 
itants of Brookline from the 4th March, — 

Deacon Thomas Griggs, Moderator. 

The committee appointed to enquire into the situation of 

the Engine Norfolk made their report which was accepted 

and is as follows : — 

The committee appointed by the Town of Brookline at their annual 
meeting in March to examine the circumstances attending the purchase 
of the Fire Engine Norfolk and ascertain what disposition can best be 
made of it, having attended to the subject ask nave to report, — That 
from the list of subscribers which has been found it appears that in the 
year 1828 the sum of 325 Dollars was subscribed by the Inhabitants of 
Brookline and 150 Dollars by the inhabitants of Roxbury, making a ^iim 
total of 475 dollars for the purpose of Purchasing a new Engine and 
erecting an Engine house. It also appears that the Engine Norfolk was 
accordingly purchased for the sum of 400 dollars, 30 dollars of which 
Avas paid from the sale of an old Engine, leaving a balance of 370 dollars, 
which deducted from the amount subscribed leaves the amount of 105 
dollars to pay for building the Engine house. It further appears evident 
that the subscribers intended the Engine for the use & benefit of the 
Towns of Brookline & Roxbury without reserving any claim of individ- 
ual interest ; altho no entry on our records appears to have been made of 
any formal presentment of said Engine to the respective towns, yet we 
find an appropriation was made by the Town of Brookline in 1829 of 50 
dollars for the purpose of aiding jointly with Roxbury in providing 
Buckets and hose for said Engine, and subsequently expences to consid- 
erable amount for alterations and repairs have been paid by the respec- 
tive Towns, under whose joint and seperate care and direction it has 
been always held. Your committee believing that if said Engine should 
be still kept stationed at the village it may be useful to both Towns and 
that it can be readily manned by a voluntary company from both Towns, 
have concluded to recommend the relinquishment of said Engine entirely 
to the Town of Roxbury as long as said Town will keep it in good repair 
and a supply of men can be found to voluntarily work it and unite with 
the Brookline Engine Company in extinguishing fires in both towns, pro- 
vided that said Engine shall be kept located at the Punch Bowl Village 
(so called). The Town of Roxbury having adjourned their annual meet- 
ing to the same day at which our meeting is adjourned Avithout taking 
any action on this subject, your committee have had no opportunity of 
conference thereon with said Town. They would therefore respectfully 
recommend that a committee be appointed Avith authority to make to the 
Town of Roxbury a tender of said Engine on the above named conditions, 
and report the Result at a future meeting, all Avhich is Respectfully sub- 
mitted. 

Brookline, April 1, 1839. 

Saml. Philbrick, "I 

Timothy Cokey, \ Committee. 

Joshua C. Clark, J 



14 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the same Committee call on the Town of 
Roxbury to ascertain if they will accept the proposition as 
stated in the above report. 

Voted, That the Report of the committee on the South 
school house be accepted. 

Voted, That the same committee carry the improvement 
recommended into effect. 

The committee chosen at the Town meeting - in March last for the pur- 
pose of examining the school houses beg leave to report. 

That after several meetings and deliberating together we have finally 
agreed to recommend as follows, that the Putterham school house (so 
called) have the back end carried back eight feet and that the sides and 
the roof be made to correspond with the other part, and also to put in 
two windows to correspond with the others and all new seats such as 
we have seen at Dorchester. Expence estimated by Mr. Stone 125 dollars. 

Elijah Corey, | 

Dam,. Sanderson, >- Committee. 

Tho. Tilden, j 

Voted, That a committee of three men be appointed, with 
authority^to repair the Middle district school house where it 
now stands, or to remove the same or build a new one at 
their discretion on such a lot as Thomas H. Perkins and 
others will provide to the satisfaction of the committee in 
exchange for the old lot, provided said Perkins and others 
will pay the Town Six hundred dollars for exchanging lots, 
and that Daniel Sanderson, Thomas Tilden and Samuel Phil- 
brick be that Committee. 

REPORT 0¥ SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 

Bead in Town Meeting by the Moderator. 

The School Committee of the Town of Brookline would respectfully 
submit the following as their report for the year ending March 4, 1839. 

Soon after their appointment the committee resolved to visit the 
several schools during the summer session individually assigning a par- 
ticular month to each member in order that their duties might be 
efficiently and faithfully performed as the laws of this state require. In 
their occasional visits during that session they found nothing in any of 
the schools that was particularly objectionable but much that was worthy 
of commendation. At the semi-annual examination it was evident that 
the school in the centre of the Town had suffered materially from a want 
of punctual attendance on the part of the scholars, an evil which tho 
much to be regretted the Coram, believe difficult if not impossible to 
remedy. The primary school they found in a very nourishing condition 



Meeting, April 1, 1839. 15 

giving abundant evidence of the faithfulness on the part of the Teacher 
L well as diligence on the part of the scholars. Dnring the ^ niter 
Session the schools have all been in a prosperous condition, the severa 
districts have it is believed, been singularly fortunate in obtaining well 
qualified instructors, and probably the Town as a whole has not for a 
number of years been more highly favored in this respect. 

The committee have made no alteration in regard to Books except the 
introduction of Smith's Productive Geography in the place of Olney s and 
Malte Bran's. They have at present no suggestions to make m respect 
to any particular improvements, believing that no one method of proceed- 
in., can be adapted to all places, and that the general course which has 
been pursued the past year is well suited to the wants ol this 1 own 

The committee however will ever be ready to listen to any suggestions 
upon the best method of improvement in regard to the schools generally 
or to any recommendations of particular books, which the Board ol 
Education may see fit to give and such suggestions and recommendations 
shall receive the attention which in the opinion of the Com. their impor- 
tance may demand. ^ ^ ^^ ,.,„„•,,„„„ f the b'ch. C 

Wm. 11. Sham Secretary. r>. whyte, Town Clerk. 



1839 Be it remembered that on the 23d day of October, 1839, we the 
subscribers being authorized as the Law directs met and proceeded to 
perambulate the boundry line between the towns of Roxbury and Brook- 
line viz. ^beginnin* at the point in the full Basin where the bounds of 
Boston. Roxbury and Brookline meet, from thence continuing the channel 
of Muddy river to the northwest corner of Lemuel Foster s land to the 
stone monument marked KB, from thence to a stone monument on 
Washington street marked KB, from thence to a stone marked RB, lying 
in the wall near the dividing line between the land of Oliver Whyte and 
Samuel Philbrick, from thence to a stone marked KB lying and confined 
in a willow tree near the end of the wall by the edge of the swamp 
belonging to the heirs of Will'm Wyman, from thence to a stone marked 
KB lying on a rock in the wall between the land belonging to the heirs 
of William Wvman and John Tillsou, thence to a stone marked RB lying 
in the wall by a rock in Thomas Wyman's pasture, thence to a large stone 
marked KB lying in the wall or fence between the lands of Thomas Lee 
and Joseph Curtis, from thence to a stone monument marked KB on 
Perkins street, thence to a stone set in the ground on the hill in Captain 
Cooke's land, from thence to a white oak tree standing in the wall between 
the land of Mrs. White and Joseph Goddard's land marked RB, thence 
by said wall to a stone monument marked RB, standing in land of B. 
Lincoln, thence to a monument marked RB at the corner of Alvm Loker s 
lane, thence to a stone marked RB, lying on the wall on the east side of 
the end of Loker's lane, from thence to a stone marked RB lying on a 
large rock between the land of Willard A. Humphrey and land belonging 
to Charles Stearns, Jr., from thence to a stone monument marked RB at 
the corner of the wall between the late William Baker and Mr. U ood- 



16 Brookline Town Records. 

ward's land, from thence to a large stone marked RB in A. D. Weld's 
meadow, thence to a rock marked RB and heap of stones in A. D. Weld's 
pasture, thence to a large stone on the rocks in land of Mr. Billings' 
marked RB, thence to a white oak tree marked RB standing in the Avail, 
thence across the swamp to its westerly edge to a stone monument 
marked RNB which forms the corner bounds between Roxbury, New- 
ton & Brookline Line, all of which bounds we have agreed to and renewed 
the day and year before mentioned. 

Elijah Lewis, Charles Stearns, Jrx., 

Nath'l 8. Prentiss, James Robinson, 

Isaac Davis, 0. Whyte, 

Agent* for Eoxbury. Agents for Brookline. 

Be it remembered that on the Gth day of November, 1839, we the sub- 
scribers being authorized as the Law directs, met and proceeded to 
perambulate the boundary line between the Towns of Newton and Brook- 
line, viz. : — beginning at a stone monument marked BNB in John Kings- 
bury's meadow, and running to a stone marked NB on the wall at the 
end of the old lane, thence to a stone marked NB on the end of the old 
wall, thence to a heap of stones in a bunch of maples about 3 feet from a 
fence, one marked NB, thence to an abutment-stone at the corner of the 
wall in Joseph Lee's land marked NB, thence to a stone marked NB on 
the wall on the highway by land of Samuel Pettes, thence to a stone 
monument marked NB on the southerly side of the Worcester turnpike 
by land of Sam'l Pettes, thence to a stone marked NB in the wall on the 
northerly side of the road near the house of A. Hide, thence to a stone 
marked NB on the wall by Eben Crafts' land, thence to a stone marked 
NB in the wall near Capt. Clark's land, thence to a stone marked NB at 
the end of the wall near stake meadow, thence to a stake and stones 
marked NB in stake meadow, which bounds make a corner, thence to a 
stone marked NB on the wall by land of T. Hyde about 12 rods from the 
last mentioned bounds, thence to a stone monument marked NB in the 
Highway opposite the end of the wall, thence to a stone in the wall 
marked NB on the south side of the Road near the saw mill, thence to a 
heap of stones on a large rock in Caleb Craft's pasture one marked NB, 
thence to a stone monument marked RNB near the westerly edge of 
troublesome swamp which forms the corner bounds between Roxbury, 
Newton and Brookline line which bounds we have agreed to and renewed 
this day. 

Charles Stearns, Jun., Luther Paul, 

0. Whyte, Otis Trowbridge, 

James Robinson, Agents for Newton. 

Agents for Brookline. 

Be it remembered that on the fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1839, 
We the subscribers being authorized as the Law directs met and proceeded 
to perambulate the boundary line between the towns of Brookline and 
Brighton, viz. : — beginning at the mouth of the smelt Brook where it 
empties into Charles river, thence by said brook to where it intersects 



Meeting, JVbvember 11, 1839. 17 

the western avenue, thence to a rock marked £B by the edge of the 
swamp near the high land and about thirty rods distant from the house 
occupied by Horace King, thence to a stone marked £B set in the land 
belonging to the heirs of Moses Griggs near the end of the old stone 
Avail, thence to a stone monument marked B.B. on the south side of the 
great road, thence to a stone marked £3 set in the wall and land of David 
( 'oolidge with [within?] one foot of a large walnut tree, thence to a stone 
monument marked B.B. on the great road at the corner of the late 
Jonathan Livermore's lane, thence to a stone marked EB set in the ground 
of Timothy Corey opposite to Horace Pierce's land, thence to a stone 
marked B.B. set in the wall at the corner of the heirs of Penniman and 
Charles Dana and Timothy Corey's land, thence to a stone set in the Avail 
marked B.B. on the westerly side of the lane nearly opposite Joseph 
White's house, from thence to a stone monument set in the ground of 
John Kingsbury's meadow marked N.B.B. which forms the corner bounds 
between Newton, Brooklinc and Brighton. 

Chaklks Stearns, Jr., Horace Haynks. 

James Robinson, Geo. Livermork, 

o. White, Agents for Brighton. 

Agents for Brookline. 



Nov. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline legally 
warned and assembled November 11, 1839, to give in their 
votes for Governor, Lieut. -Governor, Senators and Coun- 
sellors and Representitive to the State Legislature : 

Edward Everett had seventy-eight votes -i 

V for Governor. 



Marcus Morton had fifty-four votes 



Nathan Willis had fifty-three votes 

George Hull had eighty votes [-for Lieut. -Governor. 



Seth Sprague had one vote J 

For Senators and Counsellors : 

Joseph L. Richardson had seventy-six votes. 

James M. Robbins •' seventy-seven. 

Appleton Howe " seventy-five. 

Benj. P. Williams • fifty-five. 

Bradford L. Wales " fifty-four. 

Lucas Pond " fifty-one. 

Samuel E. Sewell " one. 

A. M. W. Worthington " one. 

William Jackson " one. 

Lewis Fisher " one. 

William Ellis " one. 

Jona. Doit " one. 
2 



18 Brookline Toxon Records. 

For Representative : 

1st trial. Thomas Griggs had fifty-seven votes. 
James Bartlet •• forty-three. 
Marshal Stearns " seventeen. 
Bela Stoddard '• one. 
Samuel Pettes '• one. 

2 trial. Thomas Griggs had fifty-seven votes. 

James Bartlet •• forty-four. 

Marshal Stearns '• sixteen. 

Doct. Shurtleft* " one. 

Silas Pierce ' ; one. 

3 trial. Thomas Griggs had fifty -two votes. 

James Bartlet '• forty-four. 
Marshal Stearns " eighteen. 
Silas Pierce " one. 

No choice being made it was voted that the meeting be 
indefinitely postponed. 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was then chosen Moderator, & a 
vote passed that a committee of report at March 

Meeting the necessity and advantage of having a singing- 
school supported by the Town. 

O. White, Town Clk. 



1840, February. The Selectmen met at Mr. Newells 3d 
February and made a list of Paupers. 

The number of persons relieved Eight, legal settlement in 
Town Six. 

State Paupers in town two. 

Foreigners (American) one, from England one. 

Weekly cost of supporting Paupers Ten dollars T 8 ^. 

Made dependant in consequence of Intemperance Five. 

Total amount of expense of Paupers one year Five hundred 
sixty-two dollars. Received from the State Treasury Forty 
doll- 1 - 5 - 

became 
age born in came to this state chargeable up to 

George Thompson. 64 yrs. England. 1802. 1835 1840. 

Ann Potter. 11 years. Brookline. 1828 1840. 



Meeting, March 2, 1840. 19 

1840. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled March 2, 1840, for the choice 
of Town Officers, &c. — 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator. 

< (liver Whyte. Town Clerk. 
Charles Stearns, Junr., ^ Selectmen 
James Robinson, v and 

Benjamin B. Davis, j Assessors. 
Artemas Newell, Colector and Treasurer. 
Doct. John Tierce, ) , , 

Rev. Will. H. Shaler. [ a , ( ; , ' neral 
Doct. Cha. Wild. J School Committee. 

David Coolidge, North District ") ^ , . , 

Daniel Sanderson, Middle - , * ™~ 5ima . 1 .. 

Samuel Hills, South j Sch ° o1 Committee. 

Charles Stearns, Junr., Daniel Sanderson, \ Trustees of 
Abijah W. (ioddard, James Robinson, J School Fund. 

Artemas Newell, "I ,,, r , „ 

Elisha Stone. } S^veyors of Vv ood, ^c. 

A w .Goddard, | viewers. 

.Marshal Stearns, j 

James Bartlet, Samuel A. Robinson, 

Caleb Clark, George dishing, Jos. L. White, I Field 

Charles Pulsifer, Thin. Goodenow. (Drivers. 

Samuel Hills, Simon Warren, J 

.Marshal Stearns, James Bartlet, 1 p? rewar fl s 

Seth T. Thayer, j 

George dishing. Tound Keeper. 

Doct. Charles Wild, 1 ^ „ .„ 

Fbene/er Heath L Committee on 

i.ixnc/ei neatn, . T Accounts. 

Dea. Elijah Corey, ) 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 

Charles Stearns, Junr., 1st North district ] $100 Surveyors 

Dea. Elijah Corey, 2 " \ 170 of 

Caleb Clark, 3 " " J 80 Highways. 

Charles Pulsifer, 1st Middle District .$90 "] 

Thomas Quimby, 2 " " 20 

Daniel Sanderson, 3 " " 30 

Chancy Woodward, 1st South " 60 

A. W. "Goddard, 2 " " 80 

John W. Warren, 3 " " 120 

Hugh M. Sandburn, Eastern Turnpike 160 

Daniel Pierce, Western Do. 90 

John Bullard had fifty-two votes for County Treasurer. 



Surveyors 

of 
Highways. 



Voted, That the Report of the Auditors of Town Accts. be 
accepted. 

Voted, That Three Thousand dollars be raized for the 
expence of the Town the current year beside the Highway 
Tax. 



20 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That one thousand dollars be raized for repairing 
the highways in this town the ensuing year — and that the 
same shall be assessed upon the Polls and Estates of the 
inhabitants residents and non residents as other town charges 
assessed and shall be collected as other town taxes are col- 
lected, and shall be divided between the several highway 
districts in the same proportions as the divission of last year, 
and that the several Highway surveyors shall present their 
accounts of repairs to the Selectmen for settlement and that 
no account be allowed that does not conform to the require- 
ments of the Law in regard to the time when the labour is 
performed and that is not satisfactory to the Selectmen. 

Voted, That the Treasurer and Collector receive two and 
one half per cent on the tax collected for the ensuing 
year. 

Voted, That the Report of the School Committee be 
accepted and that the report be printed at the expence of 
the town and a copy distributed to each family in town. 

Voted, That the School Committee be clothed with power 
to direct the management of all the schools in town with 
respect to Books, &c, and that they give names to the 
different school districts. 

Voted, To accept the report of the Committee on the 
school fund. 

Voted, That the thanks of the town be presented to those 
members of the committee who have not been re-elected. 

Voted, That the subject of the committee on singing- 
schools be dismissed. 

Voted, That a committee of nine persons, viz., Seth T. 
Thayer, David Coolidge, Daniel Sanderson, Samuel Hills, 
Charles Stearns, James Robinson, Benjamin Davis, Abijah 
W. Goddard and Thomas Tilden be added to the general 
School Committee, to see if any improvement can be made in 
the town schools. 

Adjourned for two weeks at three o'clock. 



Meeting, March 2, 1840. 21 

The committee to whom by the vote of the town was intrusted the 
duty of auditing the accounts of the treasurer of the Town of Brookline 
and of the school fund belonging to the town hereby report that they 
have performed the duty assigned to them and find the following to be 
the state of accounts for the past year : 

Mr. Artemas Newell, Town treasurer, had a tax committed to 

his care for collection of $1524 53 

from which abatements were necessarily made of . . 112 92 



$4411 61 



leaving the whole tax legally assessed of which every i 

cent was collected of | 

He has collected from old debts, back taxes, Hay scales and -v 

other sources V *>38 94 

which with the balance in his hands at last credit J 468 60 



making him accountable to the town in the total sum . 5519 15 

•of this he has disbursed to the orders of the Selectmen . 5049 60 



Leaving in his hands a ballance of $469 55 



Deacon Thomas (iriggs. treasurer of the school fund. has 

collected the interest of the whole fund . . . 270 06 

back interest . . . 39 21 

which with balance in his hands at last audit . . . 197 13 



making his Gro. Amt. S506 40 

he has paid for stationary 1 50 

M. Curtis, salary 140 

.1. Wilson 64 205 50 



he now holds $300 90 



There has been paid therefore by the Town treasurer . . 5049 60 

school treasurer . . 205 50 



of which in payment of principal & Interest of town debt 

making current expeuces of the year 
Yiz. For purposes of Education 
Repairs of Highways 
Repairs general 

" to upper school house 
Support of Poor 
Engine .... 

County & Xeedham taxes 
Town offices .... 
Contingencies .... 



Your Committee have great satisfaction in reporting that the pecuniary 
concerns of the town are in a very prosperous condition at no time 
within the last twelve years has there been less debt or responsibility 





5255 10 


of town debt . 


1074 87 




84180 23 


993 :'.!' 




1088 39 




165 32 




."id? ."«:'> 




54.") 51 




99 86 




511 37 




233 93 




:;:, on 






4 ISO 23 



22 



Brookline Town Records. 



resting upon the town, and they believe the fact unprecedented that 
"within ten months after the last annual tax had been levied every cent of it 
(except the abatements found necessary by the statutes of the Common- 
wealth) has been paid into the treasury, every order drawn by the 
Selectmen paid, and the balance, $ 469.55, tendered in cash by the treasurer 
to your committee. Beyond the ordinary current expences of the year 
there is short of $150 due as a debt from the town, while the balance in 
the hands of the treasury, with the probable income receipts for the 
ensuing year, will exceed $ 1100.00. 

The Books and accounts have been found by your committee, kept with 
the most perfect promptness and accuracy, and they think that the 
present system of corresponding accounts between the Selectmen & town 
Treasurer with the close observance of issuing orders by that board and 
the scrupulous adherance to them by the Treasurer is productive of 
much precission and safety to the town and leave no room for improve- 
ment in the management of its concerns. 

It has been suggested by the Selectmen that the commission allowed 
to the town treasurer as collector of taxes is by no means an adequate 
compensation for his labors & sacrifice in their collection, and the 
committee cheerfully concur in the opinion that for duties so faithfully 
and punctually performed a greater recompense would be no detriment 
to the general interest. 

As a basis for the next levy of taxes we would submit the following : 



Estimate of Appropriations. 
For extinction of Town debt 
Current debts . 
Support of the Poor . 
Education . 
Repairs of Roads 

" of Buildings, etc. 
County & Needham taxes 
Assessing & collecting taxes 
Town officers & contingencies 



From this Deduct 

Balance in hands of Treasurer 
School Treasurer 
Income from Hay scales 
of school fund 



Will leave the sum necessary to be raized 
or for security 



150 00 

500 

600 
1100 
1000 

400 

650 

150 

200 

4900 



469 55 

300 90 

80 00 

270 06 



.$4000 



1100 



Respectfully submitted by 



March 2, 1840. 



Charles Wild, , 

Elijah Corey, I ^'" h ".^ 

Ebenr. Heath, ,' Co ' 



Meeting, March 16, 1840. 23 

At an adjourned meeting from the 2d of March to Mon- 
day 16 th March : 

Deacon Thomas Griggs Moderator. 

George Gushing was chosen Surveyor of the 1st Middle 
district instead of Charles Pulsifer who declined serving. 

Samuel Craft was chosen on School Committee instead of 
Doctor Charles Wild who declined serving. 

Voted, That the report of the removal and repairs of the 
South school house be accepted. 

Voted, That the report of the committee on the Fire 
Engine Norfolk be accepted. 

Voted, That the former committee on this subject be 
continued and that a proposition be made to Roxbury to 
dispose of said Engine and the proceeds be divided between 
the Towns in proportion to what each advanced for the 
purchase. 

Voted, That the Report of the committee on the Southwest 
school house and Lot be accepted. 

Voted, That the Report of the committee on Guide-boards 
be accepted. 

Voted, That the report of the committee on the improve- 
ment of schools be accepted with the reserve that the pru- 
dentials committee chosen remain the present year. 

Voted, That the present prudential committee take into 
consideration the subject of dispensing with said committee 
in future and report at next March meeting. 

Voted, That the Report of the Town treasurer with 
respect to disposal of Parish funds be accepted. 

The committee appointed by the town of lirookline at an adjournment 
of their annual meeting in April last with authority to put in repair the 
Middle or Western district school house where jt then stood or to remove 
the same or to build a new House at their discretion upon some other 
lot of land which Thos H. Perkins and others might procure and give 
in exchange for the old school house lot provided a consideration of six 
hundred dollars could be obtained for exchanging lots. 

Now ask leave to report — That after repeated conferrences and corre- 
spondence with the parties interested in having the old school house 
removed, causing a delay of several months, an exchange of school house 
lots was finally effected on the conditions above named, and a title to the 
new lot was obtained for the Town from Benjamin White and Warren 
White and delivered to the chairman of the Selectmen to be placed on 



24 Brookline Town Records. 

the county records. After repeated but unsuccessful efforts to effect a sale 
of the old school house your committee caused it to be offered at public 
Auction, but no one offering anything like its value to the town in the 
estimation of your committee it was bid off for the town, removed and 
thoroughly repaired with the best of material and workmanship. In 
doing this your committee were governed by a strict regard to the inter- 
ests of the Town, and if the amount expended in repairs should be consid- 
ered sufficient for the errection of an entire new building, your Committee 
have the satisfaction in believing the old frame superior for strength 
and duribility to any new one that could now be procured, aud that the 
building as now repaired is more valuable to the town than any building 
of the same accommodations could have been made of materials entirely 
new at the same expence. 

Cost of Repairs as Follows. 
For" advertizing and ottering house for sale .... $2 34 

For removing house, underpining same, and for diging 1 .„„ 

and stoning vault, per J. Russel's bill . . . / 
For Lumber and carting as per ('. <£ F. A. Heath's bill . . 248 00 

For labour in removing brick from walls of the house,") 

removing fence and for sundry articles of hardware, \ 33 03 

as per Mr. llaynes' bill ...... J 

For masonry in lining walls, plaistering building, making"! .„ __ 

chimney- & for brick, as per Mr. Carr's bill . . j 
For painting and glazing, as per Mr. Snow's bill 
For carpenter work, as per Mr. llaynes' bill . 
For removing stone and leveling ground around the House. ) 

as per Mr. Sanderson's bill .... 
For Stove funnel and sundry house utensils . 
For Nails, hinges & screws, as per Mr. Newell's bill 

making a total expenditure of .... 
which has been received as follows : — 
By cash received for exchange of Lots 
By ditto received from orders on Town treasurer 

859 o; 

all which is submitted for the committee, 

Sam'i. Phtjlbrick, Chairman. 
Brookline, March 2, 1840. 





50 75 
331 76 


louse. | 


10 




12 74 

23 71 




$85!) 07 


$600 00 
259 07 





The committee appointed by the town of Brookline at the adjournment 
of their annual meeting in April last to make a surrender of the Fire Engine 
Norfolk to the town of Roxbury, provided said town would keep the 
same in good repair and a voluntary company could be found to man 
and take proper care of it. respectfully ask leave to report: That your 
committee called soon after their appointment on the Selectmen of Rox- 
bury and made a tender of said Engine to them on the condition above 
named which was accepted by the said Selectmen with the proviso that 
said Engine should be kept housed without charge to them. But no 
company has yet been formed to man or take charge of said Engine and 
it remains unused and consequently in a condition of gradual decay, and 
will soon be of no value unless some disposition be made of it, All 
which is subscribed for the committee. Brookline, March 2, 1840. 

Sam'i. Philbrick, Chairman. 



Meeting, March 16, 1840. 25 

The committee appointed for the purpose for enlarging the school 
house in the Southwest district have attended to that duty and are pre- 
pared to report. 

Upon examination of the old deed given to the Town, 1777, by Joseph 
Smith of Roxbury. your committee ascertained that all the land belong- 
ing to the Town for the purpose of a school house in that place was 
twenty by thirty feet consequently the house could not be lengthened 
out in rear a single foot until we had purchased more land. The house 
was situated so near the line of two owners that avc were obliged to 
contract with both in order to accomplish our object. There being a 
small piece of land on the easterly side of the school house belonging to 
the town in the form of a wedge, an exchange was made with Mr. Joseph 
Curtis of Roxbury for eight or ten feet giving him as much in front as 
was taken in rear; also purchased of Mr. Samuel Hills fifteen hundred 
feet of land so that the house may have laud sufficient to erect a new 
school house or out-buildings hereafter if necessary. 

Account of the expences as follows : — 

Paid Mr. Samuel Hills lor land & deed .... 

" Mr. Elisha Stone for labour .... 

'• Mr. Charles Heath for Lumber .... 

•• Mr. Newell for Nails. &c 

" Mr. Tufts 

Mr. C. Perkins for mason work 

" Mr. Snow for painting 



$0 


00 


1 L2 


24 


07 


07 


7 


44 


2 


38 


11 


26 


38 


33 



March 14. 1840. 



DaNIEI 
Thom 



$243 7 

i. Sanderson, "i . , ... 
vs t.i.pk.n. \ Committee. 



By a vote of the Town the Trustees of the School Fund were requested 
to report annually the amount of said fund and to whom loaned, with the 
security on the same. They have attended to the duty and made the 
following report : — 

To Samuel Brown's note and mortgage on land and build- \ g,, ^ 

ings in Boston, with policy of insurance . . J 

To Charles Hastings, note and mortgage on land and build- ) .,,. , -., 

ings m Brighton, with policy of insurance . . | 
To Theophilas Dame's note and mortgage on house and") ..,- s , 

land in Brighton, with policy of insurance . . j 
To Edward Hall, to note and mortgage on his real estate ) ,, () , ... 

in this town, with policy of insurance . . . j 
To John Robinson, note and mortgage on house, land and \ ,.. >() ... 

Tanyard in Brighton, with policy of insurance . f 
To Daniel Kingsbury, note and mortgage on land and ) .goR 

buildings in Newton, with policy of insurance . f 

Total sum of said fund $4501 74 

We are convinced that the above security is perfectly satisfactory. 

Charles Stearns, Junr., ] 
James Robinson, | Trustees of 

Daniel Sanderson, j School Fund. 

A. W. Goddard, 



26 Brookline Toivn Records. 

The Law requires that the Selectmen shall report to the Inhabitants all 
the places in which Guide-boards are erected and maintained within the 
Town, and all places at which, in the opinion of the Selectmen, they 
ought to be erected and maintained. 

They beg leave to Report : The following are where they are erected 
and maintained : — 

Two by Mr. Newell's store, 1 to Brighton, 1 to Newton. 

One " Charles Steam's, to Cambridge. 

Three " Mr. Acker's, 1 to Brighton, 1 to Newton, 1 to Dedham. 

Two " Baptist Meeting house, 1 to Brighton, 1 to Cambridge. 

Two " Mr. Pette's, 1 to Brighton, 1 to Newton. 

Two " Mr. Perkin's corner, 1 to Newton, 1 to Dedham (&. Brighton). 

One " Dr. Pierce's Meeting house, to Jamaica plain. 

Two " S. G. Perkin's, 1 to Newton, 1 to Jamaica plain. 

One " Mr. Cabot's corner, to Brighton & Dedham. 

Two " Mr. Tilden's corner, 1 to Newton, 1 to Brighton. 

Two " Mr. Goodnow's, 1 to Dedham, 1 to Newton. 



It is the opinion of the Selectmen that there is a sufficient number 
erected to answer all purposes. 

Charles Stearics, Jr. 
James Robinson, 



"' > Selectmen. 



The committee appointed by the town to consider whether any im- 
provement can be made in our district schools, convened at the House of 
Mr. Seth Thayer on Friday evening, March 13, 1840 — present, Rev. Dr. 
Pierce, W. H. Shaler, S. T. Thayer. D. Coolidge, D. Sanderson, B. B. 
Davis, S. Hill, James Robinson, A. W. Goddard and Thomas Tilden. 

After some deliberation they resolved to present to the Town the 
following recommendation as their Report : — 

1st. We would recommend that the school at the centre of the Town be 
kept hereafter six months instead of eight, commencing annually about 
the middle of April. 

2nd. That no scholars be admitted to the Centre school under seven 
years of age. 

3rd. That the several districts have each a school kept by a male 
teacher five months, commencing the first Monday in November. 

4th. That the female teachers in the South and Southwest schools 
commence about the middle of April and continue six months. 

5th. That it be the duty of the School Committee to employ all the 
Teachers for the several Districts iii the town. 

Respectfully submitted, J. Pierce, Chairman. 

W. H. Shaler, Secretary. 

Agreeable to the instruction of the Town at the last March meeting. 
the Treasurer has attended to the duty of collecting the money due to- 
the two Parishes in Brookline, the proceeds of the Needham wood lot, 
and paid it to their respective treasurers. The amount, including the 



Meeting, May 18, 1840. 27 

Interest, was eight hundred & fifty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents, 
of which has been paid to James Robinson, Esq., Treasurer of the First 
Parish, $£29. 16, and to Deacon Elijah Corey, Treasurer of the Baptist 
Society, $429.16, making the whole amount of 8859.32. 

Brookline, February 25, 1840. 

Abtemas Newell, Treasurer. 

O. Whyte, Town Clk. 



1840, April 6. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of 
Brookline legally warned and assembled to give in their 
votes on the proposed amendment of the Constitution, there 
appeared for the amendment, April 6th, — 

Twenty-one votes. 

There appeared against the ammendment, 

JVoi one vote. 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was then chosen Moderator, when 

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it appeared there were no vacancies in town offices. 

Voted, That Dr. S. Shurtleff, Ebenezer Heath, Samuel 
Philbrick, Thomas Tilden, Thomas Griggs, Charles Stearns, 
Junr., and Daniel Sanderson be a committee to examine the 
state of the Burial Ground and the land adjacent suitable to 
enlarge it, and report to an adjourned meeting on the first 
Monday in May at four o'clock in the afternoon. 



May 4. At an adjournment from the 6 April the town 
met on the 4th day of May to hear the report of their com- 
mittee on the Burial Ground, &c, when it was 

Voted, That the Report of the Committee be rejected. 

O. White, Town Clk. 



May 18. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled on Monday, 18th day of May, 
to see what the town will do relative to enlarging and 



28 BrooMine Town Records. 

improving the Cemetary of said Town, Deacon Thomas 
Griggs was chosen Moderator, when the following Report 
was made and accepted by the Town : — 

Whereas, a committee of seven freeholders was chosen by the Town 
of Brookline at a legal meeting in April last to examine the land adjoin- 
ing our public burial ground and report if any and how much land could 
be purchased to enlarge the same and on what terms said purchase could 
be made, &c. And, whereas, said committee did make report at an 
adjournment of said meeting held on the first Monday of May instant, 
which adjournment being attended by very few of our Inhabitants, said 
Report was Rejected. Therefore, 

Voted, That the men comprizing said committee be now requested to 
report to this meeting the result of their labours and deliberations on 
that subject, together with such recommendation or suggestions as they 
may deem expedient. 

Whereupon they presented the following : — 

The committee appointed by the town of Brookline at a meeting in 
April last to examine the land adjacent to the public burial ground and 
ascertain whether any suitable addition can be made by a purchase of 
some of the adjoining land and on what conditions such purchase can be 
made, having attended thereto and made report at a former adjourned 
meeting, would now submit the result of their labours, together with the 
following suggestion for the considerations of this meeting. After a 
full examination of the grounds above named, Ave have run out the lines 
and set up boards for an enlargment of our public burial accommoda- 
tions in the following manner, viz. : Beginning on an angle on the 
eastern side of the Public Cemetary seven rods & 3 feet back from the 
highway and extending about eighty-six feet southward in a straight and 
direct line and parrellel with the line from the highway above named to a 
stake and stone, thence extending in a southwestern direction about one 
hundred and forty-two feet to the northeastern corner of the pond lying 
south of our cemetary, thence on the northern border of said pond 
extending in a western direction thirteen rods to a stake and stone, 
thence extending northward fourteen rods to the Highway about one 
hundred and four feet west from the northwest corner of our cemetary, 
comprizing about three-fourths of an acre of land more or less. The 
consideration required for this land is five hundred dollars a price in 
our opinion very high, considering the quality and location of the land. 
Yet inasmuch as an enlargement of our burial accommodations will 
shortly become indispensible, and it seems desirable that they should be 
in one enclosure rather than seperate and it is doubtful whether any 
place so suitable for this purpose can be obtained, we have tho' not 
without some hesitation and reluctance concluded to recommend the 
purchase of the land above described at the price required provided 
satisfactory bonds can be obtained to insure the perpetual protection of 
all the Burial ground including the proposed addition and the Fences 
surrounding the same against the removal of the gravel banks adjoining 
so as to undermine the around or fences in any manner whatever. 



Meeting, May 18, 1840. 29 

And as the purchase money will not be wanted immediately a note can 
be given by onr Town treasurer payable in the Autumn of 1841 with 
interest annually which will give the Town an opportunity to provide 
for payment in assessing the Taxes for that year. This land if pur- 
chased will need fencing which will probably cost but little short of 
two hundred dollars, and some levelling and grading for a cart-way 
around the western and southern borders with other improvements 
will be useful. We would therefore recommend the appointment of a 
Ceinetary Committee to be authorized and empowered to compleat the 
purchase of the land above described receive a title on behalf of the 
Town, to erect a suitable fence around the grounds and make such other 
improvements and embellishments as they in connexion & with the 
advice of the Board of Health may deem expedient not exceeding an 
expenditure of four hundred dollars, and that an appropriation of that 
sum be now made for those purposes. And we would further recom- 
mend that said committee be authorized by and with the advice of the 
Board of Health to locate and sell at their discretion at such prices as 
they may judge reasonable and proper suitable lots for the erection of 
Tombs or for enclosures of family interments to any persons applying 
therefor, to whom a Deed or title should be given by the Board of Health 
or Selectmen, to be entered on the Records of the town. And we would 
further recommend that said committee be empowered to effect a sale of 
the lot of land owned by the town adjoining the Town House on the 
eastern side whenever the price of rive hundred dollars can be obtained, 
and apply the proceeds towards the payment of the purchase herein 
recommended or otherwise as the town may direct — all which is sub- 
mitted. 

Brooklim:. May 18, 1840. S. A. Sin kti.kfi'. 

("has. Stkamxs, Jun. 

Thomas Griggs. 

Dan IK i. S a kderson . 

Ebenk. Heath. 

S. l'llll.liKK K. 

Voted, That in accordance with the report from the Com- 
mittee on the Burial Ground this day presented — Samuel 
Philbrick, Charles Wild, S. A. Shurtleff, Isaac Cooke and 
Thomas Griggs be now appointed a Cemetary Committee 
who shall continue in office until dismissed or another com- 
mittee shall be appointed in their place and who with the 
advice and assistance of the Board of Health, are hereby 
authorized and empowered to execute and carry into effect 
each and all the provisions and recommendations contained 
in said report, and that the sum of four hundred dollars be 
hereby appropriated and placed at their disposal for the 



30 Brookline Toivn Records. 

purposes specified in said report, which sum shall he sup- 
plied from any money in our Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, and that our Treasurer be hereby authorized to give 
his note in behalf of the Town for Five hundred dollars to 
purchase said land in accordance with the recommendation 
of said report whenever a title can be obtained satisfactory 
to said Committee and Board of Health. 

O. White, Town Oik. 

The following 

Statement of the Census. 

The number of Youths between the ages of four and six- 
teen years, and also a List of Men liable to be enrolled as 
taken by the Assessors of the Town of Brookline on the 
first day of May, 1840, and returned to the Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's office : — 

The number taken as the Census was One thousand one 
hundred and twenty-three. 1123. 

The Youth between the ages of four and sixteen years 
there was two hundred and forty-five. 245. 

The list of men liable to be enrolled as returned to the 
Adjutant-General's office was one hundred and thirty-two — 
and were as follows : — 

Luther S. Bennet Jacob Leavitt 
Alfred Bennet Herring 

Wilder Wood Ezra Hacket 

Martin Casey Charles Latham 

Minot Derby Isaac Dearborn 

Geo. L. Otis Elijah Tasker 

Charles Morse William Dearborn 

Oliver Pray Owen Gordon 

Samuel Pray Gilbert Homer 

John Huzzy Chas. Coolidge 

Will'm Morton Otis Withington 

Joel D. Seaward John Hersom 

Franklin Gibbs Cha. R. Corey 

George James James Willis 

Baldwin Wait Joshua Pennel 

Ozias M. Page John Weed 

James Andem Tinio'y Corey, Jun. 

Dan'l Jordan • Rawson Merrill 

A. H. Clapp George Hopkins 



Militia List, 1840. 



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Will'm T. Dnpee 
Jonas Humphry 
John Wood 
Sanil. A. Walker 
Will'm Clement 
Xathl. Fry 
Benja. Fry 
Uriah Morrison 
Enoch Sandbnrn 
Will'm Capen 
Tho. C. Blanchard 
Edwin Pray 
J. Blanchard 
Stephen Downs 
James Farmer 
William J. Griggs 
Danl. L. Adams 
Isaac Fogg 
Benja. Jewitt 
Ephra. Raney 
Danl. llanlet 
Samuel Page 
Geo. AY. Merrell 
Edmund Pray 
WiUard A. Humphrey 
Tho. K. Palmer 
Moody Page 
George dishing 
Charles Mosely 
.lames Ladd 
Charles Smith 
Charles Heath 
John Clay 
Wm. Mcintosh 
Hanson Davis 
Saml. Briant 
Moses Davis 
Will'm White 
Benja. Heberd 
Jos. L. White 
Stephen S. C. Jones 
Chas. Page 
Benja. Glidden 
Alonzo Andrews 
Geo. W. Goldsmith 
Abijah W. Goddard 
Eleazer Beedell 



Albert Woodsome 
Henry Carr 
Simeon Flint 
Clark Haynes 
Gilbert Lincoln 
John Dean 
Asa Lewis 

Ttnkham 
Algernon S. Mendall 
Augus. T. Newell 
John Rice 
Edward Frost 
David Whitney 
Will'm Dolby 
Will'm A. Hayden 
otis Ay res 
Joel Pettingill 
Miles Thurston 
Xathl. Billings 
Nathl. Patterson 
Paul C. Hodgden 
Isaac Kenny 
Wintield S. Evans 
Geo. Murdock 
Geo. W. Moulton 
Gardner Fuller 
Ezra T. Cooke 
Timo'y Faulkner 
Amasa Huntress 
Gilman Goodwin 
.lames Dennison 
Jaines Sleeper 
John Savary 
Charles Craft 
Nath. P. Johnson 
T- W. Wellington 
Tho. Quimby 
Will'm Wallace 
Jos. Richardson 
Chas. Jordan 
Will'm Gouch 
Levi Cole 
Cha. H. Wilson 
Sewell Joy 
John Howe, Jun. 
Nelson Cotting 

O. Whtte, Town Clk. 



32 



Brookline Town Records. 



November. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brook- 
line legally warned and assembled to see if the Town will 
send a Representitive to the General Court, and to give in 
their votes for Governor, Lieut. -Governor, Senators and 
Counsellors, Representitives to Congress, for Electors of 
President and Vice-President of the United States, and for 
choice of Representitive to the General Court — November 
9th, 1840. 



For Governor : 

John Davis of Worcester had One hundred & Seventeen votes . 
Marcus Morton of Taunton had Sixty votes. 

For Lieutenant-Governor : 

Geo. Hull of Sandisfleld had One hundred & Seventeen. 
Nathan Willis of Fittsfleld had Sixty-one votes. 
Alexr. Everett one vote. 

For Senators & Counsellors : 

Appleton Howe of Weymouth -» ] ia( j Q ne 
Meletiah M. Everett of Wrentham I hundred and 
James M. Robbins of Milton i Twenty votes. 

Benja. P. Williams \ 

B. L. Wales \ Had Fifty-eight votes. 

Lucas Fond 






For Electors of President and Vice-President of U. States 



at large < 
Dist.No. 1. 



Isaac C. Bates of Northampton 
Peleg Sprague of Boston 



Richard Houghton of Boston 
Stephen C. Phillips of Salem 
Rufus Longly of Haverhill 
Sydney Willard of Cambridge 
Ira M. Barton of Worcester 
George Grinnell,Juu.,of Greenfield 
Thaddeus Pomroy of Stockbridge 
Saml. Mister of New Braintree 
Thomas French of Canton 
Wilts Wood of Middleboro 
Joseph Tripp of Fair Haven 
John B. Thomas of Plymouth 
f William P. Walker of Lenox 
\ Ebenezer Fisher of Dedham 
Hist. No. 1. Caleb Eddy of Boston 
Robert Upton of Salem 
Nathl. Stephens, Andover 
Timothy Thompson, Charlestown 
Samuel Q. Spurr, Worcester 
Caleb Hubbard, Sunderland 
John Leland, Cheshire 
James Fowler, Westfield 
Artemas Brown, Medway 
Nathan C. Brownell. Westport 
Thomas Mandell, New Bedford 
Jesse Pierce, Stoughton 



8. 



at larse 



2. 
3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 



had one 

hundred and 

twenty-one votes. 



had Fifty-four 



votes. 



Meeting, February 15, 1841. 33 

For Representative to Congress: 

Dist. No. 9. William S. Hastings of Mendon had One hundred and 
Twenty Votes. 
Alexr. II. Everett of Roxbury had Fifty-Seven Votes. 



Voted, That the Town do send a Representitive to the 
General Court. 

Henry J. Oliver had One hundred & four Votes. 
Thomas Griggs had Fourteen Votes. 
James Bartlet had Fifty-three Vote-. 
Danl. Sanderson had one vote. 

O. Whyte, Town Glk. 



1841. 
At a meeting- of the Inhabitants of Brookline legally 
warned and assembled February 15, 1841, — 
Deacon Thomas Griggs, Moderator. 

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Voted, That a committee of Seven, Viz., Samuel Phil- 
brick, Thomas Kendall, Dr. Samuel Shurtleff, Samuel God- 
dard, Isaac Cooke, A. W. Goddard & Thomas Griggs, l)e 
appointed to investigate the situation of the Petitioners in 
Roxbury desirous to be set oft" to Brookline and report on 
Friday afternoon next at an adjourned meeting. 

Voted, That a committee of three, Viz., Samuel A. 
Walker, Thomas Griggs and Artemas Newell, be appointed 
to enquire into the expence of a compleat survey and pub- 
lishing a map of the town. 

Voted, That the subject of naming the streets be referred 
to the committee of Dea. Thomas Griggs and Samuel A. 
Walker and report on Fridry next. 

Voted, That the Report on the Cemetary be accepted. 

Voted, That the Cemetary committee have liberty to 
expend all money received & all that may be hereafter 
received by them from sales of Family Lots in the Public 
Burial ground in defraying the expenses of Fencing said 
grounds and in making other improvements thereon, and 
said monies or proceeds of sale are hereby appropriated for 
that purpose. 
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34 BrooTcline Town Records. 

Voted, That the sum of Two hundred and fifty dollars be 
appropriated from the monies which • may be raized by the 
Town the ensuing year, for defraying the expence of covering 
the front wall of the Public Burial ground with a Hammered 
stone capping, under the direction of the Cemetary com- 
mittee. 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed by the Town of Brookline in May, 1840, with 
authority to enlarge the Public burial ground by purchase of adjoining 

land, &c, and also to dispose of the Town's land adjoining the Town 
house, would now Report: That in accordance with the Authority above 
named, they have purchased of Caleb Clark a parcel of land situated on 
the Western. Southern, and Southeastern borders of the old burial ground 
in said Brookline, containing three-fourths of an acre & six rods of land 
as may appear by a plan drawn by E. F. Woodward of Newton, and also 
by a i]vi'{[ of Conveyance from Caleb Clark recorded in Norfolk Registry 
of Deeds, in consideration of tive hundred dollars which has been duly 
paid him from the proceeds of the town's lot of land adjoining the town 
house, which has been sold by your committee to Silas Pierce for the 
same consideration. In the deed of sale your committee have prohibited 
the erection of any building within Ten feet of the Town house, and have 
reserved the right to enter upon the ground and erect stagings for the 

repairs of the town house when needed. After procuring a survey of 
the Burial ground and grading the principle avenue, your committee 
offered at public auction on L5th June last a choice of Family lots as laid 
down upon the plan, fixing the minimum price at twenty-five dollars. 
Seven lots were then sold at an aggregate advance of seventy-nine 
dollars & 50 cents. For six of these lots deeds have been given and the 
consideration received, amounting to Two hundred twenty-four dollars >.\ 
50 Cents. No further sales have since been made, but your committee 
confidently hope thai after having compleated their contemplated 
improvements more lots will be taken for Family interments. 

A permanent stone wall has been laid in mortar in front of the newly 
purchased ground and extending by a part of the old ground. The gates 
have been enlarged and removed to the northwestern corner, and the 
residue of the premisses, including the old burial ground, has been sur- 
rounded by a. substantial Cedar post, and picket fence — except a few rods 
al Hie southeastern side, where a deep cut t hrough 1 he gravel ridge is 
contemplated and already commenced to connect the southern broad 
avenue with that which crosses. 

The Valley of the old burial ground making an entire circuit of the 
avenue around the hill, the removal of the gravel from this deep cut 
will incur but little expence, most of it being suitable for repairing road, 
and will soon be wanted for that purpose. About seventy ornamental 
trees have been planted, and your committee contemplate planting as 
many more in the spring. In the fencing and improvements already corn- 
pleated the expenditures have been as follows: — 



Meeting, February 15, 1841. 35 



For grading the western and southern broad avenues . 
For Lumber & Cedar posts for Pence 

• Carpenter work in building fence 

■ Sawing and planing pickets a1 mill 

•• Painting, including stock ...... 

• Labour in setting posts, leveling and turfing banks, i 
planting trees, grading Central avenue, *.vc. . . i 

• surveying and drawing plan 

" Sundry small Items attending sale of Lots. &c. 

■ Nails. &c., per Mr. Jones' bill 

" building front wall & finding materials . . 93 27 

• enlarging Iron irates. per Safford >.<; Co.'s bill . 19 61 



$101 


83 


91 


1:' 


36 


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:;i 


10 


40 


77 


7+ 


07 


4 


no 


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:;;; 


7 


62 



111' ss 



Making a total expense of $505 04 

exclusive of the cost of tree-, which will probably lie about forty 
dollars more. 

When the appropriation of four hundred dollar- was granted by the 
town in May last for fencing and improvements, it was not contemplated 
to build the front wall at present, nor was the expence of building this 
Mall included in the estimates made by your committee when they recom- 
mended this appropriation, as the removal of the front gravel bank was 
then considered a preliminary measure. Hut on further consultation 
after your committee had matured their other plans for improvement, 
it was their unanimous opinion that the natural beauty of the grounds 
Would be greatly impaired by the removal of the front gravel Bank, and 
by retaining it the front wall could be built without delay, which being 
very desirable was accordingly done. The expence of this wall, with 
the removal and enlargement of the gates, exclusive of levelling and 
turfing the banks on both sides, amounts to $112.88, which taken from 
the total expenditure reduces the sum to $392.16 below (he estimate and 
below the grant made by the Town. This extra expend it lire in building the 
front wall and gates has been paid from the -ale of Family lot-, and as 
your committee are desirous of making some further improvements after 
compleating those already commenced. They would now respectfully 
request the Town to grant them by vote whatever monies have been 
received from sales of Family lots, and which may hereafter be received 
from such sales, to lie expended in compleating the fence and improving 
the grounds and avenues. The front wall would be more permanently 
durable and present a much better appearance if covered with a ham- 
mered stone capping. Your committee would therefore recommend an 
appropriation for that purpose of a sum not exceeding two hundred & 
fifty dollars. 

When it is considered that the fencing and improvements already made 
have cost the Town only 400 dollars, and that the expence of all other 
contemplated improvements will be paid from sales of family lots. Your 
committee cannot doubt the liberality of the Town in promptly meeting 
their vieAvs by a grant of this sum. All which is submitted — on behalf 

of the Committee, 

S. Philbrick, Chairman. 
Brookline, Febv. 8, 1841. 



36 BrooTcline Town Records. 

February 19, 1841, at an adjourned meeting from the 
15th Instant, — 

Dea. Thomas Griggs, Moderator. 

Voted, That the report on the subject of annexing a part 
of Roxbury be accepted, as follows : — 

ANNEXING A PART OF ROXBURY. 

The committee appointed by the Town of Brookline on the order of 
Notice from the Legislature in relation to the Petition of Jeremiah Lyon 
and others of Roxbury, having attended to the duties assigned them. 
■would now report: That the petitioners, only seven in number. Viz., 
Jere. Lyon, J. Davenport, W. H. Brown. Lemuel Foster, Mrs. Phippin, 
William Barnard, and Silas Snow, having confined their Petition to 
themselves in praying to be annexed to Brookline. and the order of 
notice from the Legislature having embraced nothing beyond their peti- 
tion, your committee can see no possible objection on the part of Brook- 
line to the granting their prayer, excepting that of making a crooked 
boundary line. They would therefore recommend that the town should 
by Vote instruct their Representitive to give the Legislature information 
to this effect. Agreeable to instructions, your committee have also 
extended their enquiries into the circumstances connected with a pro- 
spective application for the annexation to Brookline of the whole Village, 
including the land and meadow on this side the Brook, according to a 
survey and plan recently made by A. F. Woodward of Newton, and they 
find the whole number of inhabitants in said Village to be One hundred 
and seven, of which number fourteen are children of suitable age to 
attend public schools. That there is iioav one person among them deriving 
support from the Town, and that the amount of Taxes they now pay to 
the Town of Roxbury is about Three hundred and seven dollars, all which 
is submitted. In behalf of the committee, 

s. Phiubrick, Chairman. 
Brookline, 1!» Feb., 1841. 

Voted, That in accordance with the report of our commit- 
tee appointed in pursuance of the order of Notice from the 
Legislature respecting the petitions of Jeremiah Lyon and 
others, our representitive be requested to inform the Legis- 
lature that the Town has no objection to the granting the 
prayer of said petitioners, inasmuch as their prayer does 
not extend further than to embrace the dwellings of the 
petitioners and their Estates attached thereto, and that 
the Clerk furnish our Representitive with a copy of this 
Vote. 



Meeting, March 1, 1841. 



37 



Voted, That the report of the committee on naming Streets 
and avenues, &c, be accepted, as follows : — 



Road from Roxbury to Brighton .... 

" Baptist meeting House towards Cain- 
bridge ...... 

Cambridge Road to Milldam Road 
Cambridge Road to the Marsh 
" Cambridge Road to Hairs corner . 
•' Washington Street to Mr. Fisher's corner 

Worcester Turnpike 

from Boylston Street to Brighton, by Capt. 

Sanderson's ..... 

•■ Tost office by Dr. Pierce's Church to 

Boylston Street ..... 

•• Dr. Pierce's Church to Perkins' Corner . 

" Goddard's corner by ('apt. Cooke's to 

Roxbury line 

•• Cabot's corner by Mr. Tilden's 

Roxbury line to Newton by Mr. Hill's 
•■ Goodenough's corner by Caleb Craft's 
to Spring Street in Roxbury 
Worcester turnpike or" Boylston Street 

by Mr. Heath's to Newton line . 
Heath Street to Boylston Street by Mrs. 
Penniman's ..... 

•• Entrance near ('apt. Cooke's to Capt. I 

Joseph Goddard's i 

Washington street by .1. W. Smith's | 

to Spring Grove . . i 

•• Cypress Street to S. A. Walker's house . 



Named. 

Washington Street. 

Harvard Street. 
Pleasant Street. 
Sewell Avenue. 
School Street. 
Cypress Street. 
Boylston Street. 

Brighton street. 

Walnut Street. 
Warren Street. 

Cottage Street. 
Clyde Street. 
Newton Street. 

South Street. 

Heath Street. 

Pound street. 
Goddard 

Avenue. 

Washington 

place. 

Cottage Avenue. 



Voted, That Selectmen be instructed to have as many as 
may be necessary for each street of at least two names on 
each street and one on each place, the same to be put up at 
the expence of the town, as soon as practicable, and in con- 
formity with the names of said streets and places as adopted 
at an adjourned meeting of the Inhabitants of the town. 

O. Whyte, Town Clk. 



March 1, 1841. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of 
Brookline legally warned and assembled for the purpose of 
choosing Town Officers, Give in their Votes for County 
treasurer and Register of Deeds, & receive reports of 
committee, — 



38 BrooMlne Town Records. 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator. 

Oliver Whyte, Town Clerk. 

Charles Stearns. .Tun.. J 

James Robinson, ["Selectmen & Assessors. 

Benja. B. Davis. J 

Artemas Newell, Colector & treasurer. 

Doct. John Pierce. ^ ^ , Q n , 

Ti w tt 01 i General School 

Rev. Wm. H. Shaler, > s++ 

c „ ~ , , , ( committee. 

Sam 1 Goddam, J 

DavidCoolidge, North | Prudential 

Geo. W. Stearns. South School Committee . 

Ihomas Woodward, Southwest J 

Artemas Newel. ) <, ,, r i ., T i 

Elisha Stone, j Surve y° rs ot Wood & Lumber. 

James Bartlet. Sain'l A. Robinson. C. Clark. 1 r . . , 

Geo. Cushing, Jos. L. White, ('has. Pulsifer, \ , . 

P. Goodenow, Sam'l Hills, Simon Warren. J anvers - 

Marshal Stearns. James Bartlet, 1 ^. t 

c ., , n mi - 1 irewai'ds. 

Seth T. 1 haver, j 

Marshal Stearns. 1 ^ 
A.W.Goddard, pence viewers. 

George Cushing, Pound Keeper. 

Doct. Charles Wild, \ 

Ebenezer Heath, > Auditors of Accounts. 

Elijah Corey, j 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 

Charles Stearns. Jim., 1st North 

Dea. Timo'y Corey, 2 

Samuel Philbrick, 3 

Charles Pulsifer, 1 Middle 

Thomas Quimby, 2 

Joseph White, 3 

Phineas Goodenow. 1 South 

2 
John W. Warren, 3 

Hugh M. Sandburn. Eastern turnpike 
Daniel Pierce, Western Do. 

John Bullard had seventy-five Votes for County treasurer. 
Enos Ford had Sixty-eight Votes for Register of Deeds, ^c. 
E. G. Robinson had Seven Votes for County treasurer. 
Erastus Wales had ten voted for Register of Deeds. 

Voted, That the Report of the School Committee be ac- 
cepted. 

Voted, That the Report on Town Accounts be accepted. 

Voted, That Four thousand live hundred dollars be raized 
for the current expences of the town for the purposes 
expressed in the estimate. 

Voted, That the One thousand dollars to be raized by the 
Town of Brookline the ensuing year for repairing the high- 
ways within said town shall be assessed upon the Polls and 



Surveyors 

of 
Highways. 



Meeting, March 1, 1841. 39 

Estates of the Inhabitants, residents and non-residents, as 
other town charges are assessed, and the same shall be col- 
lected and shall be divided between the several highway 
districts in the same proportion as such divisions have been 
made the two past years, but the several portions shall not 
be paid over to the several surveyors until! the Selectmen 
shall be satisfied that the same shall have been expended 
according to the requirements of our statutes. 

Voted, That in future the Trustees of the school fund 
Report annually the Income of said fund. 

Voted, That the prudential committeeman provide Miss 
Catharine Stearns with an assistant. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be Authorized to Borrow five 
hundred dollars, agreable to the recommendation of the 
Committee on Town Accounts. 

Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to Monday, 5th 
April, at three o'clock p. m. 

The committee chosen at the last March meeting to examine the 
accounts of the town Treasurer, Report as the result of their investiga- 
tion that He has Keceived 

Two years' income of the School Fund from theSchool Treasurer 600 93 
A loan from the Bank of Brighton ..... 

Income of hay scales ........ 

of Commonwealth for paupers & school bounty . 

Ain't of tax levied by vote of the town, all of which except I 
necessary abatements has been fully paid in . / 

which, with the Balance in his hands at last Audit of Acc't> 

making his whole Amount of Responsibilities . . .s.">7'.M 65 
He has exhibited to your committee Vouchers and requisite 

orders from the Selectmen for their payment to the 

Amount of . . ~>14l> 03 



4S4 


7"> 


ss 


no 


L03 


4!> 


toll 


93 


469 


.").") 



leaving in his hands ...... $649 <; - -' 

a balance promptly tendered to the Committee. 

The expenditures were for the following purposes, Viz. : — 

For the Support of the Poor ....... 516 ~>7 

Repairs of Town Hall & School houses .... 203 88 

Guide boards 12 on 

Repairs of Highways ....... 130s :'..". 

Direct expences of Education ...... line 92 

Fire engine. &c. . . . . . . . . 98 18 

County and Needham taxes 4C4 98 

Repairs of Burial ground 407 ."••"» 

Abatements of Taxes ....... 4:'. 76 

Sallaries of Town < Mlicers. assessing & collecting taxes. &c. 297 i'"> 

Brighton Bank for Cash borrowed ..... 500 — 

Stationary, legal advice, & other contingences . . 98 81 

.s.-,l42 03 



40 BrooMine Town Records. 

The balance in the treasury, say 650$, will not be sufficient to meet the 
demands which will probably be presented before the next collection of 
taxes, as they will amount to 1000 dollars or more, and it will therefore 
again be necessary to borrow a sufficient sum to maintain the Credit of 
the treasury till that time. 

A vigilant regard to economy and the best interests of the town is 
strikingly [shown?] in the passing of accounts and Issue of orders by 
the selectmen upon the treasurer, and there has been in the past year a 
diminution of the ordinary ami current expences. 

But an unusual amount of Repairs of school houses, the Town Hall, 
and the Highways, together with the grant of 400 dollars for the improve- 
ment of the Burial Ground, amounting in all to over 800 dollars, for no 
part of which any appropriation was made, have consumed all the sur- 
plus that would otherwise have been found in the treasury. The Books 
of the Treasurer should present a faithful picture of the whole expendi- 
tures of the town as it were in one view, and with all the items so 
arranged as to constitute almost a record of pecuniary events, so that in 
future time a reference to them might afford a satisfactory solution of 
any question of finance that could arise, and with the exact and well- 
arranged method of the present Treasurer this would be the case, were 
it not that within the last few years monies have been raised from unus- 
ual sources by committees chosen to perform especial duties and by them 
appropriated in the performance of those duties without any distinct 
reference to the board of Selectmen or any connection with the Town 
treasury. 

Doubtless those duties have been well performed ami the money judi- 
ciously appropriated, but if. after the lapse of a few years, it should 
become necessary to depend upon the evidence of all this, that evidence 
may not be found, or. at least, where it should be, namely, in the archives 
of your regually qualified town officers. 

To Ensure therefore a desirable unity in the management of financial 
concerns, your committee recommend the Passage of the following 
Resolve, Viz. : — 

That hereafter all monies received in behalf of the Town by any com- 
mittee or individual shall at a convenient and proper season pass into 
the hands of the Town Treasurer, by him to be disbursed only to the 
written order of the Selectmen, issued on the application of the commit- 
tee or individual authorized by vote of the Town to make such appro- 
priation. 

In conclusion, we would cheerfully express our satisfaction with the 
compleatness of the collection of the taxes, with the order ami exactness 
of the accounts of the Treasurer, and particularly with the arrangement 
by which he is enabled to present the true state of the finances at a view, 
and thereby greatly facilitate the investigations of the Auditors. Under 
the existing State of affairs we would, as the ba^is of next tax to be 
levied, present the following Estimate: — 



Meeting, March 1, 1841, 



41 



For payment of back debts and demands 
Support of the poor ...... 

Repairs of buildings ...... 

Roads 

Amending highway ....... 

Education ........ 

Burial ground (as voted) . . . . . 

Fire department 150, County & Xeedham taxes 650 
Assessing & collecting taxes ..... 

Sallaries of Town Officers, Stationary, ^c. 

< >ther contingences ....... 



From this may be deducted : 

Ballance in the Treasury i;.".o 

Income of School Fund 300 

Hay scale £ other sources loo 



Leaving a necessary amount of tax .... 
All which is respectfully submitted by 

Charles Wild, 
Elijah Corey, 
Bbenr. Hi. \ i li. 



500 
600 

21 ii i 
300 

1(100 

1200 
250 
800 
150 
250 
200 



5450 



1050 



$4400 



j Yuditing 
< 'ommittee 



By a vote of the Town, the Trustees of the school fund were requested 
to report to the Town annually the amount of said fund and to whom 
loaned and the security of the same. They have attended to their duty, 
and make the following Report : — 



To Theophilus Dame's note X mortgage on house & land in ) 

Brighton, with Policy of Insurance . . . i 

Edward Hall's note >.v mortgage on house & land in this i 

town I 

Samuel Brown's note «.v mortgage on house and land in ! 
Boston, with Policy of insurance . . . i 

Charles Hastings' note & mortgage on house and land i 
in Brighton, with Policy of insurance . . . j 
Daniel Kingsbury's note & mortgage on house & land | 
in Newton, with Policy of Insurance . . . i 
Deacon John Robinson has paid into the Treasury the amount 
of his mortgage, which was 1520.73; the committee 
thought best to add to that sum L".i.L'7 of the interest. 
which makes 1550$, which they have loaned to Reuben 
Hastings, with note & mortgage on house & land in 
Brighton, with Policy of Insurance .... 



Total sum of said fund 



435 
204 

si 1 

:',o 4 

1L>2."» 



1550 



84 



I l 



$4531 01 



James Robinson, \ Trustees 
Daniel Sanderson, ?■ of 

A. W. GODDARD, J School Fill/' 7 . 



42 Brookllne Town Records. 

1841, April. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled April 5, 1841, for the choice 
of County Commissioners, there appeared for 

Samuel P. Loud of Dorchester. Fifty-two votes. 
Seth Mann " Randolph, Forty-nine •• 

County Joseph Hawes " Walpole. Forty-nine " 

Benja.V. French " Braintree, Eighteen 
j William Ellis •• Dedham, Eighteen 
Commissioners | Martin Torry •• Hoxbury, Eighteen " 
j Lewis Fisher, three votes Three 

[ Shubael Bills, three " 

f John C. Scammell of Bellingham, Forty-nine voles. 
Shubael Bills •' Roxbury, Forty-nine 

Special Benja. P. Williams " Roxbury, Eighteen 

Commissioners' Nathan Jones •• Medway, Eighteen 

Seth Mann •• Randolph. Three 

Joseph Hawes •• Walpole, Three 



At an adjourned meeting from March — 

Phineas Goodenow was chosen surveyor for the first South 
district instead of Caleb Craft who paid his fine. 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was then chosen Moderator, it was 

Voted, That the second article in the warrant should be 
indeffinitely postponed. 

Voted, That [it?] is expedient for the Town to have a 
high school. 

Voted, That a committee of seven freeholders be appointed 
to investigate the subject of Establishing a Classical School 
in this town and that they be instructed to take into consid- 
eration every circumstance connected therewith and report 
in detail the result of their investigation at an adjournment 
of this meeting:. 

Voted, That this Committee consist of Samuel Goddard, 
Daniel Sanderson, Dr. Samuel A. Shurtliff, Deacon Thomas 
Griggs, Charles Stearns, Junr., Abijah W. Goddard, Samuel 
Philbrick, to which were added Capt. Isaac Cooke and David 
R. Griffons. 

Voted, That Fifty dollars be paid to Doctor Pierce and the 
Rev. Mr. Shaler for their passed services as general School 
Committee. 

Voted, That the employment of a schoolmaster for the 
Middle School be dispensed with for the present. 
Adjourned for one fortnight, at 4 o'clock p. m. 



Meeting, Jfovember 8, 1841. 43 

April 19th. At an adjourned meeting from the 5th April, 
1841, The Inhabitants of the town met on the 19th April 
to hear the Report of their committee on the High school. 

Voted, That the Report be recommitted with the addition 
of four, Viz., Samuel Craft, David Coolidge, Seth T. Thayer 
and Samuel Hills. 

Voted, That the school committee shall provide such In- 
structor, or Instructress, for the Middle School as they shall 
think proper. 

The meeting was then dissolved. 

O. Whyte, Town Clerk. 



May 3. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline 
legally warned and assembled to give in their Votes for Two 
county Commissioners and one special commissioner on the 
3d da j' of May, 1841. When the whole number of Votes 
given in was forty-nine, of which 

Seth Mann of Randolph had forty. 
Samuel P. Lowd of Dorchester; forty-one. 
William Ellis of Dedham. Eight. 
Martin Torrey of Foxborough, Eight. 
Shubell Bills, One. 

For Special Commissioners : — 

John C. Scammel had forty-one. 
Nathan Jones, Eight. 

Samuel Philbrick was chosen Moderator. 

The committee not being ready to report on the High 
School it was Voted that the committee make the Report at 
the November Meeting. 



Nov. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline legally 
warned and assembled on Monday the 8th of November to 
give in their Votes for Governor, Lt. -Governor, Senators and 
Representitive to the General Court if approved of by the 



44 Brookline Town Records. 

Town, and also to choose a Moderator, and receive the 
Report of the Committee on a High School. 

Voted, That the town do not send a Representitive to the 
next General Court. 

For Governor, John Davis had One hundred & four Votes. 

Marcus Morton had Seventy votes. 
Tor Leiutenant-Governor : — 

George Hull had One hundred & four Votes. 

Henry H. Childs had Seventy-one votes. 
For Senators : — 

Appleton Howe had one hundred & four votes. 

Meletiah Everett had One hundred & four. 

James M. Robins had One hundred & four. 

Benja. P. Williams had Seventy-one. 

Bradford L. Wales had Seventy-one. 

Lucas Pond had Seventy-one. 

A. W. Goddard was then Chosen Moderator, — 

When it was found the Committee on the High School 

were not ready to make a report at this time in consequence 

of the Indisposition of the Chairman. 

O. Whyte, Town Clk. 



1842. 

W ARRANT FOR MARCH MEETING. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts to Notify and warn the Male Inhabitants of 
said town, being twenty-one years of age : and who having 
resided in the Commonwealth one year, and within the town 
six months, next preceeding ; and having paid any State 
or County tax, which has been assessed upon them within 
the Commonwealth within two years last past, and also every 
citizen who shall by law be exempt from taxation and in all 
other respects qualified as above mentioned, To meet at the 
Town hall in said town on the first Monday of March next, 



Meeting, March 7, 1842. 45 

being the seventh day of said month, at one O'clock in the 
afternoon, at which time the Polls will be opened to act on 
the following Articles : — 

1st, to choose a Moderator. 

2d. to choose Town Officers, as the law directs. 
3d, to give in their Votes for County Treasurer. 
4th, to receive the reports of Committees. 

.Mh. to see what the Town will do respecting a high school. 

6th, to raise money for the expences of the Town the current year. 

Given under our hands & seals this twenty-first day of 
February, eighteen hundred and forty-two. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., [l.s.] ^ 

James Robinson, [l.s.] > Selectmen. 

Benjn. B. Davis, [l.s.] ) 



Norfolk, ss. Brookcine, March 4. L842. 

By virtue of the within warrant \ have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 



March. 

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline legally 
warned and assembled on the seventh day of March, eighteen 
hundred and forty-two, for the purpose of choosing Town 
Officers, receiving reports of Committees, giving in their 
votes for County Treasurer, see what the Town will do 
respecting a High School, and vote money for the expences 
of the Town the current year. The meeting was opened 
with prayer by Rev. John Pierce, D. D. After reading the 
warrant and return, A. W. Goddard was chosen Moderator 
and Otis Withington Town Clerk, 55 Votes out of 96. 

The Oath to the Town Clerk was administered by the 
Moderator. 

Daniel Sanderson had 84 Votes out of ss \ were 
David Coolidge had 8~> Votes out of 88 . I chosen 
Thomas Griggs had 84 Votes out of 88 J Selectmen. 
Charles Stearns. Jr., had ss Votes out of 93 ) , 

Samuel Philbrick had 70 Votes out of 93 \ w i ere cnosen 
Seth T. Thaver had 44 Votes out of 62 I Assesso] h - 



46 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To hear the report of the Auditing Committee. 
The following report was read and accepted. 

AUDITORS' REPORT. 

The Committee appointed to investigate the accounts of the Treasurer 
of the Town of Brookline for the year ending the first day of March, 
184:2, find that the receipts for which he was accountable have been — 

A balance in the Treasury at the last audit .... 

A loan from the Bank of Brighton ...... 

Amount pd by Treasurer of Commonwealth, school fund 43 71 

Paupers 37 78 

Proceeds of Hay Scales 

Sundry other Receipts ........ 

Interest of School fund ........ 

Amount of Town Tax levied for the year and coll'cted in full 

Making total of his Liabilities to town .... $6321 00 



649 


62 


484 


7."> 


81 


4!> 


70 


7"> 


157 


4(i 


281 


61 


1731 


0'.' 


4589 


98 



( )f which there has been paid 

For support of the Poor 024 78 

Street & Guide posts & signs 108 96 

Repairs of Highways 1082 72 

Education, expeuces of 1246 30. 

Repairs of Engine & Hose & other expeuces . . 235 88 

County & Needham Taxes 495 89 

Old debts and contingencies ..... 707 29 

( ash paid to the Cemetary Committee . . . 250 

Remissions & Abatments of Taxes . . . 70 22 

Town Officers & Collecting & Assessing Taxes . 350 04 



$5178 06 



Leaving a ballance in the Treasury duly tendered to com- $114.". 54 
mittee and which is sufficient to pay the amount of out- 
standing demands. 

The Committee have thus the satisfaction of reporting pecuniary con- 
dition of the town to be as favorable as they have ever known it ; and 
cannot but express their concern that Officers who have so faithfully 
consulted its interests and conducted it affairs with such econemy and 
precision should have resolved to relinquish their duties. In particular 
the committee deem it incumbent on them to express the high sense they 
feel of the perfect promptness and accuracy which have charatised the 
management of the present Treasurer from his first accession to the office, 
and leaves room for no suggestion of improvement, and have only to 
hope that his successor whoever he may be, will be equally emulous 
of these high qualities. 



Meeting, March 7, 1842. 



47 



It is believed that all accounts actually due appear upon his books, and 
with exception of expenditure made by the (Vinetary Committee, who 
have failed to comply with the requirements of the Vote of the last 
March Meeting, they present an entire view of the expences & resources 
of the town. 

ill the view of the actual expences of past years the Auditors, according 
to the custom, would otter as a basis for the next tax the following: 



Estimate, vit 

Immature & back debts 

Support of the Poor .... 

Repairs of fences, bridges &c, <>n roads 

■• Buildings .... 

" Highways .... 
Education ...... 

Engine 

County. State & Xeedham taxes . 
Assessing & Collecting taxes 
Town Officers, Stationary, &c. 
Contingencies ..... 

From this may be deducted 
ballance in treasury 
Interest of School Fund . 



or in round number 



7int 
L'i II I 
250 
L000 
L300 
150 
7()(i 
1 ;,i t 
250 
350 

114:; 
280 



Etespecl fully submitted by 

( ii \ki E8 Wii.n. 
Elijah Cokey, 
Ebenr. Heath, 



$5650 



1420 

$4230 
$4500 



' 'ommittee. 



Stephen S. C. Jones bad 48 Votes out of 89 for Treasurer 
and Collector, and was chosen. 

S. S. C. Jones asked to be excused. 

Voted to excuse him. 

Artiuias Newell was chosen Treasurer and Collector by a 
vote of 49 out of 97 

Voted, To hear the report of the general School Committee. 

The School Committee presented the the following report, 
which was accepted by vote : — 



REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 

The School Committee of the Town of Brookline would respectfully 
Submit the following report: 

Your Com. have endeavored to discharge the duties of their office the 
past year strictly in accordance with the requirements of the laws of this 
Commonwealth. They have thoroughly examined every new teacher 



48 Brookline Town Records. 

who lias been employed, tliey have visited each school once every month 
and had regular examinations of them all every quarter, they have given 
counsel to the instructors, examined and revised the list of books, and 
recommended such plans for the improvement of the Schools as on the 
whole it seemed in their judgement best for them to adopt. And in 
presenting our report we would say that the Schools have all been con- 
tinued without intermission during the past year. An assistant has been 
employed in the female department of the north school, according to the 
vote of the town at their last annual meeting. And the Com. are of the 
opinion that one will be needed for the year ensuing. In consequence of 
the advancement made by some of the scholars it has been found neces- 
sary to extend the course of study in one or two instances, and to meel 
the exigences which have thus arisen, the com. have recommended sonic 
branches which have never before been pursued in our common schools. 
Whether this method can be pursued still farther without doing material 
injury to the smaller scholars, or whether our schools must be rendered 
useless to many under the age of sixteen Avho wish to prosecute their studies 
farther than those who have preceeded them and add to the knowledge 
which they have already attained, is a question which your com. are not 
fully able to decide. It is evident, however, that the wants of this class 
should in some way be met, and that the Town should make provision 
for the thorough instruction of all between the ages of four and sixteen. 
The fact that such demands are made of the Com. is proof that the cause 
of education is advancing, and that our common schools are accomp- 
lishing more than they have hitherto done. There seems to be an 
increased interest among us in relation to the cause of education, parents 
are some of them begining to give their attention more fully to this sub- 
ject and to inquire what can be done and what ought to be done in order 
to give their children such mental training as will tit them for respecti- 
bility and usefulness in future life They perceive that in respect to 
knowledge demands are made in every department of business of those 
who are now coming upon the stage of active life, which were not made 
in former times, and. without a thorough education, the rising genera- 
tion will not be able to meet these demands. To many of our citisens 
Avhose advantages in early life were of necessaty somewhat limited. 
•Avisdom appears to be the principal thing, more precious than rubies 
and all things which can be desired are not to be compared unto her." 
Hence they are desirous of giving to their children a good education as 
the best and perhaps the only legacy which they will be able to leave 
them. To others the cause of education appears to be less important, 
and in their minds it aAvakens but little or no interest compaired with 
other subjects Avhich engross their attention, and as a consequence 
they have but little anxiety respecting the condition and character of our 
public schools. Noav it is the opinion of your committee that none of us 
put too high an estimate upon a good education, or feel too much the 
importance of having our children furnished with such means for intel- 
lectual culture as the exigences of the age demand. The public schools 
in this town ought not to be inferior to those of any other town in the 
Commonwealth, and Ave ought not to be satisfied without the evidence 



Meeting, March 7, 1842. 49 

that we are every year elevating their character and improving their 

condition. 

Perhaps the two greatest obsticles which oppose the advancement of 
our common schools are the irregularity of attendance on the part of the 
scholars, and the frequent changes in respect to teachers. There is ^till 
a great want of punctuality and regularity on the part of many of the 
scholars, a great many are in the habit of going to school late, of losing 
a part of the exercises at the opening of the school and interupting 
others, and in addition to that some are in the habit of leaving the 
school in the afternoon before they close. Now it will be seen that 
when six hours only out of twenty four are devoted to study that to take 
a portion of these at the begining and close, makes the remainder almost 
valueless to the scholar. And besides this many stay out of school day 
after day and tints fall so far behind the classes thai they become dis- 
couraged, and they acquire a dislike for school and for study which can 
never be removed. 

During the last year the average attendance in all our schools has been 
but about three quarters of the whole number connected with them. 
Thus about one quarter of the time and expence have been lost, yes worst 
than lost because habits have been acquired which can never be eradi- 
cated. Tins evil the com. have tried to remedy, but it is not in their 
power to do it without the cooperation of the parents. The other evil to 
which we alluded is the frequent change of teachers, according to our 
present arrangement there is but one school where a permanent teacher 
can be employed. The others from necessity are subject to change 
every autumn and spring, and not only so but frequently, perhaps we 
should say almost invariably, a new teacher is employed rather than the 
male or female teachers who had previously taught in their respective 
seasons. It may be we do not suffer more than other towns in this 
respect, but still we do suffer materially even in cases where teachers 
have succeeded to the entire satisfaction of tin- Coin, and an overwhelm- 
ing majority of the district. Some individuals from causes which had 
no connection whatever with the teachers' qualifications as instructors 
or because in the discharge of -their duties have administered some medi- 
cine which was not very pleasant to their children although perhaps 
precisely what they need to cure their evil habits have interfered and 
insisted upon having some teacher who has never been tried, and thus 
another is employed, the com. meet and examine the intellectual qualifi- 
cations and so far as they can the whole character and habits of the new 
teacher, and if those are satisfactory they give their approbation. But 
yet in placing a new teacher into a school they regard it as a matter of 
experiment. Tacts plainly show us that a person who succeeds well in 
managing a school in one place or community may entirely fail in 
another. No two schools are alike and no method of governing or man- 
aginent will answer for every school. Unless a teacher have a knowledge 
of human nature, and especially of human nature as developed in children 
unless he have some versatility of talent, in fine unless he have tact as a 
teacher and knows how to meet difficulties in any form he canot long 
succeed. Now it is difficult to hud all the qualifications in one person, 



50 BrooMine Town Records. 

and when a teacher is found who succeeds wed in any place it seems 
desirable that such an one should not be exchanged without the most 
weighty reasons. We are not very friendly to experiments of any kinds, 
and especially upon those made upon the minds of immortal beings, and 
which are calculated to affect the intelectual and moral habits of some 
thirty or forty children. And we would therefore urge all to do what 
lies in their power to remedy this evil, and to seek a change of teachers 
only when such a change seems to be absolutely necessary. 

In closing their report the com. would respectfully sugest to all our 
citisens the importance of giving still more attention to the great cause 
of education connected as it is with all that is dear in the weal of our 
common country. And the well being of our children and those grpwing 
up around us it is a cause that lias strong claim upon the attention not 
only of every parent but every philanthropist and christian. By our 
combined efforts, by visiting the schools, by encouraging the scholars, 
and showing the necessity of being regular and punctual, by placing 
before them the amount of education they will need in any department of 
business to -which they are looking forward and by providing liberally 
and amply the means whereby they may be thoroughly educated for the 
occupations they assign to follow in future life, Ave may effect great and 
beneficial changes in our community in respect to this subject. 

That we may all do this in harmony and with promptness is the sincere 
wish of your Committee. 

John Pierce, 

Wm. II. Siiailer, \ Committer 

Samuel Goddard, 



Brookline, March 7, '42. 
Voted, That the General School Committee consist of five. 
The following gentlemen were chosen : 

Rev. John Pierce, D. D., bad 99 votes. 
Rev. Wm. II. Shailer had 99 voles. 

Mr. Samuel Goddard had 78 votes out of 99. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick had G7 votes out of 99. 
Mr. Seth T. Thayer had 64 votes out of 99. 

Scattering 11 . 

Whole number of Votes given in for Count}' Treasurer 
w r ere eighty-one. 

John Bullard had eighty votes. 
Seth T. Thayer had one vote. 

Voted, That the thanks of the town be presented to Oliver 
Whyte, Esq., for his faithful service in past years as Town 
Clerk. 



Meeting, March 7, 1842. 51 

The following were chosen : 

Prudential ( David Cooledge, first mirth District. 
School \ II. M. Sanborn, South District. 
Com. ( Alvin Loker, South West District. 

Elisha Stone, i Surveyors of wood & lumber. 

Stephen S. C. Jones. , 

' Charles Stearns. Jr., first North District. 
Elijah Corey. Jr., Second North do 
Oliver Whyte, third North do 

Charles l'ulsit'er, first Middle do 
Surveyors of Thomas Quimby, Second Middle do 
Joseph White, third Middle do 

Highways. Phineas Goodnough, tirst South do 
Samuel Hills, second South do 

John W. Warren. third South do 
H. M. Sanborn, Eastern Section of Turnpike. 
1 Daniel Pierce, Western Section of Turnpike. 

Voted, To choose twelve Field Drivers — reconsidered. 
Samuel A. Walker chosen (excused). 
Voted, To choose six Field Drivers. 

Albert Woodsom, 

William Clement, 

Franklin Stone, 

George Cushing (excused), |- Field Drivers. 

Joseph L. White, 

Amos Snow. 

Edward Hall, J 

Marshal Stearns. ~\ 

James Bartlett, - Fire-Wards. 

Seth T. Thayer, j 

Marshal Stearns, "I ^ ,,. 

. ,,^ ,, ,, , >• Fence viewers. 

A. Y\ . Goddard, j 

George Cushing, Pound keeper. 

Charles Wild, } 

Elijah Corey, [■ Committee on Town accounts. 

Ebenr. Heath, j 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 



The Cemetaiy Committee made the following Report 
which was accepted by vote : 

CEMETARY COM. REPORT. 
The Cemetary Committee of the Town of Brookline respectfully 
Report, That in accordance with a vote of the Town in Feb., 1841, they 
have covered the front Avail of the burial ground with a hammered 
Granite Caping of 18 inches in width, and six inches in thickness at the 
centre, sloping to 4£ inches in thickness on both sides, making a sub- 
stantial & durable covering to the wall. 



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Since making our last animal report, about half of the gravel bank has 
been excavated for an avenue, and a partition Avail against the bank 
adjoining the land of Caleb Clark has been commenced and extended 
35 ft. The remainder of this gravel bank ■will probably be all removed 
to repair the highways the ensuing year, and the avenue through it and 
around the whole grounds be completed, provided your committee should 
succeed in selling a few more burial lots to defray the expence of com- 
pleting the partition bank Avail. 

About one hundred additional ornamental trees have been set the past 
year, of which about 30 were killed by the extremely dry season, & 
which your committee intend to replace the ensuing spring and also to 
continue the row of elms out side the front Avail. Sales of tAvo more 
'burial lots have been made the past season, making a total of 8 lots sold, 
and the two high banks in front of the grounds have been covered 
with loam. 

At the time your committee presented their last annual report, their 
Treasurer's accounts were not made up, by reason of the unfinished state 
of several contracts. An abstract will therefore be now presented 
embracing the whole receipts & expenditures from the begining to this 
date. ( hnitting the proceeds of the Toavii's land sold by your committee 
& the amount paid for the burial ground lot, which were particularly 
described in our report of last year & Avhich amounts balanced each 
other. Our Treasurer's receipts are as follows : — 



Reed, from Toavii Treasurer in 1840 

Reed, for sale of 7 burial lots . 

For sale of remnants of lumber & Old fence 

For trees set on private lots . 

From Town Treasurer in 1841 

Total amt. of receipts 



$407 


35 


249 


50 


15 


25 


7 




250 





$929 10 



The disbursments are as folloAvs : 

Pd. Bill of carpenter work 

Pd. Millet's bill painting .... 

Pd. D. Whitney's bill Labour . 

Pd. Sawing & plaining to Pt. Floor'g Estabt. 

Pd. Russell's bill for building Avail . 

Pd. S. Snow's bill painting 

Pd. J. Huffs bill labour .... 

Pd. Perrie's bill seder posts 

Pd. S. Philbrick's bill paints, repairing gates 

Pd. Woodward's bill surveying 

Pd. D. Whitney's bill labour . 

Pd. S. S. C. Jones' bill nails <5cc 



$36 


25 


24 


38 


15 


32 


31 


10 


93 


27 


3 




101 


83 


6 


50 


41 


33 


4 




42 


75 


7 


G2 



$407 35 



Meeting, 



Pd. bill lumber & posts 

Pel. Kenrick's bill trees 

Pd. bill stone caping. 

Pd. bill laying stone 

Pd. J. Huff's bill labour 

Pd. D.Whitney's do. do. 

Pd. bills Lead. Iron -work &c. 



Pd. bill of labour to D. Mahoney 

Total anit. of disbursement- . 
Leaving a bal. in Treas. of 



rch 7, 1842. 




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69 67 

203 75 
18 20 

28 26 

29 41 
11 02 


407 35 


pd. by Town 


16 





460 80 



$868 


15 


23 




$891 


15 


37 


95 



§929 10 



From the returns made to your committee by the sexton it appears 
that eighteen interments have been made in our burial ground during the 
year 1841. And three adults & one infant inhabitants of Brookline 
have been conveyed out of the Town for interment — as follows — viz. : 



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Meeting, March 7, 1842. .">5 

A discussion arose respecting the powers of the Cemetary 
Committee. 

Voted, That the subject be indefinitely postponed. 

Voted, That this meeting be adjourned one fortnight from 
this day at two O'clock p. m. 

Attest: Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brooldin<\ 

Greeting : 

You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, within three days of the date hereof, to notify 
and summon each of the persons mentioned below, to appear 
before me, within seven days from the time you shall give 
such notice, to take the Oath prescribed by law to the office 
to which they are respectfully chosen, Daniel Sanderson, 
David Coolidge & Thomas Griggs as Selectmen, Samuel 
Philbrick & Seth T. Thayer as assessors, Charles Stearns, 
Jr., as assessor & surveyor of highways, Artemas. Newell 
as Collector & Treasurer, Elisha Stone as constable & 
surveyor of wood & lumber, Stephen S. C. Jones as sur- 
veyor of wood & Lumber. Elijah Corey, Jr., Oliver 
Whyte, Charles Pulsifer, Thomas Quimby, Joseph White, 
Phineas Goodnough, Samuel Hills, John W. Warren, Hugh 
M. Sanborn & Daniel Pierce as surveyors of Highways. 
Albert Woodsom, William Clement, Frankline Stone, Joseph 
L. White, Amos Snow and Edward Hall as Field Drivers. 
Marshal Stearns and Abijah Warren Goddard as Fence 
Viewers. Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant 
with your doings thereon within ten days from the date 
hereof, given under my hand and seal this eighth day of 

March, 1842. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk, [l.s.] 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March l">. 1s4l'. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within named per- 
sons as within directed. 

Elisha Skim:. Constable of Brookline. 



56 Brookline Toicn Records. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 11, 1842. 

Then personally appeared and took the oath prescribed to 

the Office to which they had been respectively chosen the 
following persons on the day of the date set against their 
names : 

March 11, 1842. Marshal Stearns, Fence Viewer. 

11, Oliver "Why te, Surveyor of Highways. 

11. Daniel Sanderson, Selectman. 

11. David Coolidge, Selectman. 

" 11, Thomas Griggs, Selectman. 

11, Elisha Stone, Constable. 

11, Elisha Stone, Surveyor of wood & lumber. 

12, Phineas Goodnough, Surveyor of Highways. 
12, H. M. Sanborn. Surveyor of Highways. 

14. Stephen S. C. Jones, Surveyor of wood & lumber 

14, Amos Snow, Field Driver. 

14, Elijah Corey, Jr., Surveyor of Highways. 

15, Albert Woodsom, Field Driver. 

16, Thomas Quimby, Surveyor of Highways. 

16, Daniel Pierce, Surveyor of Highways. 

17, Samuel Hills, Surveyor of Highways. 

18, Edward Hall, Field Driver. 

18, Artemas Newell, Collector and Treasurer. 

19, Charles Pulsifer, Surveyor of Highways. 
19, John W. Warren, Surveyor of Highways. 

" 21, Abijah W. Goddard, Fence Viewer. 

29, Timothy Corey. Assessor. 

29, Charles Stearns, Jr., Assessor. 

29, Charles Stearns, Jr., Surveyor of Highways. 

April 30, Abijah Warren Goddard, Assessor. 

Otis Withixgtox, Town Clerk. 



March 21, 1842. 

At an adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of Brookline 
from 7th inst., at 2 o'clock p. m. 

Abijah Warren Goddard, Moderator. 

Voted, To proceed to proceed to the business of the day. 

Voted, To excuse Seth T. Thayer as assessor. 



Meeting, March 21, 1842. 57 

Abijah W. Goddard was chosen unanimously, Assessor, in 
place of Mr. S. T. Thayer excused. 

Voted, To excuse Mr. Sam'l Philbrick as assessor. 
On balloting for assessor in place of Mr. Philbrick — 

Mr. James Robinson had 23 Votes. 
" Samuel Craft had 4 

" Sam'l rhilbrick '• 1 " 

Mr. Robinson being chosen, declined accepting. 

Second trial, Dea. Timothy Corey was chosen. T. Corey 
had 45 Votes, Mr. David Coolidge had 3 Votes. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be requested to present 
annually a report of the receipts and expenditures of the 
Treasury acording to law. 

Voted, To act on the appropriations. 

Voted, That the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars 
be raised in this Town by Taxes the present year — which 
shall be appropriated to the various purposes enumerated in 
the Report of the committee appointed to audit the Treas- 
urer's accounts ; and which shall be applied, according to the 
division therein specified. 

It is further ordered that the sum of one thousand Dollars 
appropriated to the repair of highways shall be assessed and 
collected into the Treasury, in the same manner that the 
Town expences are assessed & collected ; and the same 
shall be divided between the several highway districts 
according to the division of the last proceeding years. And 
that the Selectmen be authorized to draw Orders on the 
Treasury in payment of each Surveyor's Acct. to the amount 
of each District's proportion ; when they shall be satisfied 
that the same has been expended in repairing the roads 
according to the requirements of law, and not otherwise. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to expend on 
the highways; at their discretion, a sum not exceeding one 
hundred and fifty dollars. 

The Committee on Sale of Fire Engine Norfolk made the 
following Report, which was accepted by vote, — 



58 Brookline Town Records. 

REPORT OF COM. ON SALE OF FIRE ENGINE NORFOLK. 

The Committee appointed by the Town of Brookline, to unite with the 
Selectmen <>f Roxbury in disposing of The Fire Engine Norfolk wonld 

now respectfully report. — 

That after making several applications to said Selectmen, your com- 
mittee finally succeeded in connexion Avith them in effecting a sale of said 
Engine & hose in the best manner they could accomplish though at a 
low price — as follows. Viz. : 

Fire Engine Norfolk $175 

Old hose 97 ft. at 20c per ft 19 40 

3 hose joints @ $1 each 3 



Making a total of $197 40 

From which deduct Amt. paid over to the Selectmen of Rox-"| 
bury in proportion to the Original Subscription from > 
Inhabitants of Roxbury in purchasing the same . J 50 



Leaving a balance of ....... $147 +<> 

Which amount has been paid over to the Treasurer of this Town. 

( in behalf of the Committee. 
Brookline, 1st March, 1842. S. Philbrick, Chairman. 



The following report was read and accepted : 

The Selectmen having been chosen as a committee at the last annual 
meeting to cause to be erected in suitable places Posts & Boards with 
the name of the Streets thereon, have attended to that duty and beg leave- 
to report the expence as follows : 

Elisha Stone's bill for work on Posts & Boards finding 

stuff for Boards and putting up the same 
S. D. Bate's bill for painting & lettering :'«7 Boards 

C. v<: F. A. Heath's bill for Posts 

Silas Snow's bill for Painting Post & '2 boards helping put 

up the same 

Joseph Huff's bill for carting Posts from Boston . 

S. S. C. Jones' bill for carting boards to & from Boston 

Sum Total . . $107 7< 

GUIDE BOARDS. 

They also report the Guide Boards in the Town to be up in all place? 
necessary, as the law directs. 

All of which is respectfully Submitted. 



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Signed Charles Stearns, Jr., | 

James Robinson. V Selection n, 

B. B. Davis. J 



Brookxixe, March 7. 1842. 




Trustees. 



Meeting, March 21, 1842. 59 

The trustees of the School fund made the following report 
which was accepted by vote : 

SCHOOL FUND. 

The trustees appointed by the town to report the state of the School 
fund, to whom loaned, and also security of the same, have discharged 
that duty and report as follows: 

To Theopholus Dame's note and mortgage on house and 

land in Brighton, with policy of insurance . ... $435 84 

Samuel Brown's note and mortgage on house and land 

in Boston, with policy of insurance .... 

Charles Hasting' s Note and mortgage on land and buildings 

in Brighton, ■with policy of insurance .... 
Edward Hall's note and mortgage on land and buildings in 

this town, with policy of insurance .... 

Daniel Kingsbury's note and mortgage on land and buildings 

in Newton, with policy of insurance . . , . 
Reuben Hunting's note and mortgage on land and buildings 

in Brighton ......... 

Total sum of said fund $4531 00 

AVe are confident that the above security is satisfactory. 

CharLes Stearns, Jr., 
James Robinson, 
Daniel Sanderson, 
a. w. goddard, 
By a vote of the town the trustees were to audit the treasurer's 
account, and report to the town. They have performed that duty and 
report as follows : 
The treasurer has charged himself with money received for 

principal and interest for the last two years the sum of si'] 13 1 1 
The treasurer has reed, of one individual .... L520 7:: 

The trustees thought advisable to add of the int. . . . 29 27 

By the direction of the trustees thai sum has been loaned 
to Reuben Hunting with security before named. The 
treasurer has also paid by orders drawn by the Selectmen $581 cj 

Has also paid at the register'- office 1 .",0 

$2133 11 

Thje above named sums having been drawn leaves the treasury without 
funds. 

The trustees find the treasurer's books have been faithfully kept and 
all interest collected that is due. 

All which is respectfully submitted by 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 1 
James ROBINSON, ~ 

Dante! Sanderson, \ Committee. 

A. W. GODDARD, 

Voted, That the Assessors be allowed two dollars per day 
for their services. 

Voted, That the subject of High school be indefinitely 
postponed. 

Voted, That this meeting be disolved. 

Attest : Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



60 



BrooMine Town Records. 



The following list of persons liable to do military duty in 
Brookline were returned by the Assessors in May, 1842 : 



John Smith 
Benjn. Owen 
Jacob Leavitt 
David S. Coolidge 
Charles Coolidge 
David Weymouth 
Martin Carey 
Alford Bennitt 
Freeman Ayers 
George Otis 
Charles Morse 
Phineas Walker 
Thos. Bragnam 
Chas. Robinson 
Franklin Chamberlain 
Hollis Gerry 
Charles Tolman 
Timothy Leeds 
Isaac Burrows 
Edward Secomb 
John Gustiu 
P. J. Bachelor 
B. Richardson 
J. Webster 
Thos. Seaverns 
John Gibbs 
Stone 
Peter Tenan 
Silas Piper 
Miles Randal 
Andrew Dearborn 
James Whitney 
Michael Whitney 
Aaron Cotton 
Calvin Smith 
Harrison Merrell 
Daniel Walker 
John Wilkins 
Chas. D. Perry 
Isaac N. Fogg 
Moses Withington 
John Kenrick 
Royal Woodward 
George Stoddard 
John Dustin 
T. T. Barker 



Uriah Blaisdell 
Oliver Pray 
Amos Whittemore 
Sam'l Bryant 
Benjn. Gentleman 
Robert Moody 
George Bartlett 
Joseph Pike 
William Low 
Epriam Low 
Otis Withington 
Jacob Hurd 
John Ford 
Albert Woodson 
Agel Lovejoy 
Clark L. Haynes 
Benjn. AVoods 
Stephen Hyde 
John Hanson 
Zemri Worcester 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
John Rice 
Samuel Page 
Isaac Hooper 
Benjn. Austin 
John Boynton 
Daniel Smith 
Aaron Hurd 
Atmon Andrews 
Paul Mahay 

Stone 
James Ray 
Charles Reed 
Ebenr. Reed 
John Nason 
Bradford Nason 
Frederick Miller 
Ira Box 
George Brown 
William Brown 
Oliver Whyte Jr. 
James Felker 
Horace Cotisens 
Oliver Cousens 
Ivorv Ross 



Sam'l A. Robinson 
Jesse R. Brown 
William Griggs 
Charles Guild 
Sylvanus Kimball 
Alford Page 
Ira Lerow 
David Boynton 
Uriah Morrison 
Timothy Dane 
Nath'l Fry 
Elial G. Hatch 
Elkhannah Foss 
Nath'l Chapin 
James Fisher 
Samuel Clark 
Isaiah Folsom 
Aaron Hanson 
George Hildreth 
Charles Whitney 
Swain Clement 
Dean Fairbanks 
Edward Allen 
E. A. Ranney 
Moody Page 
Hiram Pettingals 
George Merrill 
William P. Brewer 
Ralph Washburn 
Charles Smith 
Charles Heath 
Russell Bean 
Alvin Loker 
Hosea Bartlett 
John Barry 
Thomas French 
Alva Hall 
Charles Richards 
xVmisa Huntress 
Sam'l Townsend Jr. 
Thos. N. Woodward 
Chancy Woodward 
Isaac Townsend 
Thaxter Prouty 
George Craft 
Charles Craft 



Militia List, .1842. 61 

Aaron Mcintosh Augustus T. Newell Caleb Craft Jr. 

Edward Haskell Benjn. Perkins Joseph Kimball 

James Hanson Samuel Foss Stephen Perkins 

Charles Warren Thomas Townsend 

John W. Warren John Huntress 

Simon Warren Dexter Johnson 

George Dunn Wm. 1!. Lawrence 

William Clement John Evans 

Charles Hoyt John II. Harvey 

Cochran David Whitney 

Joel < . Pettingale Oran Rice 

Alanso Andrews William Burnham 
Joseph Gnttersi hi Gulliver 

Abijah W. Goddard Samuel Sutton Jr. 

William Whitton Lyman Morse 

George W. Goldsmith Henry Whitney 

it;; 
Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts qualified by the Constitution to Vote for 
Representatives in the General Court, holden on the 
eighteenth day of July being the third Monday of said 
month, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- 
two, for the purpose of giving in their Votes for a Represen- 
tative of said Commonwealth, in the Congress of the United 
States, for District Number nine. 

The whole number of persons who gave in their Votes was 
ascertained as is directed in the Revised Statutes (Chap. 4, 
Sec. 13) by counting the number of seperate ballots given 
in, and the whole number of ballots was ninety-five. 

And the whole number of votes given in were sorted, 
counted, recorded, and declaration therefore made as by Law 
is directed, and were for the following persons : — 

Samuel G. Goodrich, sixty. 
Ezra Wilkinson, thirty-two. 

William Jackson, three. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



62 BrooMine Town Records. 

WARRANT FOR NOVEMBER MEETING. 

To Elisha Stone,. Constable of the Town of BrooMine, 

Greeting : 
You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to notify and warn the Male Inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline, being twenty-one years of age, and 
who having resided in the Commonwealth one year, and 
within the town six months next preceeding and who shall 
have paid any State or County tax which has been assessed 
upon them within two years last past, and also every citi- 
zen who shall by law be exempt from taxation and in all 
other respects be qualified as above : To meet at the Town 
Hall in said Brookline on the second Monday in November 
next being the fourteenth day of said month at One O'clock 
in the afternoon at which time the polls will be opened to 
act on the following articles, Viz. : 

1st. To see if the town will send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 2. To give in their Votes to the Selectmen for Governor and 
Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth, three Senators for Norfolk 
County, for a Representative to the twenty-Seventh Congress of the 
United States, for District Number Nine, in place of Hon. Wm. S. Hast- 
ings deceased, for a Representative to the twenty-eighth Congress of the 
United States for District Number eight, and for a Representitive to the 
next General Court, if approved of by the town, all the above officers will 
be voted for on one ticket. 

The legal voters of the Town of Brookline are notified to 
meet at four o'clock p. m. to act on the following articles, 
Viz.: 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2d. To see if the town will grant and appropriate money to pay for 
the Hay Scales. 

3. To see if the town will indemnify the former Selectmen for the 
expence of defending the suit at law, which was brought to recover 
damages for an alledged error in judgement while in the discharge of 
their duty as Selectmen in the year 1840. 

Given under our hands and seals this thirty- first day ot 
October eighteen hundred and forty-two. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] 
David Coolidge, [l.s.] 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] 



Meeting, November 14, 1842. 63 

Norfolk, ss. Brookllxe, Nov. 8, 1842. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within named per- 
sons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within mentioned. 

Elizha Stunk. Constable. 



Agreeably to the foregoing warrant, a meeting was held 
at the Town Hall. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

For Governor : 

Whole number of Votes given in were L63. 
John Davis of Worcester had One hundred and six votes. 

Marcus Morton had tifty-six vote-. 
Samuel A. Walker had one vote. 

For Lieutenant-Governor. Whole No. 165. 

George Hull of Sandisfield had one hundred and seven votes. 
Henry 11. Child- had flfty-eight vote-. 

For Senator-. Whole No. 165. 

Luther Metcalf of Medway had < Hie hundred and seven. 
B. F. Copeland of Roxbury had one hundred and seven. 
Appletou Howe of Weymouth had one hundred and seven. 
Artemas Brown had fif ty-eighl vote-. 

Benjamin V. French 

Isaac 11. Wrighl 

For Representative to the twenty-eighth Congress for District Number 
eight. Whole Xo. 169. 
John Quincy Adams had One hundred and eleven votes. 
Ezra Wilkinson had fifty-eight Votes. 

For Representative to the twenty-seventh Congress for District Number 

nine in place of Hon.Wm. S. Hastings deceased. Whole No. 168 Votes. 
William Jackson of Newton had one hundred and ten vote-. 
Ezra Wilkinson had fifty-eight votes. 

For Representative to the next General Court. 

Whole Number of votes One hundred and sixty-four. 
Thomas Kendall had one hundred and seven votes. 
James Bartlett had tifty-six votes. 
A. H. Clapp had one vote. 

Voted, To close the Poll at i past 3 O'clock. 



64 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, Mr. Abijah W. Goddard Moderator. 
Voted, That a sum not exceeding 300 dollars be appro- 
priated for the payment of a new hay scales provided by 
the Selectmen, and that any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated be applied to that use, and if there 
should be none, that the Treasurer be authorized to borrow 
the same. 

Voted, 68 to 56, by polling the house, That a Committee 
of five be nominated by the Chair to report at next March 
Meeting — on the third article in the warrant. 
Voted, Samuel Philbrick,"] 
Harrison Fay, 

James Bartlett, )> Committee. 
Timothy Corey, 



George Griggs, 
Voted, To adjourn Sine die 



Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR DECEMBER MEETING. 

1o JElisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts to notify and warn the male Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline being twenty-one years of age and 
who having resided within the Commonwealth one year and 
within the town six months next preceeding and having paid 
any State or County tax which has been assessed upon them 
Avithin the Commonwealth within two years last past ; and 
also every citizen who shall by law be exempt from taxation 
and in all other respects qualified as above mentioned, to 
meet at the Town Hall in said Brookline on Monday the 
Nineteenth day of December current, at One O'clock in the 
afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened, 
to give in their votes to the Selectmen, for one Representa- 
tive to the Twenty-seventh Congress of the United States 
for District Number Nine that is an inhabitant of the said 
Congressional District, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 



Meeting, December 19, 1842. 65 

death of Hon. William S. Hastings, and to represent them 
in the Congress of the United States of America until the 
fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and forty-three. 

The legal Voters of the Town of Brookline are notified to 
meet at half-past three o'clock p. m. to act on the following 
articles, Viz. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 
2d. To revise the Jury Box. 

3d. To See if the Town will make an alteration in the appropriation 
of money on the highway near the estate of Arhy Hyde. 

Given under our hands and seals this seventh day of Decem- 
ber, one thousand eight hundred and forty -two. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] 
David Coolidge. [l.s.] 

Thomas Griggs. [l.s.] 



Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Dec. 13, 1842. 

By virtue of the within warrant i have notified & warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time & place for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline, qualified by the Constitution to Vote for Repre- 
sentatives to the General Court, holden on the Nineteenth 
day of December, being the third Monday of said month, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- 
two, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Representa- 
tive of said Commonwealth in Congress of the United States, 
for District Number Nine. 

The whole number of persons who gave in their votes was 
ascertained as is directed in the Revised Statutes (Chap. 4, 
Sec. 13) by counting the number of seperate ballots given 
in, and the whole number of ballots was ninety. 
5 



60 Brookline Town Records. 

And the whole number of Votes given in were sorted, 
counted, recorded, and declaration thereof made as by Law 
is directed — 

And were for the following persons : 

William Jackson, fifty-seven. 
Ezra Wilkinson. twenty-nine. 
Theodore Lyman. three. 
Samuel < r. I roodrich, one. 

Meeting dissolved by Vote at ]/^ past 3 O'clock. . 



Mr. Abijah W. Goddard was then chosen Moderator. 
The following names proposed by the Selectmen for the 
Jury Box were accepted by vote : 

When Drawn. When Drawn. 

Samuel Philbrick. Otis Withington, Mch. 6, 1843. 

March 6, 1843. Marshal Stearns. Harrison Fay. Feb. 9,1844. 

Doc. 19, 1842. Daniel Sanderson. Michael Mellon. Dec. 5,1843. 

Oct. L844. David Coolidge. James Eobinson, March 6,, 1843. 

Deo. 2, 1844. Bela Stoddard. Moses Withington, March 6, 1843. 

April 15, L843. George W. Stearns. Samuel A. Walker, Sept. 4,1843. 

Doc 19, 1842. Moses Jones. George Graft, Feb. 9,1843. 

Jan. 27. 1845. Simon Warren. George Bell, April 8, 1844. 

April 8, 1844. William Dearborn. George Babcock, April 15, 1843. 

Voted, That the third Article in the warrant be indefi- 
nately postponed. 

Adjourned without day. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 

PETITION OF JEREMIAH LYON AND OTHERS TO BE ANNEXED 
TO BROOKLINE. 

To >Ik' Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled: 

The undersigned, inhabitants of that part of Roxbury which adjoins 
the oast part of Brookline, and residing in the immediate vicinity of the 
churches, school houses, and the Post Office of Brookline : — Respectfully 
petition your Honorable body that a line may be drawn dividing Roxbury 
and Brookline, through the centre of Muddy Brook, so 'called; beginning 
where the said Brook runs near the intersection of the Mill Dam Road 
with the County Road, and pursuing the line of the said brook through 



Meeting, February 15, 1843. 67 

the estate of Mr. Henry Ward, until it meets an old dam: from thence 
running Straight, nearly in a southwesterly direction, to Perkins Street, 
thence upon Perkins street to the monument which marks the present 

boundary line. 

Your petitioners would thereby become inhabitants of Brookline, and 
able to avail themselves of churches, school houses, and the Post Office 
near to them, very much to their convenience, and without injury to 
any one. 

They therefore pray that the said described line may be established as 

the boundary line hereafter, between Roxbury and Brookline. 

And as in duty bound, will ever pray. 

Jeremiah Lyon, and others. 

Roxbury, Jan. 25, L843. 



ORDER OF NOTICE. 
Commonwealth <>f Massachi setts. 

In Senate, Feb. 8, 1843. 

On the Petition aforesaid. Ordered, That the Petitioners cause an 

attested copy of their Petition, with this order thereon, to be served on 

each of the Town Clerks of the towns of Roxbury and Brookline seven 

days, at least, before the twentienth day of February instant, and also 

like copies to be published twice in the Bay State Democrat and Boston 
Atlas, the lasl publication to be Ave days, at least, before the 20th day of 
February instant, that all persons interested may then appear, and show 
cause, if any they have, why the Prayer of said Petition should not be 
granted. 

Sent down for concurrence. 

Lewis Josselyn, < 'lerk. 

Is the House of Representitives, Feb. 9, 1843. 

Concurred. 

L. S. Cushing, Clerk. 

A true Copy. Attest : Lewis Josselyn, 

( 'lerk of ihi' Senate. 



WARRANT FOR FEBRUARY. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts to notify and warn the Male Inhabitants of 

said town being twenty-one years of age, and who having 

resided within the Commonwealth one year and within the 



68 Brookline Town Records. 

town six months next preceeding and having paid any State 
or County tax which has been assessed upon them within the 
Commonwealth within two years last past ; and also every 
citizen who shall by law be exempt from taxation and in all 
other respects qualified as above, To meet at the Town Hall 
in said town on Wednesday the fifteenth day of February 
instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon, to act on the 
following articles, Viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To hear and act on the Order of Notice from the Legislature 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the Petition of Jeremiah 
Lyon and others, relative to being set oft' from Roxbury and annexed to 
Brookline. 

Given under our hands and seals this tenth day of February 
eighteen hundred and forty-three. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ^ 

David Coolidge, [l.s.] > /Selectmen. 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) 



Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Feb. 13, 1843. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified & warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elish.v Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
A true Copy. 

Attests : Otis Witiiixgton, Town Clk. 



At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline, legally 
warned and assembled on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of 
February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, — 

Deacon Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator. 

Voted, 42 to 12, That we accede to the prayer of the 
Petition of Jeremiah Lyon and others. 

Voted, That we instruct our Representative to inform the 
Court's Committee of the doings of the Town. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 69 

WARRANT FOR MARCH MEETING. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brook-line, 

Greeting : 

You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to notify and warn the Male Inhabitants of 
said town, being twenty-one years of age, and who having 
resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the 
town six months next preceeding and having paid any state 
or County tax which has been assessed upon them within 
the Commonwealth within two years last past. And also 
every citizen who shall by law be exempt from taxation and 
in all other respects qualified as above mentioned, 

To meet at the Town Hall in said town on the first Mon- 
day of March next, being the sixth day of said month, at 
One O'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
Polls will be opened, to act on the following articles, Viz. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 
2d. To hear the reports of Committees. 

3d. To give in their votes for County Treasurer. 

4th. To choose Town ( officers as the law directs. 

5th. To see if the Town will grant to the Rev. John Pierce, D. D., a 
lot in the Cemetery. 

6th. To see if the Town will grant to the Congregational and Baptist 
Societies each a lot in the Cemetery, and authorise the Cemetery Com- 
mittee to execute deeds accordingly. 

7th. To see Avhat measures the Town will take relative to providing 
an establishment for their Poor. 

8th. To see if the town will take any measure relative to enlarging 
the School House yard in the North District. 

9th. To see what the Town will do respecting the Centre School. 

10th. To see what the Town will do relative to a School Library. 

11th. To see what the town will do relative to the alleged grievances 
of several Individuals in connection with the Cemetery. 

12th. To raise money for the expences of the Town the current year, 
and make appropriations for the same. 

Given under our hands and seals this twentieth day of Feb- 
ruary, eighteen hundred and forty-three. 

[L.s.n 

David Coolidge, [l.s.] > Selectmen. 
Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) 

Norfolk, ss. Brookxine, March 4th, 1S4:>. 

By virtue of this warrant I have notified & warned the within named 
persons to appear at the time & place for the purposes within mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline* 



70 Brookline Town Records. 

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline legally warned 
and assembled on the Sixth day of March, 1843, for the 
purpose of choosing Town Officers, receive reports of com- 
mittees, give in their Votes for County Treasurer, raise 
money for the expenses of the Town the current year, and 
act on other business specified in the warrant, — 

Meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. John Pierce, D.D. 

After reading the warrant, 

Mr. Abijah Warren Goddard was chosen Moderator — 13 
votes. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk, 37 out of 38 votes, sworn. 

The Treasurer and Auditor's report was read and accepted 
by vote as follows : — 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

Agreeably to a Vote of the town at the last Annual Meeting the 
Treasurer would respectfully Submit the following report of the receipts 
and expenditures of the town during the past year : 

There was cash on hand at the last auditing of the accounts 

in February, 1842 .$1143 54 

Rec'd from the State Treasurer, on a/c State Paupers . 21 28 

Rec'd from the State Treasury the Town of Brookline's pro- 
portion of the income from the Massachusetts School 
Fund for 1842 32 70 

Whole amount of taxes levied for 1842 . . . .$4660 71 

less the amount of abatements by assessors . 198 08 4462 63 

Rec'd from Mr. Stephen S. C. Jones proceeds of Hay Scales 75 82 

Rec'd of Mr. Jones for Gun Powder belonging to the town 

which has been stored for several years .... 8 25 

Eec'd of T)ea. Thomas Griggs, Treasurer of the Brookline 

School Fund, the income for the past year . . 252 37 

Making the whole amount of receipts into the Treasury 

during the past year, including the balance on hand at 

the last Auditing of the accounts 5996 59 

There has been paid from the Treasury by order of the 
Selectmen, for sundry expences as will appear more in 
detail in this report 4656 64 



Leaving a balance in the Treasury at the present time of . 1339 95 



The different items of the expences of the town have been separated 
and will appear, under their proper heads as follows : — 

Paupers. 

There have been supported, and relieved by the town during 
the past year, twelve persons at an expence. including 
medical attendance, of 745 63 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. - 1 

S.S the town may not generally know the situation of the 
poor of the town, I herewith give a more particular account . 
with the expence attending the support of each. 

Eliza Thompson, a young woman boarding in a fam- 
ily in Westborough at an expence tor board exclu- 
sive of 1 doll, per week, there has been paid tor 
her support, including some arrearages tor board 
last year .-••*■ 
Sarah Bond, a woman who is at presenl in "Boston, 
there has been paid for her support, mostly tor 
board in the House of Correction . • • ■ . - 
Two children of Amasa Jackson, boarding in a Earn- __ 

ily in Newton, there has been paid for their support > 

Within the past year there has been proi ision made 
for one of them, so that at present he is no ex- 
pence to the town. 

Mrs. Kenrick, occupies a part of Mr. Hersey's house 
' andboards herself at an erpence to the town during 

the past year, including Med. attendance, oi . . i* a> 
William C. AspinwaU boards with his mother, the 
widow Anna Aspinwall. in this town, .here has been 
paid for his support, including medical attendance 
6.70, and nurses to attend him in his sickness, with 
some arrearages for board last year . ■ . 271 o 
Samuel Thompson & his wife board with Mr. Hiram 
Bean, in this town, at an expence for board exclu- 
sively of $2.75 per week, there has been paid tor 
their support, including medical attendance, cloth- 
ing, &c. ••■•■■■ ' 
Samuel Walcott in the House of Industry in Boston, 
there has been paid for his board in the House of 
Industry during the past year . 
Frederick Miller, a foreigner, who was taken sick 
while in the employment of Mr. Corey, and was 
sent to the Mass. Gen. Hospital, and there was paid 
by the town for his board there . 
Amasa Jackson is not at present any expence to the 
town except while sick. There has been paid for 
medical advice and medicines during the years 1841 

&42 • • • 

Anna Dana has received some trilling assistance dur- 
ing the past year, amounting to 
Making the amount that has been paid from the 

Treasury during the past year as above for the ^_ ^ 

Poor 



L55 31 



36 42 



7 90 
10 00 



72 Brooldine Town Records. 

[Brought up] 74.1 63 

Schools. 
The amount paid for the expence of Education during 

the year 1502 34 

Expence of teachers & fuel &c. in South School Dis- 
trict 262 44 

Expence of do. North School District . . . 652 11 

Expence of do. Middle School District . . . 343 29 

Expence of do. Centre School 244 50 

Making the amount paid from the Treasury since 
last Audit .$1502 34 

2247 97 
Highways. 
The expence of Roads during the past year has been 1040 50 

There has been paid to Sam'l Hills for the first South 

District 60 00 

Paid Phineas Goodnough for the 2d South District . 80 00 
John W. Warren for the third South District . 120 00 
Charles Stearns, Jr., for the first North District 100 00 
Elijah Corey, Jr., for the Second North District 170 00 
Oliver Whyte for the third North District . 77 00 

Charles S. Pulsifer for the First Middle District 100 00 
Thomas C. Quimby for the Second Middle district 20 00 
Joseph White for the Third Middle district . 40 00 
Hugh M. Sanborn for Eastern Turnpike . . 160 00 
Daniel Pierce for Western Turnpike . . . 100 00 
Nathaniel Pulsifer for repairing the road be- 
tween [the turnpike and the Newton line, not 
belonging to any district . . . . . 13 50 
Showing the expence of Repairs of Roads as above 

to be 1040 50 

N. B. Should the town make any alteration in the districts 
by connecting the first and second middle districts, as many 
think"' advisable, it would perhaps be well to annex this last 
named piece of road (between the turnpike & Newton Line) 
to the same district. 

Town < )iik i:i:s. 

Under this head has been included the making and 
collecting Taxes, Stationary, Blank books, >.<; Print- 
ing, l t rent of room for Selectmen and Assessors. 
Salary of Officers. &c, amounting in all to . . 385 ill 

Paid forecasting Taxes and for entertainment of As- 
sessors & other expenees of assessing Taxes during 
the time 36 00 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 73 

[Brought up] 3288 17 

Paid to Elisha Stoue for warning town meetings and 

other services as constable during the year . .17 50 

Taid to the Selectmen for their services during the 

year at 25 dollars each 75 00 

Paid to Mr. Otis Withington for services as Town 

Clerk, and Recording Births & Deaths, ,£c. . . 25 00 

Paid Lyceum Hall for the use of a room for Select- 
men & Assessors during the year . . . . 25 00 

Paid A. Newell for Collecting Taxes & services as 

Treasurer, and with the Selectmen during the year 166 ">1 

Paid Charles Stearns, Jr.. Timothy Corey and A. W. 
Goddard for their services as Assessors during the 
year at $6 each 15 00 

Paid for stationary, printing Tax Bills, Notifications 
for Town Meetings, Postage bill, and Blank Books 

for Clerks Office, &c 25 60 

Making the expence under the bead of Town 

Officers, as above 385 61 

Repairs of Public Buildings. 

There has been paid to Mr. stone for Carpenters 
Work, to Mr. Carr for Masons work, to Mr. Snow 
for Glazing, and Mr. Lambert for Blacksmith work, 
each small bills for repairs of School Bouses, or 
Town Hall. Amt'g in all to 21 o:> 

Guide Posi s. 

There has been paid to Mr. Stone for repairs of 

Guide Posts 75 

Fire Engine. 

There has been paid from the Treasury for bills that 
have been presented & the poll tax of the members 

of the Engine Co., &c, in all 70 17 

as folio wn : 

Paid to Mr. Hunneman & others for repairs of the 

engine during the year . . . . . . 37 77 

Paid for taking care of the engine two months, from 

March to May. 1812. to A. H. Clapp . . .6 67 

Paid for Refreshments furnished to the Engine Co. 

during the year . . . . . . . 11 03 

Paid 1G Engine-men Poll Tax— 1.50 each . . . 24 00 



Amounting in all as above to .... 79 17 

There is a bill due to A. H. Clapp for taking care 
of the Engine from May to the present time, the bill 
not having been rendered, has not been paid, which 
will probably make the whole expence of the tire de- 
partment during the year about One Hundred Dollars. 



74 Brookline Town Records. 

[Brought up] 
Taxes. 
County Taxes for 1842 448 40 

Taxes on Xcedhani Woodland 2 04 

Incidental, or Extraordinary Expexces. 
There has been paid during the past year for sundry 
expences that have been classed under this head, as 
follows: 430 85 



For an Iron Safe for the use of the Town, with the 
expence of Trucking and putting into the Town 
Hall 103 25 

For a New Platform balance for the use of the Town 
for a Hay Scale including all expence for stone 
Avail &c 290 50 

For Cash paid L. Harrington of Boston for damage 
sustained by the upsetting of a chaise, in conse- 
quence of a defect in the highways in this town . 25 no 

For Cash paid Military Bounty to one soldier, Mr. J. 

W. Blanchard 5 00 

Paid for repairs of Hearse Harness .... 1 00 

Paid for storage of Gun Powder in the Koxbury and 

( ambridge Magazine for several years past . 6 10 



450 14 



Making the sum of Contingent Expences . . 430 S5 



And making the whole amount paid from the Treas- 
ury since the last Auditing of the Accounts . 4656 64 

Which being deducted from the amount of receipts, 
.s ."">'.>'. HI. •">'.>, leaves a balance in the Treasury, includ- 
ing a small amount of uncollected Taxes, of 
Thirteen Hundred & Thirty-Nine Dollars & 95 cents §1339 95 

In submitting the above report, the Treasurer would call the atten- 
tion of the town to the subject of our present financial System; it will 
be found by examining more particularly into the accounts of the town 
for the past years that the amount as shown to have been paid from the 
Treasury since the last auditors' report, does net show the expences of 
the town as they actually occurred during the year; but shows the 
amount paid for bills which had matured before the commencement of 
the year, and such of those as have l><-en presented for payment that have 
been contracted during the jear, leaving many that are not due, acording 
to our present custom of paying them, to be settled at some future time ; 
rendering it difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain with any degree of 
accuracy the "actual annual expences of the town." As a remedy for this 
evident defect in our present system, your treasurer, by the advice of 
the Selectmen, has been induced to suggest to the town, for their consid- 
eration, the propriety of establishing, by cote a regular & uniform financial 
year, to be observed by all town officers in making & settling all con- 
tracts for the town: a period, from & to which, all contracts shall be 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 75 

made and settled, in all cases where practicable. Under such an arrange- 
ment, the selectmen or other town officers, wonld be enabled general; to 
settle all contracts made under their own administration, and render an 
accurate account of the same, at the annual meeting, leaving their suc- 
cessors in office to attend to making and settling their own contracts and 
performing the duties only that rightly belong to them, and having the 
advantage in all cases of having contracts settled by the same parties 
that made them. By adopting this method the inhabitants would have 
the satisfaction, once in each year, of ascertaining the true state of the 
finances of the town. 

All of which is most respectfully Submitted. 

Artemas Newell, 

Brooklixe, March 6, 1843. Tr< iisnr* r. 

AUDITING COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 

Be CLIME, March 1. 1843. 

The undersigned having faithfully examined the accounts of the 
Treasurer find them as above reported, faithfully kept and well avouched, 
and they cheerfully award to him their approbation for the accuracy *.<: 
fidelity with which he has discharged the duties of his office for the pasl 
year. And in view of all the circumstances of the town they would 
recommend that the same sum should be raised by taxation for the 
present as was for the past year. vis., four thousand & live hundred 
dollars, according to the following 

Estimate. 

Support of Poor 750 

Repairs of Buildings 100 

" Roads loo 

Repairs of Highway 1000 

Education 1300 

Engine 150 

County & Needham tax . . . . 450 

Contingences 250 

Assessing & Collecting taxes . . .' 150 

Town officers' Salaries. >.V;c. . . . 250 

•s4.->00 
Charles Wild, ^ 

Elijah Corey, > Auditing CommitU ■ . 
Ebexr. Heath, J 

The report of the Cemetery Committee was read and 
accepted by vote as follows : — 

CEMETERY COMMITTEE REPORT. 

The cemetery committee for the town of Brookline, since presenting 
the last annual Report, have effected the further sales of five lots for 
family interments in the new burial ground, and two small lots in old 
ground, where interments had been previously made ; The proceeds of 



76 BrooMine Town Records. 

which have furnished the means for completing the broad avenue through 
the gravel ridge, and preparing for sale twelve new lots bordering on 
the broad avenue on the easterly side of the grounds ; Also for turfing 
the bank on the east and south sides of the high ridge, for procuring and 
planting an additional number of 1G0 ornamental trees and making many 
other improvements. 

The centre ridge has been dug over, covered with loom and sowed 
with grass seed ; a new survey & plan of the grounds have been made by 
E. F. Woodward, embracing all the improvements and delineating all the 
lots and avenues which have been laid out. 

The whole number of lots laid out, delineated and numbered on the 
plan is 49. Thirteen of which have been sold, besides the two small lots 
in the old ground before named. 

Applications having occasionally been made for the interment of non- 
residents, your committee have judged it expedient to institute an order 
requiring the payment of five dollars each, for all such interments, where 
no special claim of previlege existed. In consequence of offensive exha- 
lations which are occasionally emitted from Tombs built in Banks with 
the front Avail open to the atmosphere, your committee have found it 
necessary to establish an order, requiring all Tombs hereafter built, to be 
sunk below the surface level of the ground. 

Your committee have also found it necessary to restrict the erection of 
all grave-stones and monuments on the public grounds to their own 
supervision and direction. 

The Rev'd Dr. Pierce having applied for a gratuitious deed of a small 
lot of ground adjoining his Tomb on the eastern side, your committee 
considering themselves unauthorised to make such grant, would respect- 
fully recommend the passing of a vote by the Town authorising such 
grant to be made. 

The receipts of money since our last report have been as follows : 

From sales of 5 lots the past year and one lot the pre- 

ceeding year, @ $25 each .... $150 

From sales of two small lots in old ground . . 17 50 
Balance in treasury as per last report . . . 37 95 



Making- a total of • $205 45 



The disbursements have been as follows : 

Paid for ornamental trees ..... 
Paid sundry bills of Labour 

" for cedar posts, grass seed, blank deeds and) 
book for records . . . . . j 

" for l£ cords of Loom ..... 

" for turfing bank, including turf 

" for Woodward's bill for survey & plan 

" for frame & glass to enclose the plan . 2 50 $186 88 



$53 


50 


78 


38 


8 


50 


6 




35 




3 




2 


50 



Leaving a balance unexpended of 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 



77 



From the returns made by the Sexton it appears there have been Ten 
deaths in the Town & nine interments in our burial grounds the past 
year, of the following descriptions : 



Names. 


Age. 


Time of 
Death. 

1842. 


Time of 
Burial. 


Disease. 


Where 
Intered. 


Caroline Dolbein .... 


1 year. 


March 22. 


March 23. 


Scofula. 


Broobline. 


Maria A. Williams . . . 


27 years. 


March 28. 


" 30. 


Dropsy. 


do. 




65 years. 


April 21. 
at Camhridge. 


April 2.3. 


Eysipelas. 


do. 


Nathan P. Hooper . . . 


10 weeks. 


June 24. 


June 26. 


Dropsy. 


do. 


Wm. i±. Woodward . 


15 months. 


July 14. 


July 15. 


Scofula. 


do. 


Lucy Ann Witbington . 


11 months. 


July 22. 


" 23. 


Consumption. 


do. 


Elisabeth A spin wall . . 


64 years. 


Augt. 11. 


Augt. 12. 


Consumption. 


do. 


Susan J. Wellington . . 


o years. 


oc-t. 81. 




Burn. 


do. 


Lucy Newhall 


23 years. 


Nov. 1. 


Nov. 4. 


Consumption. 


Lynn. 


Epriam Whiting of Xew 














37 years 


Nov. 


Nov. 7. 


Drowned. 


Lexington. 


Caroline F. Robinson . . 


7 years. 


Dec. 31. 


Jan. 3. 


Dropsy. 


Brookline. 



All which is submitted. 
Brookline, Feb. 7, 1843. 

By order of the committee, 



s. Philbrick, 

< Tiairman. 



The following was read and accepted by vote : — 

REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF 
BROOKLINE, MARCH 6, 1843. 

In closing the duties of another year and in presenting their annual 
report, your Committee would remark that according to their ability 
they have endeavored to watch over and promote the interests of the 
public Schools in this town. 

Each school has been visited by one or more of the Com. every mounth 
and at the close of every cpiarter the scholars have been examined with 
regard to their progress in study. Particular attention has been paid to 
the books used, and to the supply of the scholars with these books, so 
that there is a greater uniformity in this respect, than there has been in 
previous years. 

The schools have all been continued without any serious interruption 
during the year and the money approprieted for their advancement, has 
perhaps been as judiciously applied as under our present arrangement it 
could be. 

Information respecting the numbers in our schools and the general 
method in which they are now conducted may be obtained from the fol- 
lowing statement. 

The town is divided into three districts, in all of which, schools are 
continued through the year, with the exception of a vacation of two 
weeks in the spring, and two in the fall. In the North district, which 
contains much the largest number of scholars, during the Avinter session 
there are two districts schools, and in the summer, there is a school in 



78 Brookline Town Records. 

the centre of the town, which is attended by some scholars from all the 
districts. The amount appropriated by the town at their last annual 
meeting for maintainance of these schools was eleven hundred and fifty 
dollars. Besides this there is an annual income of about two hundred 
and seventy dollars from a permanent fund. This appropriations gives 
four dlls. and sixty-nine cents to each scholar (245) in the town between 
the ages of four and sixteen years, which amount, as averaged upon the 
number between these ages is surpassed by only nine towns in the Com- 
monwealth. 

Your Com. would also submit the following statistics in regard to the 
schools seperately : 

1. The School taught by a female in the North district. This school 
is much the largest of any in the town, and is in a very prosperous con- 
dition. It being taught by a female through the year it secures one great 
advantage, which none of the other schools have, that of a permanant 
teacher. 

For a number of years in succession this school has been favored with 
the same instructress. And justice requires us to say that there seems 
to be on her part no abatement of interest or fidelity. In the summer 
term the whole number of scholars in this school was sixty-five and the 
average fifty-eight, and these were divided into nineteen different classes. 
It was found nessary to provide an assistant to share in the labours of 
so large a school. At the commencement of the winter session your com. 
(as the room below was to be occupied, which had been used by the 
assistant, and the scholars were to be all confined to one small room) 
thought it advisable to make some restrictions in regard to the admition 
of scholars to this school, consequently after some deliberation, they 
decided that boys over ten, and girls over twelve years of age should 
attend the school taught by a master in the lower part of the house. 
This reduced the number to about fifty and the aid of the assistant was 
dispenced with for the Winter. 

2. The North male school. This school is continued only five months 
in the year, from the first of November to the first of April, and is 
always kept by a male teacher. Until the present session, for quite a 
number of years, this school has been composed entirely of boys, mostly 
over the age of ten years. The whole No. commonly has been about 
thirty-two, and the average No. about twenty-six. This year, in conse- 
quence of the restrictions in regard to admitance to the other school, 
this is enlarged, and numbers about forty of both sexes. 

3. The South, or, as it is sometimes called, the Middle district. The 
school in this district is taught by a male five, and by a female six months 
in the year. The number attending this school in winter, is about forty- 
five — average about twenty-eight. In summer the number is somewhat 
smaller — the whole number being about thirty-five and the average about 
twenty-one. Where teachers are so frequently changed as they are 
according to the present arrangement in this school, it is difficult to 
secure uninterupted prosperity. 

4. The school in the Southwest district. This, like the one last 
named, is taught by a male teacher during the winter, and by a female 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 79 

during the summer session. This school for several year's past lias been 
increasing in numbers, and with the exception of a very few terms has 
been prosperous. The last year its advancement has been great, and 
very satisfactory to the Com. The whole Xo. in attendance last summer 
was twenty-seven, and the average about seventeen. This session we 
apprehend the average will be somewhat less. 

.">. The Centre School. This school is kept by a male teacher six 
months in the year, from the middle of April to the middle of October, 
and is open to all the children in the town of both sexes over seven years 
of age who may wish to attend. The whole No. that attended the last 
summer was twenty-seven and the average No. sixteen. This number 
was greater as an average than that of several preceeding sessions. For 
a number of years this school owing to a variety of circumstances has 
not been a- profitable to the town as has been desirable. The scholars 
have been very irregular in their attendance many having been kept out of 
school for farming and other purposes during the summer months. Your 
com. would ere this, have recommended the discontinuance of this school 
had there not been in their minds some insuperable objections. The law 
requires that provision be made for all the children in the town between 
the ages of four and sixteen, and as all the other public schools in town, 
are taught by females in summer, it seems necessary that this school 
should be continued, otherwise some twenty or thirty boys, must be kept 
out of school during the greater portion of the year, or go into our 
female schools at an age which would be likely to embarrass the schools, 
and cause the female teachers an undue amount of trouble. 

"We trust that some arrangements will be made to assume and retain 
under certain restrictions the character of a higher public school than any 
we now have. 

Having given these statistic- your com. would take the liberty to make 
one or two suggestions in regards to improvements which it may be 
advisable for the town to consider. 

The first pertains to the houses in which our schools are kept. All of 
them are at present in a tolerable state of repair, and their arrangements 
are by no means, Avorse than those of many in the commonwealth. Yet 
their internal construction, the arrangements of the seats — the conven- 
iences for recitation, might with very little expence be greatly improved. 
Improvements might also be made, arround the houses, which would 
render them much more neat in their appearance and better adapted to 
cultivate the taste, and a cheerful disposition on the part of the scholars. 
That was a just remark once made to us in a Lyceum lecture "that next 
to the church the school house should be most neat and elegant building 
in the town." Attention to this subject in the north district seems to be 
particularly desirable. 

There is not a shade tree of any kind near the house, the street is 
exceedingly narrow, the yard very small, and not unfrequently about one 
hundred children, are at the same time obliged to be confined to these 
scanty accomodations. 

Your com. would also suggest the propriety of making some arrange- 
ments by which permament teachers may be secured in all our schools. 



80 Broohline Town Records. 

Where there is a change every session, from male to female teachers the 
schools cannot bnt be irregular, and retarded in their progress. It takes 
so many good qualities to make a good teacher, that it is impossible to 
decide respecting the success of any one until fairly tried. Your com. 
can decide respecting the litterary qualifications of all who may be 
employed, but this is by no means all that is to be considered, and where 
the change is so frequently made, it is very much a matter of chance, 
whether the school upon the whole makes any progress during the year. 
Not unfrequently your com. have found the scholars at the close of one 
session in a worse condition than at the close of the preceeding one. 
Discipline had been neglected and habits acquired which a faithful teacher 
could not in a long time restore and reform. And thus the schools 
rise and fall like the tide and sometimes we have two or three ebb tides 
in succession, without any flood. 

In view of these evils, and others that might be named, your com. 
would suggest whether the interests of our public schools would not be 
promoted were there to be one permanent master's school in the Centre 
of the town, and female teachers in all the districts thoroughout the 
year. Your com. can see objections to such an arrangement and an 
inconvenience to some in the remote parts of the town, but yet there are 
advantages which would be very beneficial to the town as a whole. 
Faithful and well-qualified teachers might then be permanently employed, 
and our schools might be rising continually without so many interrup- 
tions and drawbacks. This arrangement might be carried into effect 
with less expense to the town than that at which our schools are now 
maintained. The plan is at least feasible, and we submit it to the town, 
whether or not its adoption is advisable. 

Your com. would also suggest whether there is that importance 
attached to a teacher's office which there should be. For the time being 
the teachers sustains a relation to our children which is most interest- 
ing and important. It is in its character parental. He makes impres- 
sions which continue during all the stages of future life. Who of us 
cannot find traces in our habits and characters which were drawn by 
teachers in the earlier clays of our childhood. Now, since impressions 
are to be made upon such susceptible material, and impressions which 
can never be effaced, it is not a matter of small importance what those 
impressions are. He who deals with the finest sensibilities of our chil- 
dren, " and moves hands over chords which reach in their A'ibi'ations " 
to the end of life, yea to other worlds and unending ages, should be a 
man of great carefulness and delicacy. "He should tread lightly and 
touch tenderly where feelings and interests so sacred and enduring are 
concerned." 

The office of teacher should be regarded as one of great responsibility, 
and efforts should be made to secure and retain the best teachers we 
possibly can. 

All of which is most respectfully submitted. 



Bkooklixe. March 6, 1843. 



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Meeting, March 6, 1843. 81 

TRUSTEES OE SCHOOL FUND. 
The trustees of the Brookline school fund who were appointed by the 
town to invest and take the general charge of said fund and report the 
condition of the same annually, would now beg leave to present the fol- 
lowing report : 

The total amount of the school fund is 4531.01, which has been invested 
by loaning to sundry persons secured agreeable to instructions from the 
town in all cases by mortgages on real estate. 

Loaned to Theophilus Dame, secured by mortgage on real 

estate in Brighton $435 84 

To Charles Hastings, secured by mortgage on real estate in 

Brighton 

To Edward Hall, secured by real estate in this town . 

To -lames & Luther Crane, secured by mortgage on real 

estate in Newton ........ 

To Samuel Brown, secured by mortgage on real estate in 

Boston .......... 

To Reuben Hunting, secured by mortgage on real estate in 

Brighton 

Amounting in all as above ...... $453] <»l 

As security against loss by lire, there has been in all cases excepting 
one. policy of insurance effected on the buildings mortgaged, and made 
payable in case of loss to the mortgagees. 

Your trustees feel the most perfeel confidence in the security winch is 
held for the fund. Also express their satisfaction with the promptitude 
with which the interest has been paid into the treasury generally. 

The trustees have examined the books of the treasurer and find the 
amount secured during the past year as income from the school fund to 
be $252.57, which was found by computing the interest on the notes which 
it was paid, to be correct. 

The treasurer, by order of the selectmen, has paid the amount of 
income into the town treasury, which balances the treasurer's books to 
tins date. 

All of which is most respectfully submitted by 

Charles Stearns, Jr.,1 m . , .. 
Daniel Sanderson, L Trustees of the 
James Robinson, j Brookline School fund. 

Brookline, Feb. 28, 1843. 
Head and accepted by vote. 



Whole number of votes given in for County Treasurer 
were one hundred and nine. 

John Bullard had eighty-three votes. 
Elbridge G. Robinson had twenty-four votes. 
Artemas Newell had one vote. 
A. H. Clapp had one vote. 
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82 BrooJdine Town Records. 

Voted, To choose Selectmen seperate from Assessors. 
The following were unanimously chosen as Selectmen : 

Daniel Sanderson. 4."> Votes. ) 

David Coolidge, 46 - Selectmen. 

Thomas Griggs, 4G " j 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 

The following were unanimously chosen : 

Charles Stearns. Jr. 28 Votes, 1 

A. W. Goddard, 28 " Lvsse>sors. 

Timothy Corey, 28 " J 

Artemas Newell was chosen Treasurer & Collector, 56 out 
of 101. 

Voted, To choose three General School Committee. 
The following were unanimously chosen by Ballot : 

Rev'd John Pierce, D.D. ") , c , , , 

Rev'd fm. II. Shailer, I General School 
Samuel Philbrick, Esq. j Committee. 

Voted, To choose the Prudential School Committee by 
Ballot. 

David Coolidge, 18, North District ) Prudential 

T. W. Wellington, 8, South •• V School 

Chancy Woodward. .">. Southwest " j Committee. 

Elisha Stone ) 

Stephen S. C. Jones, I Surveyors of V ood and Lumber. 

Martin Morse, 1st North District. 

Thomas Griggs, 2d North 
Samuel Philbrick, 3d North 
George S. Cushing, 1st Middle 

Voted, That the 1st & 2d Middle districts be united 
in one. 

David Sanderson, 3d Middle district. 

George Craft, 1st South " 

George "W. Goldsmith, 2d South 

John W. Warren, 3d South 

Hugh M. Sanborn, Eastern Section of Turnpike. 

T. W. Wellington. Western do. do. 

Marshal Stearns, ") 

SethT. Thayer, iFhwards. 

James Bartlett, J 

Marshall Stearns, ) 

Seth T. Thayer, f Fire Wards. 

-lames Bartlett, j 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 83 

Voted, To choose eight Field drivers. 

Samuel A. Walker. "] 

Clark L. Haynes, 

Win. W. Clement. 

Franklin Stone. ! w . 1/q ,,.- ,. 

r ,„ _. . , - I- lekl dm ers. 

I nomas Quimby, 

George Cushing, 

John Kenrick. 
Elijah Corey. .Inn., j 

?w ( < ltlr ^ i ) Fence viewers. 
A. V\ . Goddard, J 

George Cashing, Pound Keeper. 

Charles Wild. ) 

Elijah Corey. [-Committee on Town Accounts. 

Ebenr. Heath, j 

Voted, To choose Constable by nomination. 

Elisha Stone was chosen Constable. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, That the General School Committee be requested 
to mature some plan to cany out the suggestions made in 
their report relating to the alteration in our school system 
and School Houses, and report at the adjournment of this 
meeting. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to furnish the 
Rev'd Dr. Pierce with a gratuitous deed of such a lot of land 
adjoining his Tomb in the public burial ground as shall be 
mutually agreed upon by him and the Cemetery Committee, 
agreeably to a recommendation in the Report of said com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorised to furnish the 
Congregational and Baptist Societies in the Town each, with a 
gratuitous deed of a burial Lot among those lots now laid 
out in the public burial ground ; for the use of the families 
of the present Pastors of said Societies, and their successors, 
or their friends, provided the said Societies will enclose said 
lots and ornament them with trees, turf, or shrubbery in a 
manner satisfactory to the Cemetery Committee. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to mature 
some plan relative to the 7th article in the warrant and 
report at the adjournment of this meeting. 

Voted, That Samuel Philbrick, Charles Stearns, Jr., and 
David Coolidge be a committee to make inquiry & ascertain 



84 BrooMine Town Records. 

whether any land can be purchased adjoining the district 
School Lot in School Street, for the use of said school & for 
the Town ; and also on what terms such purchase can be 
made — and make report to the adjournment of this meeting. 

Whereas, The Legislature of Massachusetts has granted 
from the general School fund an appropriation of fifteen 
dollars to each school district within this commonwealth, 
conditioned that each district shall first raise an additional 
sum of fifteen dols. for the purpose of procuring School 
Libraries for such districts, 

And Whereas, The School districts in this Town are small 
in teritory & numbers — It is therefore deemed most advisable 
to unite them together for a general School Library. 
Whereupon it is 

Voted, That the sum of fifteen dollars each be now appro- 
priated to our three school districts, to be united with the 
grant made by the Legislature, for the purpose of procuring 
a School Library for the benefit of the children of each 
School district — and that a committee of one person from 
each district be now chosen, who shall be authorized to 
receive the above appropriation from our Treasurer and also 
the grant from the commonwealth, and therewith to procure 
such a Library, as they by and with the advice of the gen- 
eral School Committee shall deem most suitable for the 
advancement of the children in Literary and Scientific 
knowledge. Also, to appoint a Librarian to take charge of 
the same, and to institute such regulations as they shall 
deem necessary for the convenience and benefit of all the 
children ; and for the preservation and equal circulation of 
the books — And that Samuel Philbrick, Daniel Sanderson A 
Samuel Hills shall constitute said Committee. 

Voted, That Messrs. Timothy Corey, Marshal Stearns, 
and Harrison Fay be a committee to act on the 11th Article 
in the warrant, and that the alleged grievances be presented 
to the Committee in writing. 

Voted, That fifty dollars per year be paid to the Chairman 
and Secretary of the General School Committee for their 
services for the two years last past. 



Meeting, March 6, 1843. 85 

Voted, To raise four thousand five hundred dollars the 
present year, and that it be appropriated according to the 
recommendation of the auditing committee. 

Voted, That the sum of one thousand dollars appro- 
priated for repairs of highways the ensuing year, shall be 
assessed upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants, resi- 
dents & non-residents, as other Town charges are assessed; 
and shall be collected as other Town Taxes are collected ; 
and divided between the several highway districts as here- 
tofore : — and no surveyor shall receive any money from the 
Treasurer until he shall have expended the same according 
to the requisitions of law, and had his account approved by 
the Selectmen. 

Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to first Monday of 
April next at 2 o'clock p. M. 

Otis Withingtox, Toivn Clerk. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of BrooTdiiw, 

Greeting : 

You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, within three days of the date hereof, to notify 
and summon each of the persons mentioned below, to appear 
before me, within seven days from the time }'ou shall give 
such notice, to take the oath prescribed by Law to the office 
to which they are respectively chosen, Daniel Sanderson 
and Thomas Griggs as selectmen and surveyors of High- 
ways, David Coolidge as selectman, Charles Stearns, Jr., 
and Timothy Core\- as assessors, Abijah W. Goddard as 
assessor and Fence Viewer, Artemas Newell as Treasurer 
and Collector, Elisha Stone as constable and surveyor of 
Wood and Lumber, Stephen S. C. Jones as survej^or of 
Wood and Lumber ; Martin Morse, Samuel Phil brick, George 
Craft, George W. Goldsmith, John W. Warren, Hugh M. 
Sanborn and T. W. Wellington as surveyors of Highways, 
George Cushing as surveyor of Highwa3 r s, Field driver & 
Pound Keeper, Clark L. Haynes, Wm. W. Clement, Frank- 
lin Stone, Thomas Quimby, John Kenrick and Elijah Corey, 
Jr., as Field drivers, Caleb Clark as Fence Viewer. 



86 Brookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon within ten days from the date hereof. 
Given under my hand and seal this Seventh day of March, 
1843. 

Otis Withington, Toivn Clerk, [l.s.] 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 13. 1843. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within mentioned 
persons as within directed. 

Er.isii.v Stone, Constable of Brookliiu . 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 6, 1843. 

Then personally appeared and took the Oath prescribed by 
law to the offices to which they had been respectively chosen, 
the following persons on the day of the date set against their 
names : 

March (5. Samuel A. Walker as Field driver. 
8. David Coolidge as Selectman. 
" " Thomas Griggs as Selectman and Highway surveyor. 
" 10. George W. Goldsmith as surveyor of Highways. 
•' 11. George Craft as Surveyor of Highways. 

11. Hugh M. Sanborn as surveyor of Highways. 
" " George S. dishing as surveyor of Highways, Field driver 

£ Pound Keeper. 
" " Daniel Sanderson as surveyor of Highways and Selectman. 
" 18. Stephen S. C. Jones as surveyor of wood & lumber 

T. W. Wellington as surveyor of Highways. 
" " Elisha Si one as Constable and surveyor of Wood «.<: 

Lumber. 
" 14. Clark L. llaynes as Field driver. 

John Kenrick as Field driver. 
" •■ John W. Warren as surveyor of Highways. 
17. Artemas Newell as Treasurer and Collector. 
21. Elijah Corey. Junr.. as Field driver. 
" 24. Wm. W. Clement as Field driver. 
" " Samuel Philbrick as Surveyor of Highways. 
28. Martin Morse as Surveyor of Highways. 
April :!. Charles Stearns. Jr.. as Assessor. 

" ■• Abijah W. Goddard as Assessor and Fence Viewer. 
Marshal Stearns as Fence Viewer. 
May 10. Timothy ( 'orey as Assessor. 

Otis Withtngton, Tuvu Clerk. 



Meeting, April 3, 1843. 87 

April 3d, 1843. At an adjourned meeting of the Inhab- 
itants of Brookline from March 6th, at 2 o'clock, — 

Abijah W. Goddard, Moderator. 

The Town Clerk beino- absent, David R. Griggs was 
chosen and duly qualified to act as Town clerk, Pro-tem. 

Marshal Stearns was elected Fence Viewer. 

The following report was presented and accepted : 

The Committee appointed at the last meeting to take into consideration 
the expediency of procuring a place for the purpose of a more systematic 
and economical maintenance of the Poor, would Report, — 

That the committee find on examining that there arc now ten persons 
on the Town's expence, nine of them which they entirely support, anil 
one in part, at an expence of not less than thirteen dollars per week, or 
an annual expence of six hundred and seventy-five dollars or more. 

Your committee are of opinion that if some suitable place could be 
procured and all of -aid person- supported in one establishment, it might 
be done at less expence to the Town: inasmuch as smut' of them, if they 
had suitable employment provided, might do considerable towards earn- 
ing their living, bu1 a- there is one of our number for which Ave pay 
three dollars & fifty cents per week. Mould not probably be removed to 
such an establishment were it now in operation, and three others we 
hope will soon be able to take care of themselves, 

Under these circumstances Ave do not consider the call for such an 
establishment so immediately pressing. 

Nevertheless, we believe that according to the course of things, every 
year the number of our dependents will be multiplied, and ere long such an 
establishment must be had. we believe also that such a place as would be 
suitable in Brookline i- every year increasing in value, and with more 
difficulty WOUld be obtained. 

With these considerations before us. we should consider it a mark of 
wisdom in the Town to appoint a committee whose duty it shall be to 
have this subject before them and make enquiry relative to the same, so 
that when any suitable place shall be offered for sale for a fair compen- 
sation this committee may receive the proposals and lay the same before 
the Town for their acceptance or otherwise. 

Your committee would therefore recommend to the Town to appoint a 
committee of three, whose duty shall be as above named, and report 
when they shall be prepared, whether that time shall be soon or more 
remote. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Daniel Sanderson, Chairman. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a Committee [to cany] 
the fore^oino; into effect. 



88 BrooMine Town Records. 

The Chairman of committee on grievances stated that they 
were not prepared to make their report, and asked further 
time, which was granted. 

After considerable discussion by Samuel A. Walker and 
others, — 

Voted, To add four to the above named committee. 

Samuel A. Walker, Dea. Thomas Kendal, Moses Jones, 
and James Bartlett were chosen. 

Voted, That the financial year shall end with the first of 
February each year. 

On motion of Samuel A. Walker, — 

Voted, That the committee on the grievances of certain 
individuals, examine the accounts of the Cemetery Commit- 
tee and report, — also in relation to the inovations made by 
individuals composing the cemetery committee in removing 
gravel from the cemetery for individual purposes. Also in 
removing stones from the Tombs, and using the same for 
building purposes in which they were interested. Also the 
taking of Tomb stones for the purpose of covering up drains, 
and in relation to the old fence that has been removed, and 
if any and what compensation has been paid for the same, 
and to whom, in regard to the grave stones of the Inhabit- 
ants of Brookline being used to fill up the highwa} T s. 

On motion of Samuel A. Walker, — 

Voted, That a committee of five be chosen for the ensuing 
year, and that said committee be hereafter chosen at the 
annual March meeting and for the term of one year only. 

Voted, To choose the committee by ballot. 

Doe. Charles Wild, Thomas Griggs and Isaac Cook had 
each fifty four votes, and were unanimously elected. Moses 
Jones and James Bartlett each had fifty-three votes, and 
were also elected. Samuel Philbrick and Doc. Samuel 
Shurtleff had each one vote. 

At the request of Samuel Philbrick, — 

Voted, That Dea. Thomas Kendall, Samual A. Walker 
and Marshall Stearns be an investigating committee on the 
accounts and doings of the Cemetery Committee. 

The Committee appointed at our Annual Meeting in March 



Meeting, April 3, 1843. 89 

to ascertain whether any land could be obtained adjoining 
the School House lot in School Street, having reported verb- 
ally that the owners of the land are not ready to sell any 
at this time, but they probably will be prepared to accom- 
modate the Town with whatever quantity they may want 
within a tew weeks ; therefore, — 

Voted, That said committee be continued, and that they 
be authorized to purchase, on behalf and for the use of the 
Town, any quantit}' of land adjoining said school lot, which 
in their judgment it will be for the interest of the Town to 
own, not exceeding in expenditure of Four hundred dollars, 
and the sum of Four hundred dollars is hereby appropriated 
for that purpose. 

REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 

Believing thai our public schools cannot be greatly improved without 
more permanency on the pari <>f the teachers, therefore, — 

Resolved, Thai hereafter female teachers be employed in each of the 
three scl Is districted in this Town, during the whole year. 

Resolved, Thai we establish a school in the centre of the Town which 
shall be taught during the year by a male teacher, qualified to give 
instruction in such branches as the General School Committee may deem 
it advisable to have taught in said school. 

Should such a school go into operation it will of necessity take some 
time and experience to mature fully a plan whose adoption would render 
the school of the greatest possible benefit to the town. There will be 
many difficulties to meet and overcome before it can be made to meet the 
expectations of some of its advocates, yet these difficulties will not be 
less at any future time, and the earlier we commence such a school the 
sooner will the Inhabitants of this Town enjoy the benefits of its maturer 
influence. 

There are but few points connected with this subject which have been 
fully deliberated by your committee, but these few being someAvhat 
important, they would wish to present them at this meeting to ascertain 
whether the opinion of the committee will meet the approbation of the 
Town. 

1st. Your committee are of the opinion that none should be admitted 
into the proposed school under ten years of age, and that this is the only 
limitation that it is advisable to make at present. 

2d. That the school shall be so arranged and conducted that each 
.scholar shall have about his proportion of the time and attention of the 
teacher and no more, without regard to his attainments. 

3d. That the scholars while members of the school shall be required 
to attend punctually and constantly. Your Committee apprehend that 



HO BrooTdlne Town Records. 

without some efficient measures in respect to this last named subject the 
school will be embarressed and greatly impeded in its progress; one of 

the greatest hindrances to success we anticipate from a want of attention 
to this very thing, if those who were irregular injured only themselves 
there "would be less cause for complaint, but they do a serious injury to 
the whole school. 

The class cannot proceed unless they understand the principles con- 
tained in their studies they have none over. If when these principles 
are explained, some are habitually absent, when they come in the Teacher 
must detain the whole class until he can explain again what most of tin- 
class fully understand. As a matter of justice, therefore, we ought to 
demand that those who send to our public schools, send punctually and 
constantly. In view of this evil your Committee would recommend the 
adoption of the following Resolutions: 

1st. Every scholar while a member of the school, who is absent or 
tardy from whatever cause, shall be restored to former standing only on 
condition of producing a written excuse for such absence or tardiness 
from a parent or guardian, and also on preparing within a reasonable 
time for reciting to the satisfaction of the teacher all the lesson- recited 
by the class during such absence. 

2d. Scholar- dismissed before the regular hour for closing the school. 
by request of their Parents or guardians, shall be considered absent for 
the half day on which such dismission is requested and noted accordingly. 

3d. Any scholar absent from school more than one half day during 
any month shall not be admitted into the school again that session except 
by a written order from the School Committee, unless such absence be 
occasioned by the sickness of the scholar or by sickness or death in the 
family. 

Voted, To adopt the two first resolutions. 
Voted, To adopt the whole of the Report. 
Voted, To Adjourn without day. 

David R. Griggs, Town Cleric, Pro-iem. 



The following list of persons liable to be enrolled in the 

Militia were returned by the Assessors, May 23, 1843. 

Whole No. 137. 

Charles Coolidge George < His 

Leonard Lord Calvin Smith 

Charles Stewart Benjamin Owen 

Lucius De Coster Luther Seaverns 

Charles York Amos Whittemore 

Isaac Burrows Samuel Briant 

Francis Downes Samuel Ladd 

Alonso Holbrook Robert Boody 

Mark Nickerson William Andrews 



Militia List, 1843. 



91 



Uriah Blasdale 
John T. Smith 
George Stoddard 
George B. Rich 
Thomas Trull 
Isaac L. Adams 
Edward Hall, Jr. 
John Kenrick 
Ebenezer Loonier 
Moses Grace 
Thomas Blanchard 
William Griggs 
Oliver G. Pray 
Nathaniel Frye 

Elkanah Foss 
Timothy Dame 
Joel Wait 

Yitam 
John Dudley 

George W. Colbeth 

Samuel Hills 

William Wallace 

Simon W. Clifford 

Hiram R. Bean 

i reorge I Iraft 

Charles Craft 

Thomas N. Woodward 

Chancey Woodward 

Thaxter Prouty 

Isaac Townsend 

Knock Flanders 

Caleb Craft. Jun. 

Edwin Richards 

William Hastings 

James Willey 

John Cobey 

George W. Goldsmith 

Samuel Townsend. Jun. 

Thomas Townsend 

William W. Cloud 

George Cashing 

Josiah Quimby 

Eli D. Sanderson 

Charles Heath 

Isaac Hooper 

Morris Boynton 

John Boynton 

George A. Brewer 

James W. Felkar 



George Bartlett 
George Gibbs 
Thomas Brittou 

John W. Warren 
Simon Warren 
Charles Warren 
Leonard White 
James S. Amory 
Charles T. Thurlow 
William Springer 
William W. Clement 
Lucius Lessley 
John Rogers 
Roswell Fairbanks 
William K. Lawrence 
( reorge 

Dexter Johnson 
Daniel S. Kendall 
AugUStUS T. Newell 

Charles Robinson 
Clark L. Haynes 
David Whitney 
Henry Whitney 
Peleg Gulliver 
Fredrick Fairbanks 
Edmund Pray 
George W. Stearns 
Joel Pettingale 
Benjamine Woodsom 
Stephen Hide 
William A. llayden 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Charles Reed 
David Marble 
Stephen Heath 
Willard A. Humphrey 
t reorge W. Merrill 
Moody Page 
William P. Brewer 
William Bird 
Daniel Gilpatrick 
George Taplin 
Samuel Clark 
Francis McKenny 
Charles Smith 
James M. Randall 
Charles Pulsifer 
Joseph Richards 
Henry Young 



92 BrooTdine Town Records. 

Henry W. Carr William Eowe 

Lakeman Samuel Sutton, Jun. 

Frye William Hutchinson 

Sawer Holden Thomas C. Quimby 

Ebenezer C. Haskell Alfred Cioutman 

James L. Oliver Daniel Kimball 

Asael Lovejoy Zemri Worcester 

Hugh 11. Kendall Francis Haws 

Francis Flanders Joseph L. White 

David K. Smith William White 137 



John A. Bird 



Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR AUGUST [MEETING]. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
You are required in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to notify and warn the male Inhabitants of 
said town, being twenty-one years of age, and who having 
resided in the Commonwealth one year, and within the 
Town six months next preceeding and having paid any State 
or County tax which has been assessed upon them within 
the Commonwealth within two years last past, and also every 
citisen who shall by law be exempt from taxation and in all 
other respects qualified as above mentioned : To meet at the 
Town Hall in said town on Thursday, the Seventeenth 
instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon, to act on the fol- 
lowing articles, viz. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 
I'd. To hear and act upon the report of the School Committee relative 
to the necessity of providing better accommodations of the High School. 
3d. To hear the report of any other committee. 

Given under our hands & seals this 8th day of August, 
1843. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ^ 

David Coolidge, [l.s.] > Selectmen. 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) 



Meeting, August 17, 1843. 93 

Norfolk, ss. Bkooklixe, August 14th, 1843. 

By virtue of the within -warrant I have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time & place for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elisha Stone. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant a meeting was held at 
the Town Hall, Augt. 17, 1843. 

Mr. James Robinson was chosen Moderator. 

The following Report of the School Committee was read 
by the Secretary, Rev. William H. Shailer : 

SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT. 

The School Committee would most respectfully Submit the following 
considerations upon the subject of Schools to the citizens of this town. 
In accordance with the suggestion of the committee on Public Schools, 
which was read in town meeting in the month of March last, and which 
was laid over for action thereon until the adjourned meeting in April, a 
school was established in the center of this town, and opened to scholars 
from every part of the town who were more than ten years of age. At 
the opening of that school, in May. it was found that the number in 
attendance was much larger than we had anticipated. Children from 
several families attended who never before had been connected with OUT 
public schools, and these with others increased the school to such an 
extent, that our accommodations were found to be too limited. The first 
week there were several who were provided with no seat but a settee. 
without any desk or shelf on which to place their books, or rest their 
slates, maps, &c. A meeting of the Committee was immediately called, 
and a consultation was had in respect to the best method of remedying 
the existing evil. It was found, on examination of room, that a few 
more desks might be placed there, not however without infringing upon 
a space which appeared To lie needed for recitations. But as this seemed 
to be the only alternative, it was thought advisable by the Com. to have 
this space occupied with new seats and desks corresponding with those 
previously in the room. 

Having agreed upon this, it was. as soon as practicable, carried into 
effect, and accommodations were thus made for ten more scholars. But 
this did not fully meet the wants and necessities of the school, and 
through the whole term some have been obliged to take up with accom- 
modations which, for his own children, every parent would wish to have 
improved. Under these disadvantages, however, the school has been 
prosperous to a degree which has surpassed the expectations of its 
warmest advocates. So far as your com. have been able to discover from 
a constant oversight, from their monthly visits, and from a quarterly 
examination, they are of the opinion that the school has been of great 
utility to the town. We believe that the teachers and scholars have 
exerted themselves in their endeavors to secure the end for which the 



94 Brookline Town Records. 

school was established. Great credit is also due to the parents and 
guardians of the scholars for the disposition which they have manifested 
to carry out the resolutions you adopted in respect to punctuality in 
attendance. But as limited as have been the accommodations for the school 
the past term, your com. are of opinion that they would be still more so 
for ensuing term. From information on which we can rely, and from 
observations made in regard to the number attending school at the differ- 
ent seasons of the year, we have reason to believe that it would be impos- 
sible to accommodate those who would attend unless some other provis- 
ion be made. We dare not take the responsibility of attempting to 
crowd more into that small room. We have power as a committee to 
reduce the number, by placing the age suitable for admission at twelve 
or fourteen instead of ten. or of restricting the scholars by requiring 
certain literary qualifications, but this power we are unwilling to exercise 
without first laying the subject fairly before the town. It is therefore, 
for this purpose, so far as we are concerned, that this meeting was 
called. We wish not to dictate you. but to have you direct us. Shall we 
adopt some other terms of admission into tins school, shutting out some 
of its finest scholars, who are under the age upon which we might fix. or 
shall we say those who enter must have made certain attainments in 
study, and thus shut out many of the largest scholars, whose opportuni- 
ties hitherto have been limited and who greatly need the benefit of this 
school, or will the town make some more ample accommodations, for 
the benefit of all who may wish to attend ? We submit it to the town 
for decision, and as your servants we will endeavor to carry out the 
instructions which you may give us. Should the town think it advisable 
to enlarge the accommodation, which it is the opinion of the com. will 
be most decidedly for their advantage, and adopt the course which to us 
appears the least objectionable of the three proposed, we would respect- 
fully suggest whether it would not be advisable to have this room con- 
verted into a neatly finished room for the school. We think this may be 
done, at no very great expence to the town, in accordance with a plan 
which we herewith submit, and to which we invite the attention of the 
town. The law makes provision for an assistant in every school whose 
average is as great as that of this school for the last term. And unless 
we reduce the number of scholars we shall be under the necessity of pro- 
curing an assistant immediately for this school. And should the town 
vote to have tins room devoted to the purposes of the school, it is the 
opinion of the com. that it would be advisable to have two departments 
to the school, both under the general supervision of the same teacher, 
but one of a higher order in regard to qualifications than the other. 
This would afford an opportunity to classify the school to much greater 
advantage than we can at present. With such an arrangement, whenever 
scholars were found to be prepared in the one department to enter the 
other, they could be removed, and this would act as a kind of stimulus 
to those whose advantages had been limited, or who had not applied 
themselves as diligently as they ought. With these suggestions we 
submit this Avhole subject to the serious consideration of the town. If 
the town shall see fit to follow out the suggestions, and with that willing- 



Meeting, August 17, 184o. 95 

uess to contribate Liberally for the education of their children, which has 
been manifested <>n former occasions, they will find an ample reward in 
the advantages and respectability that "will accrue to the generation 
rising up around them. If they shall see tit to adopt a different policy. 
and deem it inexpedient to carry out the plan proposed by their com., or 
make any better provisions for the accommodations of the school, they 
will reap the reward of this also in the deformed bodies, the contracted 
intellects, the limited attainments of their children. With a conscious- 
ness they have endeavored to discharge their duty faithfully as a com. 
we leave this subjeet for the action of the town. Whatever disposition 
they may make of it. we shall submit to. and try to carry out their 
wishes according to the best of our ability. 

Wm. 11. Siiaiikk. Sec. of S. <",,i. 

Report accepted. The following Resolution was then 

•adopted : 

Resolved, That the Town Hall be hereafter appropriated 
as a school room for the further accommodations of the hi°-h 
school, and that the general School Committee be a commit- 
tee with full powers to cause the necessary alterations and 
finishing in said hall to be immediately made for the accom- 
odation of said school, according to a plan this day presented 
by the school committee, and that the sum of Three hundred 
be appropriated for that purpose ; and that the Town 
Treasurer be hereby authorized to borrow the money on 
behalf of the Town, provided there should be no surplus 
funds in the Treasury. 



The following report was read : 

The Committee appointed in .March last to purchase land for the use 
of the Town, adjoining the School house lot in School street, have 
attended thereto, and have purchased of Thomas A. Davis a parcel of 
land on School Street extending westward from the school house lot 
one hundred & fifty feet, to Anna Dana's land, and back from said street 
about one hundred feet, comprising 18,107 square feet, at two cents per 
foot, amounting to three hundred and sixty-two dollars & 14 cts., which 
has been paid by the Town Treasurer. 

In procuring this land it became necessary to accede to certain condi- 
tions, which are described in the deed of purchase, for which the privi- 
lege has been obtained of removing from the adjoining land of said Davis 
all the gravel which might be obtained by sloping the bank back on said 
Davis' land from the line of purchase to an angle of 45 degrees with the 



96 Brookline Town Records. 

horizon, leaving the lot purchased by our committee on a level with 
School Street throughout its whole surface, which will furnish a large 
supply of gravel for repairing the roads, when wanted. 

In order to insure a fulfilment of the conditions of the purchase, your 
committee take the liberty of annexing the following resolution for the 
adoption of the Town : 

Besolved, That the lot of land purchased of Thomas A. Davis, on 
School Street, be placed under the immediate and special care and direc- 
tion of the board of Selectmen, and that they be authorised and requested 
to regulate the removal of the gravel, stones, or earth from said lot, from 
year to year, so as to preserve regularity & order during the progress of 
the work ; and to fulfil the conditions of the deed in good faith. 

BnooKUXK. August 10, 184-3. 

Samttel Phii.kkick. 
David Coolidge. 

Voted, That the report be accepted, and the Resolution 
adopted. 

Deacon Thomas Kendall requested to be excused from 
further service on the com. on grievances in connection with 
the Cemetery. 

Voted, To excuse Dea. Kendall. 

Voted, That George Griggs, Esq., be on the com. in 
place of Dea. Kendall, resigned. ■ 

Adjourned Sine die. 

Attest : Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR NOVEMBER [MEETING]. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of Brookline, in 
said County, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn all the inhabitants 
of said town qualified to Vote in Elections to assemble at 
Lyceum Hall within said town, on Monday, the Thirteenth 
day of November inst., at One O'clock in the afternoon, 
being the second Monday in said month, at which time and 



Meeting, November 13, 1843. 97 

place the Polls for the choice of the several officers to be 
voted for, will be opened. 

First. To determine whether the town will choose a Representative 

to send to the next General Court. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for Governor and 
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth, and three Senators for 
the district of Norfolk for the ensuing year, and to give in their votes 
for a Representative, if the town shall decide to -end one, i to represent 
the town in the next General Court to be held at Boston on the first 
Wednesday of .January next. The above officers to be all voted for on 
one ticket. 

You are also required to notify and warn the qualified 
voters of said town to assemble at said Lyceum Hall on said 
Monday, the thirteenth inst., at half-past three o'clock in the 
afternoon, for the following purposes, Viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see if the town will take into consideration the subject of 
building a town house and an Engine house, and take any measures to 
carry the same into effect. 

• Third. To determine whether the town will make an appropriation to 
defray the expences of repairing the damage done by tire to the engine. 

Fourth. To hear the reports of any committees appointed by the 
town, which may be ready to report. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings, at the time and place of the above mentioned 
town meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals this first day of November, 

A. D. Eighteen hundred and forty -three. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ■) 

-r. -, / Selectmen 

David Coolidge, Tl.s.] > * r> 77- 

L J \of Brookhne. 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] j 

Norfolk, ss. Bkookxike, Nov. 10, 1843. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified & warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes Avithin 
mentioned. 

Ei.isha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 

At a meeting of the Inhabitants legally warned and assem- 
bled at Lyceum Hall for the choice of Governor, Lieutenant- 
Governor, Senators & Representative to the General Court, 
&c.,— 



98 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 

Court. 

Tor Governor : 

George N. Briggs of Pittsfleld had one hundred and thirty-four Votes. 

(134.) 
Marcus Morton had sixty-two Votes. (62.) 

For Lieutenant-Governor : 

John Iteed of Yarmouth had one hundred and thirty-four Votes 
Henry H. Childs had sixty-two Votes. 

f Luther Metcalf of Medway had 134 Votes. 

Benj'n F. Copeland of Roxbury had 133 " 

I Joseph Richards of Braintree •' 133 " 

For j Artemas Brown of Medway " 02 '■ 

Senators:] Bradford L. "Wales of Randolph •' 02 

Darius Brewer of Dorchester " 02 

Theodore Lyman of Brookline " 1 

Appleton Howe of Weymouth " 1 ' ; 

f Thomas Kendall had 120 Votes. 

For j James Bartlett " 01 " 

Representative •] Daniel Sanderson " 1 " 

to General Court : j Martin Morse l - 1 " 

I John Howe " 1 " 

Voted, To close the Polls at 20 minutes pass 3 o'clock. 
Meeting disolved. 



A meeting of the Inhabitants, warned at half-past three 
o'clock, organized by choosing — 

Capt. Daniel Sanderson, Moderator. 

Voted, That, in consequence of our recent appropriation of 
the Town Hall to the use of the public high school, & of the 
destruction of the Engine house by fire the past summer, it 
is both expedient and necessary that preparitoiy measures 
be taken at this time for providing a new Town Hall, & 
store house for the Fire Engine ; and that a committee of 
five citizens, selected from different parts of the Town, be 
now appointed to look out and decide upon some suitable 
location, ascertain the price for which it can be obtained, 
procure from an architect a plan of a building suitable for 
the accommodation of the Town, get an estimate of the whole 
expense, and make a report of their proceedings to our 
annual meeting in March next, and that Messrs. Samuel 



Meeting, November 13, 1843. 



99 



Philbrick, Abijah Warren Goddard, Charles Stearns, Jun., 
Daniel Sanderson & Timothy Corey constitute said com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That the selectmen be authorized, if necessary, to 
borrow a sum not exceeding 550 dollars to pay the expense 
of repairing the Fire Engine. 

The following report of the School committee was read, 
and accepted by vote : 

SCHOOL CnM. REPORT. 

The School Committee, who were authorized by a vote of the inhabit- 
ants of Brookline. at their meeting in August last, to prepare the Town 
Hall for the use of the public high school, gave to the subject their 
earliest attention, and caused the necessary alterations and finishings to 
be completed during the summer vacation of sd. school, in season for the 
commencement of the present term in the early part of September. The 
net amount expended is $281.67, which sum has been ree'd from the Town 
Treasurer, and disbursed in payment of the following bills. Viz. : 

$43 59 

23 80 

68 37 

1 50 



C. W. Brown & Co's flooring boards 
G. rolling, Junr's bill cherry boards & joist 
Elisha Stone's bill, carpenter work 
do. do. bill pine boards 



S. Wales' bill chairs 

Conway & Kitteredge's bill, painting 
II. W. Carr's bill, cleaning & white washing 
Ross' bill, varnishing desks .... 
Brown's bill, planing, sawing & turning 
S. S. C. Jones' bill, nails & screws . 

Sundry bills carting 

Window fastenings. Inkstands, covers & screws 



Making a gross amount of ... 
From which deduct proceeds of sales of old lumber & rem 
nants of new, &c ' . 



Leaving a net expenditure as above of 

Brookline. Nov. 13, 1813. 

For School Committee. 

Sam'l Philbuick 



107 


on 


18 


61 


12 


50 


4 


99 


4 


32 


3 


25 


4 


23 



300 10 



18 49 



281 61 



Committee on grievances in connection with Cemetery. 
Report read. 

Voted, To lay the report on the table. 

Voted, That the investigating Committee chosen in March 
last (of which Dea. Thomas Kendall was chairman) to exam- 



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BrooMine Town Records. 



ine the accounts of the Cemetery Committee be discharged 
from further duty, at their request. 

Minority Report of Committee on grievances was read. 

Voted, To take up the Majority report. 

A very angry discussion arrose on the reports, 

Whereupon George Griggs, Esq., after making a very 
conciliatory address, Moved, That the whole subject be laid 
on the table, and the Committee be discharged, which was 
adopted by Yeas and Nays, as follows : 



Yeas. 
Amos Atkinson 
William Bird 
John A. Bird 
David Coolidge 
David S. Coolidge 
George Craft 
William Capen ' 
Joshua C. Clark 
Samuel Clark , 

Timothy Corey 
Isaac Cook 
Timothy Corey, Jun. 
Isaac Dearborn 
Benjamin B. Davis 
George Dunn 
Harrison Fay 
Thomas Griggs 
William J. Griggs 
George Griggs 
Abijah Warren Goddard 
Charles Heath 
John Hayden 
Edward Hall 
Charles Howe 
James Leeds 
Martin Morse 
John Dane 
Charles Morse 
Michael Melleu 
Lyman Morse 
Augustus T. Newell 
Henry J. Oliver 
James L. Oliver 
Daniel Pierce 
William Perry 
James Patten 



Nays. 
Augustus Allen 
George Babcock 
.lames Bartlett 
Benjamin Bradley 
George Bell 
Joshua W. Blanchard 
Samuel Bryant 
Hiram R. Bean 
William P. Brewer 
George W. Colbeth 
George S. dishing 
Win. W. Clement 
A. H. Clapp 
John Dustin 
Elkanah Foss 
John Gibbs 
Samuel Goddard 
Clark L. Haynes 
William A. Humphrey 
William Hall 
Moses Jones 
Joseph Kimball 
James Morse 
George W. Merrell 
Charles D. Perry 
Moody Page 
Samuel Page 
Edward Pray 
Charles Reed 
Calvin Smith 
Thomas Seaverns 
Franklin Stone 
George Stoddard 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Amos Snow 
Luther Seaverns 



Meeting, November 13, 1843. 



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Samuel Fhilbrick 
John Robinson 
James Robinson 
Benjamin H. Rhoades 
Charles Stearns, Jr. 
Marshal Stearns 
Edward R. Secomb 
Samuel A. Shurtlief 
Elisha Stone 
Charles Smith 
Seth T. Thayer 
< His Withington 
Moses Withington 
Joseph White 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Daniel Sanderson 
Solomon P. Stearns 

George A. Brewer 

Moses Andeni — 56. 



Charles W. Tohuan 
Luther Tinkham 
John W. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Samuel A. Walker 
David Whitney 
Amos Whittemore 
Oliver Whyte, Jun. 
Henry Whitney 
George Bartlett 
Thomas Calef— 47. 



Adjourned. Sine-die. 



Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



PETITION OF JEREMIAH LYON AND OTHERS. 

To /In' Honorable tin- Senate <m<i House of "Representatives of the Common- 
wealth <>f Massachusetts in General Court assembled: 

The undersigned, inhabitants of that part of Roxbury which adjoins the 
east part of Brookline, and residing in the immediate vicinity of School 
Houses, Post Office and Town House of Brookline, respectfully petition 
your Honorable body, that a line may be drawn, dividing Roxbury and 
Brookline, through the centre of Muddy Brook, so called ; beginning where 
said Brook runs near the intersection of the Mill Dam Road with the 
County Road, and pursuing the line of the said Brook through the estate 
of Henry S. Ward; thence following said Brook through the land of 
Samuel Wyman, until it meets a wall dividing said Wyman's land from 
the land of Joseph Curtis: thence following said wall nearly in a north- 
easterly direction, until it meets the present line of division between 
Roxbury and Brookline. 

Your petitioners would hereby become inhabitants of Brookline, and 
able to avail themselves of School Houses, Post Office and Town House, 
near to them, very much to their convenience, and without injury to any 
one. They therefore pray that the said line may be established as a 
boundry line between Roxbury and Brookline. and as in duty bound will 
ever pray. 

Jeremiah Lyon, and 23 others. 



102 BrooTdine Town Records. 

ORDER OF NOTICE. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

In Senate, Jan. 17, 1841. 
On the petition aforesaid, Ordered, That the petitioners cause an 
attested copy of their Petition, with order thereon, to be published in the 
Boston Courier and the Bay State Democrat three times, and also to be 
served on the Several Clerks of the Towns of Roxbury and Brookline 
ten days, at least, before the first clay of February next, that all persons 
interested may then appear and show cause, if any they have, why the 
Prayer of said Petition should not be granted. 
Sent down for concurrence. 

CHAS. Calhoun, Clerk. 

Ix mi: House of Representatives, Jan. 17. 1844. 
Concurred. 

('has. W. Storey, Jr., Clerk. 

A true copy. 

Attest : Charles Calhoun. 

( 'lerk of the Senate. 



WARRANT FOR JANUARY MEETING. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 
To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Town of BrooTdine: 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn all the inhabitants of 
said town, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at 
the Centre School House in said town, on Tuesday, the 
thirtieth day of January, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to 
act on the following articles, Viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

Second. To hear and act on an Order of Notice from the Legislature 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the Petition of Jeremiah 
Lyon and others relative to being set on' from Roxbury, and annexed to 
Brookline. 

Third. Also to hear and act upon the report of the Committee upon 
the Town Hall. 



Meeting, January 30, 1844. 1<>3 

Given under our hands and Seals, this twentieth day of Jan- 
uary, eighteen hundred and forty-four. 

[l.s.] } Selectmen 
David Coolidge, [l.s.] > of 
Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, January 28, 1844. 

By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the within men- 
tioned persons to appear at the time and place, for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brooklim . 

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline, legally 
warned and assembled at the Centre School House on Tues- 
day, January 30, 1844, — 

Mr. Abijah W. Goddard was chosen Moderator by one 
vote. 

Voted, That we accede to the prayer of the Petition of 
Jeremiah Lyon and others. 

The following Report was read : 

REPORT ON TOWN HALL. 

The Committee appointed by the Town of Brookline in Novr. la-t to 
look out a suitable location for a Town Hall & Engine House, procure a 
plan, and estimate of the probable cosl of the building &c, would now 
report, — That although they gave early attention to the business, & have 
pursued it as closely as circumstances of illness, severity of the weather 
and the prevailing tardiness >.<: disinclination on the part of land holders 
to part with their land on any reasonable terms would permit, your Com- 
mittee have not. till within a week past, obtained from any one such 
terms for the disposal of an eligible site as they felt warranted in report- 
ing for the acceptance of the Town. — which has nessarily allowed but a 
very limited time for obtaining information in regard to a model for a 
building best adapted to the particular location & wants of the Town. & 
for procuring an estimate of the expense necessary for its construction. 
Your Committee, nevertheless, have deemed it proper. to make the Town 
acquainted with the result of their labours, at this time, tho' earlier than 
had been contemplated. 

Your committee have obtained the refusal of three Seperate locations 
which they now present to the consideration of the Town. One is owned 
by Silas Pierce, & is the same parcel of land he purchased of the Town in 
1840. His terms for about i of an acre having about G rods front on 
Walnut Street adjoining the Centre school house is 500 dolls, conditioned 
that the Hall when built shall stand as far westward on the lot as the 
post now standing in the street near the wall, and that the Town shall 



104 Brookllne Town Records. 

build the whole partition fence. Tins-fixed location is by no means the 
best which this lot will allow and is greatly inferiour in many respects 
to one at the east, beyond the eastern bonndry of this lot. In considera- 
tion of this your committee prevailed on Mr. Pierce to name his terms 
for a further quantity of about 20 Rods of land on the eastern side, giv- 
ing nearly three rods more length on Walnut Street : and presenting a 
more convenient and eligible site, requiring less expense in the founda- 
tion and admitting a more dry and airy basement, and foreclosing the 
liability of another building being placed in front on Mr. Pierce's 
premices — considering these advantages, your committee are unanimous 
in giving preference to the larger quantity of land notwithstanding a 
further sum of 500 dolls, is required to purchase it. A plan for a Hall 
prepared for this lot before the terms for the other lots were obtained, 
will be presented with this report. It is designed to stand end towards 
the street, 73 ft. in length including a portico of 7 ft. supported by 4 
doric pillars, the interior of the Hall is CO ft. by 36£ ft. within the walls 
& 174 ft- between the floor & ceiling, lighted by 8 windows of 15 lights 
20 by 14 inches each, with a small window in the ceiling over the plat- 
form to receive the light from the southern attic window. The floor to 
be permanently seated with 30 seats 1G4, ft. in length, allowing room for 
330 adult persons to sit comfortably. & pass each other without disturb- 
ance A basement story of 8 ft. mostly below the level of the street, will 
give ample space for two rooms l(i ft. by 18 ft. each for use of Selectmen, 
Assessors & Committees. Also for an Engine House if considered a 
suitable location. & a cellar for a furnace & other needful purposes — or 
for a primary school room if considered an unsuitable location for a tire 
engine. The estimates for cost of this building have been made by Mr. 
Edwards, calculating the basement story of brick, walls 16 inches in 
thickness. — with a shingle roof and copper gutters — without finishing 
any part of the basement excepting the two rooms for use of Selectmen 
&c, all other parts to be thoroughly finished of best materials & work- 
manship, including three Chandeliers. & furnace complete, for the sum of 
4000 dollars. 

Another lot owned by James Bartlett, is situated on Washington St. 
between the estates of Mr. Holden and Mr. Leeds Measuring 205 ft. on 
Washington St. and extending back 180 ft. containing 31.104 ft. of land 
— by the plan; The price is 3 cts. per foot, amounting to $935. 82c. 
This lot, tho' not so central as the other is considered by your committee 
an eligible & beautiful situation— combining the advantages of an eligible 
place for a lire engine house & two spacious School rooms which may be 
made in the basement, at small additional expense sufficient accommoda- 
tions of 144 scholars, allowing two ample rooms for the tire engine, and 
allowing the sale of the old school house & lot in School St. The pro- 
ceeds of which together with the saving of expense that would be 
required for a seperate Engine house may be safely estimated at 1600 
do's. — without disposing of the land purchased in School Street last 
summer. Another saving of 400 to 500 dols. can be made in this arrange- 
ment by dispensing with the removal of the School house on School 
Street & the additions and repairs that will soon be found necessary for 



Meeting, January 30, 1844. 105 

the accommodation of the district school in that house : besides a per- 
petual saving of expense in keeping in repair an Engine house and School 
house in seperate buildings. In addition to these advantages, a very 
large quantity of gravel can be taken from this hill for the repair of 
roads, a part of which must be removed before the building can be 
erected. 

A plan for the basement floor only lias been prepared for this location ; 
the hall in the plan for the other location will answer for this also. 
Some alteration in the model for this location will be necessary, the 
stairway from the basement to the hall must be in the entry, which will 
require more length to the building, and probably an increased expense 
including the finishing the school rooms of 500 to 1000 dols., above the 
other estimate. Your Committee have had no time to get an estimate for 
this location, as the terms on which it could be had were not laid before 
as definitely till last evening. 

The third lot named by your committee is owned by Mr. Bird situated 
on the corner of Boylston & Cypress Streets, measuring -i rods on 
Boylston & 8 rods on Cypress streets, making 32 square rods: the price 
is $696.96. This location having no advantage of sheds for horses, and 
not so eligible a situation for an engine house £ having no other advan- 
tages not combined in the other locations — your Committee consider it 
of less consideration than cither id" the other lots. 

The plan prepaired for the lot owned by Silas Pierce will answer 
equally well for this it' thought preferable by the Town. 

If the Town should flunk proper to accept of either the aboved named 
terms for the purpose of erecting a building, your committee would 
recommend the use of the fund reed, from the Federal Government 
towards the expense, & that the balance required should be borrowed by 
the Treasurer when needed on the best possible terms not exceeding an 
interest of 6 per cent payable in animal instalments of 500 dols. each, with 
interest annually, first deducting 500 dols. to be raised the ensuing year. 

All which is submitted in behalf of the Committee. 

Samuel Phjxbrick, Chairman. 

Brookxine, Jan. 30, 1844. 

Voted, That the terms offered by Mr. James Bartlett for 
the sale of a site for a Town Hall, as Reported this day by 
the Committee on the Town Hall, be accepted : and that 
Messrs. Samuel Philbrick, Bela Stoddard, and Charles 
Stearns Junr. be hereby appointed a building Committee who 
are authorized to close the contract for said lot of land, and 
take a deed in behalf of the Town of the same — and who are 
further authorized to proceed to the erection and completion 
of a building on said lot, according to the plan and sugges- 
tions of the aforesaid Committee, this day presented — and 
the fund received from the Federal Government be hereby 



106 Brooldine Town Records. 

appropriated, and that a further sum of 4000 dollars be also 
appropriated for the purpose of defraying the expense of the 
land and Hall aforesaid. And that the Treasurer is hereby 
authorized to borrow when needed the sum, not exceeding 
the sum of four thousand dollars on the best possible terms, 
not exceeding an interest of 6 per cent, payable in annual 
instalments of five hundred dollars each, with Interest, 
which several amounts shall be placed at the disposal of the 
building Committee above mentioned, when needed. 

Voted, That the building Com. be authorized to get the 
building insured while building. 

Adjd. without day. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR MARCH MEETING. 
Norfolk, ss. 
To Elisha Stone, Constable of the Toivn of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the said town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in town affars to meet at 
Lyceum Hall in said town on Monday the fourth day of 
March next at one o'clock in the afternoon at which time 
and place the polls will be opened for the following pur- 
poses Viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

Second. To receive the report of the Treasurer and of any Committees 
that are prepared to report, and act thereon. 

Third. To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

Fourth. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

Fifth. To see what the town will do relative to widening the road, and 
filling up a part of the Brook on Washington Street, near the estate of 
Mr. Tay. 

Sixth. To see if the town will authorize the School Committee to 
introduce '• instruction in the Elements of Vocal Mustek " into the public 
schools. 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 107 

Seventh. To take into consideration the subject of causing a Survey 
and a map of the town to be made, and to adopt measures to carry the 
same into eftect. 

Eighth. To grant and appropriate such sums of Money, as may be 
necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doing thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time & place 
of said meeting. 

You are also hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of 
the said town of Brookline, qualified to vote in Elections, to 
bring in to the Selectmen at the Centre School House in said 
town, on Monday the first day of April next at two o'clock 
in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be 
opened, their Votes for three County Commissioners and two 
special commissioners for the County of Norfolk being all 
inhabitants of different towns within said County, to serve 
for three years from the first Monday in April 1844, and 
until others are chosen in their stead. 

Given under our hands and seals, this twentieth day of Feb- 
ruary in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight 
Hundred and Forty-Four. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ^ Selectmen 

[l.s.] i of 
Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 1, 1S44. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within 
mentioned. 

Elisha Stoxe, Constable of Brookline. 

The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. John Pierce, 
D. D. The following officers were chosen for ensuing vear : 

f Captain Daniel Sanderson was chosen Moderator. 
Otis Withington was unanimously re-elected Town Clerk and the 
Oath administered by the Moderator. 

Daniel Sanderson, 2d Balloting 53 out of 90. ] 
^ H David Coolidge. do. do. V Selectmen. 

£> Thomas Griggs, do. do. J 

Charles Stearns, Jr.. 47 out of 7 

A. W. Goddard, 46 out of 77 )■ Assessors. 

Timothy Corey, 44 out of 77 



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BrooJcline Town Records. 



r Artemas Newell, 71 out of 01, Treasurer and Collector. 

B y J Rev. Jojin Pierce. D.D.. unanimously ") General 
ballot. | << wm. Shailer, do. V School 

I Samuel Philbrick, do. j Committee. 



Charles Stearns, Jr., North 
T. W. Wellington, South 
Samuel Hills, South West j 

Elisha Stone, Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 



District | Prudential 

[ School Com. 



Charles Stearns, Jr 
Thomas Griggs, 
Samuel Philbrick, 
Royal Macintosh, 
William White, 
George W. Goldsmith, 1st 
Caleb Craft, Jr., 2d 



1st North District 

2d North 

3d North 

1st & 2d Middle 
3d Middle 

South 

South " 



John W. Warren, . 3d South 

Hugh M. Sanborn, Eastern Section of Turnpike 

Simon Warren, Western do. do. 

Marshal Stearns 
Seth T. Thayer. 
James Bartlett, 



Surveyors of 
Highways. 



Voted, To choose 8 Field Drivers Viz. 



Samuel A. Walker, sworn at Town Meeting, 

Clark L. Haynes, 

Charles Warren, 

Benjn. Bradley, sworn at town meeting, 

Thomas C. Quimbv. sworn at town meeting, 

Caleb Clark. 

James L. Oliver, 

Timothy Corey, Jr., 



Field 
Drivers. 



William W. Clement, 
T. W. Wellington, 



Fence Viewers. 



omniittee on Town Accounts. 



Simon Warren, Pound Keeper. 

Charles Wild, M. I)., ) 
Elijah Corey, j- C 

Marshal Stearns, J 

Klisha Stone, ') , , , , , 
. TT ru Constables. 

A. H. Clapp, j 

Samuel A. Walker, ~\ 

James Bartlett, > Cemetery Committee. 

Hugh M. Sanborn, j 

John Bullard had seventv-six Votes for County Treasurer, 



Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

The following Report of the Treasurer & Auditors was 
read : 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

In accordance with a vote of the town the Treasurer would now render 
a report of the state .of the Treasury, an account of receipts into the 
Treasury, and settlements of all bills due from the town up to the first 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 109 

•lay of February last, including some bills of more than a year standing 
which "will necessarily show a much larger amount than the current 
expenses of the town for one year. The expenses have also been much 
increased by sundry contingencies which were not anticipated at the last 
Annual Meeting, and has consequently caused the expenses to exceed the 
estimates and appropriations in many cases. 

There was cash on hand at the last report of the Treasurer L339 95 

Received from the state Treasurer for Support of State i 

Paupers . . . . . . . . . . / 25 55 

Received from State Treasury on Account of Military i 

Bounty . . . . ' .J 15 00 

Received from state Treasury as income from the Massachu- i 

setts School Fund i 34 32 

Amount of Taxes levied for 1843 . . . 472] 52 i 

Less the Amount of Abatements by Assessors . 63 50 j 4658 02 



Received of the Overseers of the poor the Amount of dam- | 

ages they recovered of William' Redding on account of > 52 lo 

Eliza Thompson, one of the paupers . . . .J 

Received of Dea. Thomas Griggs Treasurer of the Brooklinel 

School Fund . . / 291 7i> 

Received of Mr. Stephen S. C. .lotus the Amount of income) 

from the Hay Scales / 89 60 

Received of Merchants Bank Boston the Amount borrowed \ 

by the Selectmen for the repairs of the Engine . . J 500 00 

Making the whole Amount received into the Treasury during ] 

the year ending February 1, 1*44. including the amount [■ 

on hand at the last report J 7006 33 

There has been paid from the Treasury by order of the Selectmen for 
the various expenses of the town the following Amounts, Viz. • 

For the Support or the Poor $854.39 Viz. : 
For the Maintainance of a Son of Amasa Jackson 
For the Support of George Thompson & his Avife 
For the Support of William C. Aspinwall 
For Support of Mrs. Kenrick .... 
For Assistance of Mrs. Bond .... 
For Support of Harriet King .... 
For Support of Eliza Thompson .... 
For the Support of the Child of Eliza Thompson 
For Assistance to Anna Dana .... 
For Support or Assistance to Samuel Walcott 
For board of Lucy King . 

Making the Whole Amt. for the Support of Paupers 854 39 

Expense of Education $1812.11 as follows : 
For the Establishment and Support of the High School 
including the necessary Apparatus for the School Rooms. 
&c. 8765.59 to wit : 

To Mr. Benjn. H. Rhoades for his Salary for Nine ) 

Months @ 700 dol. per year J 525 00 



56 


25 


161 


38 


273 


29 


74 


17 


20 22 


67 


59 


101 


18 


17 


00 


21 


0(( 


43 


on 


19 


28 



110 Broohline Town Records. 

Brought forward 525 00 $854 39 

To Mr. James Pierce for his services as Assistant in 

the high school Three Months @ 15$ per month . 45 00 

To Mr. James Pierce for his services as Assistant 
for two Months by a subsequent agreement @ 
$250 per year 41 66 

For the expense of Fuel, Stoves, Maps and other fur- 
niture and apparatus for the use of the School . 153 93 

Making the expense 765 59 

There has been paid for the expense of the North 

district School 372 46 

For the expense of Middle district school . . . 294 22 
For the expense of South district school . . . 334 84 
For the District School Library 45 00 



Making the whole expense on Act. of schools . 1812 11 

Expenses of Highways $1114.49, as follows: 

There has been paid to Martin Morse for expense of 

repairs of highways on first North District . 100 00 

To Dea. Thomas Griggs for 2d North District) 

$170. expense of laying drain 12 dols. . f 182 00 

To Mr. Samuel Philbrick for third North district 82 55 
To Mr. George S. Cushing for first Middle dis. . 110 00 

To Mr. Daniel Sanderson for Second Middle district 40 
To Mr. Geo. W. Goldsmith for 1st South District . 60 
To Mr. George Craft for 2d South District . . 100 
To Mr. John W. Warren for 3d South District . 120 

To Mr. Hugh M. Sanborn for Eastern Turnpike . 160 
To Mr. Timothy W. Wellington for Western Turnpike 90 
To Mr. Royal Mcintosh for widening the road and 

relaying the wall on Heath Street . . .20 

To Mr. David Whitney for laying wall and repairing 
side walk on Harvard Street near the residence of 

Mr. Bartlett 43 

To Mr. Joseph Goddard the amount of his highway 

tax for the repairs of the road to his house . 3 
To Mr. Abijah W. Goddard the amount of his high- 
way tax for the repairs of his road . . 3 94 

Making the whole expense of Repairs of Roads . 1114 49 

Expenses of Fire department, Engine, &c, $883.70. 
The Expenses of this department have been increased to 
a very unusual amount, by the circumstance as probably is 
well known, of the Engine House being discovered to be on 
fire on the morning of the 12th day of September last, which 
resulted in the total destruction of the house, and the almost 
entire destruction of the Engine and all its apparatus, besides 
some property owned by the Engine Company, it was sup- 
posed to be the work of an incendiary. The expense of 

Carried up . . $3780 99 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. Ill 

Brought forward . . $3780 99 
repairs of the engine, and new Hose & apparatus together 
with the other expenses consequent upon the renting of the 
Engine & Company originated most of the following charges 
to wit : 

There has been paid to Mr. Alfred Tufts for Sundry i 

repairs. New Wheels &c. for Hose Carriages | 17 75 
To Mr. Wm. H. Brown for part of Harness and 

other work on account of Engine . . .12 58 

To Mr. Henry S. Ward, his bill for sundry articles ) 

purchased for the Engine Co. . . j 24 02 

To Mr. A. H. Lambert for his bill for repairs of the 

Engine 10 'X'> 

To Messrs. Hunneman & Co. their hill of Repairs 

and Xew apparatus for Engine Company 
To Mr. Coolidsre for 6 Benches for Engine House 
To Mr. Cousens f<>r making tables for Engine House 
To Mr. Wm. Conway for his services taking care of 

Engine <&c 

To Mr. A. H. Clapp for taking care of Engine . 
To Mr. Morse & A. Newell for storing and other ex- 
penses of Engine & Co. l'< 46 

To E. Stone for repairing fence &c. about Engine 

House 

To Mr. Stephen S. C. Jones for merchandise for 

Engine House & Company ..... 
To Mr. J.Davenport for refreshments supplied the 

Company ........ 

For making the whole expense for Engine & Co. . $833 "it 

Town Officers, Assessing & Collecting Taxes, Station- 
ary. Printing, Room for Selectmen, &c. 

Taid to Dr. Tierce & Mr. Shailer for their services ) 

as School Committe for three years . . / 150 

Paid for sundry bills for printing, assessors books, 

postage, bills & stationary. &c 41 07 

Paid to Selectmen for Services and traveling Ex- 
penses when attending to town affairs . . 78 62 

Paid Mr. Otis WTthington for services as Toavu Clerk 35 00 



627 


90 


6 


00 


4 


81 


26 


00 


43 


(III 



5 


20 


10 


89 


3 


66 



Paid Assessors for assessing Taxes. 7$ each 21 00 \ 

paid for casting taxes and all other expenses >- 51 00 

of Ass's 30 00 J 

Paid for room and lights &c. for use of Selectmen 

and assessors during the year . . . . 25 00 

Paid A. Newell for Collecting Taxes, services as 
Treasurer and duties with Selectmen & Station- 
ary, &c. 168 03 

Paid Elisha Stone for warning Town meetings and 

for other services as Constable . . . .27 



304 69 



Making the whole Amt. under the head of Town 

Officers 575 72 

Carried forward $5495 10 



112 



Brookline Town Records. 



Brought forward 
Repairs of Buildings. Purchase <>i Heal Estate, &c. 

There has been paid to Thomas A. Davis for 18107 
feet of land for the accomodation of the School 
in the North District. & for gravel for the high- 
ways @ 2 cents per foot 

Recording deed 

Paid Sundry bills to the school Committee & others 
for the expense of altering the town House into 
school rooms and for repairs of the building 

Paid small bills for repairs of School House 



$5495 1< ► 



362 14 
63 



391 G9 
4 95 



Making the cost of repairs, land, &c. 
Guide & Street Boards. 

Paid to Samuel A. Walker, Esq., for the expense of 

painting two Street boards in Cypress street . 3 00 
Paid Mr. Silas Snow for painting street boards . 5 50 

Paid Mr. Elisha Stone for Guide boards and putting 

up the same 5 10 



759 11 



Expense of Guide & Street Boards. 



13 60 



Taxes 
Paid County Taxes 
" Tax on land in Needham 



448 40 
2 35 



Sundry Expenses. 

Paid for four Soldiers for Military services 
Paid Collector for Bad Money Reed, for Taxes 
Paid Josiah Russell for Repairing Pound Wall . 
Paid Mr. Stone for expense for room, &c. of corro- 

ners inquest on the body of Robert Noyes 
Paid for Lyceum Hall for Nov. Meeting 
Paid Merchants Bank, interest on five Hundred Dol- 
lars borrowed for 8 Months @ 4^ per cent 
Paid Charles Sterns, Jr., for Cash advanced the 
State Lunatic Hospital ..... 

Amounting in all to 

And making the whole amt. pd. from the Treasury 
since the last report 

Which being deducted from the receipts, leaves a 
balance in the Treasury, including a small 
amount of uncollected taxes of 



20 


on 


5 


00 


10 


50 


2 


50 


15 


00 



15 19 



30 04 



All of which is Submitted. 



450 75 



$98 23 



6512 40 



493 93 



$7006 33 
Artemas Newell, Treasurer. 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 



113 



COM. ON TOWN ACCOUNTS. 

Brookline, March 1st. 1844. 
The undersigned have carefully examined the accounts of the Treas- 
urer Mr. Artemas Newell of which the above is a close and true report 
and again lind it their duty as it is their pleasure to express their unqual- 
ified approbation of the unsurpassible accuracy & tidelity which has 
marked the performance of his duties during the past year. They find it 
necessary to recommend to the town an augmented tax to meet the 
increased expenditure already voted at a former town meeting. This 
tax they base upon the following Estimate, Viz. : 



For Supporl of the Poor 
Repairing buildings & roads 
Mending Highways .... 

Education 

Engine 150 f Town Oflicers 250 . 
Assessing & Collecting taxes 

County & Needliam taxes 450$ Contin 

gences 200 

Borrowed Money 500, 1st pay'1 Town 
house 500 ...... 



From which may be deducted probable 



850 
200 
1000 
1900 
400 
200 

650 
1000 
(!200 



receipts 

| School Fund 
I Hay Scales 
-! Paupers . 

Slate payts. 
(_ On hand . 



In round numbers 5500$. 



125 

7."> 
25 

:,o 
47.". 



785 as above. 



5415 



Charles Wild, "I ,-. ,. ... „ 
Elijah Corey, j c <>mmUtee. 



Voted, To accept the report. 



SCHOOL COM. REPORT. 

The School Committee of -the Town of Brookline would respectfully 
submit the following report : 

In presenting our report last year we took the liberty of suggesting 
some alterations in regard to the schools in this town. The suggestions 
which were then made, had been the subject of mature deliberation with 
your Committee and originated in their observations and experience, 
Avhile visiting, examining and carefully watching over the interests of 
the schools. To change merely for the sake of change we were then, 
and still are opposed. But in all progress there must be some changes. 
8 



114 Brookline Town Records. 

New plans must be adopted, to meet the wants of society in its onward 
march. There is no one of us who supposes that the advantages for a 
common school education, enjoyed in the days of our childhood, will meet 
the demands of our children, at the present day. As society progresses 
in literature and general knowledge, nothing is more evident than that 
changes must be effected in the system of common school instruction. 
That the changes then proposed would discommode some individual fam- 
ilies to a certain extent the Com. were fully aware, but yet they were 
decidedly of the opinion that the interests of the town as a whole 
demanded that such changes should be made. 

One of these changes pertained to the establishment of a High .School 
in the centre of the town. For several years there have been individuals 
Avho had felt the need of such a school, and who for a want of it had 
been obliged to send their children to a private school in town, or to send 
them away from home, at considerable expense at the very age when they 
especially need to be under the parents watch fullness and care. There 
were other families whose children were growing up. and needed to be 
thoroughly educated. But their parents felt unable to incur the expense 
of educating them in a private school at home, or to keep them at an 
academy abroad. And yet no parents felt a more tender solicitude for 
their children, a stronger desire that they might be educated and pre- 
pared for respectability and usefulness in future life, than these. The 
plan then laid before the town seemed to grow out of the exigences in 
which we were placed, and called for by the increasing wants of the 
town. By orders which were then passed, your Com. procured a teacher, 
and made arrangements for the opening of a school for instruction in 
the higher branches of a good education on the first of May. The terms 
for admission were that a scholar should be a resident of some family 
in town, and have passed the age of ten years. It was thought that the 
room under the town hall would be sufficent to accommodate all that 
might wish to attend for some two or three years. But on opening the 
school it was found that all who came could not be furnished with seats, 
and some further provision must of necessity be made. Immediately 
desks and seats for ten more scholars were procured. These however 
were not adequate to meet the demands, and during the summer term 
some were obliged to occupy benches and settees, with nothing before 
them upon which to rest their slates, or their books. Under these 
circumstances the Com. saw that they must either alter the terms for 
admission into the school, fixing upon certain qualifications to be 
demanded, or still further advancement in age, or the town must make 
some more ample provision for the accommodation of the scholars. 

To the first alternative your com. were unwilling to resort, as it would 
turn out from the school some who were receiving and who needed its 
advantages. At their request therefore a meeting of the town was 
called in August, and the subject laid before them in a full report of your 
com. The intelligent view which the town took of this subject, the 
promptness and unanimity with which they agreed to make more ample 
provision for the school is deserving of remark, and showed that the 
education of their children was in their estimation a subject of much 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 115 

interest and importance. A room was therefore fitted up, and made 
ready for the opening of the fall term, which for neatness and beauty 
and convenience is surpassed by very few in the Commonwealth. The 
school at that time had so increased that it was found to be not only 
expedient, but absolutely necessary, that an assistant should be provided. 
Arrangements were accordingly made, and since that time, both rooms 
in the building have been occupied. Your com. considering the age of 
the scholars, the distance from which some of them came, the evils thai 
might result to the house, and to them, by remaining there during an 
intermission, thought it advisable to have but one session per day and 
that continued Ave hours. This, together with the rules adopted to 
secure the punctual & regular attendance of the scholars, we believe to 
have been highly beneficial to the school, and they see no sufficient 
reasons for proposing an alteration at present. The school has now 
been in operation ten months, during which time the whole number 
of scholars attending is ninety, of these forty eight were males and 
forty two were females. The largest number in attendance at any one 
time has been about seventy five. The average for the whole ten months 
has been about fifty seven. 

The expense to the town for each scholar during a whole year under 
the present arrangement is about .$13.50 exclusive of interest on value of 
building repairs, &c., while in the Boston High School it is about $36.00 
exclusive of the same. Upon the whole the school thus far, has sur- 
passed the fondest expectations of your Com. Its teachers we believe 
to be well qualified for their station, and from our monthly visits and 
quarterly examinations, we are prepared to say that they have been 
faithful and thorough in their instructions, and we cannot but hope the 
school will be of great and permanent benefit to the town. Another 
change proposed by your Com. in their last annual report pertained to 
the continuance of female teachers, in the other schools during the year, 
rather than changing from male to female teachers once in six months. 
This plan was maturely considered, with its advantages and disadvan- 
tages by your committee before it was proposed to the town, and from 
actual experiment which had been made in one school in this town for a 
number of years, from observation made in towns, where the plan had 
been in operation for some time, from the localities of our districts 
and the number of scholars which they embraced, we firmly believed it 
to be the best arrangement that could be made under existing circum- 
stances. We have carefully watched the working of this plan during the 
past year and see no sufficient reason for its being changed. 

Having altered the time of our annual examination of the schools from 
the last week in March to the last week in Feb. in order to have our 
annual report fully made up to the annual meeting of the town, we are 
prepared to speak with more confidence upon this point. All our schools 
were thoroughly examined the last week, and those under the tuition of 
females, appeared at least as well as they usually have under the instruc- 
tion of males during the winter term. We can now have permanent 
teachers, and when Ave obtain good ones can continue them on, term after 
term and year after year without interuption. There have been in 



116 BrooHine Town Records. 

attendance at all our schools during the year 20i different scholars, about 
fifty more than were in attendance last year, and the number present at 
the examinations last week was much greater than in any preceeding 
year. As our town is rapidly increasing in population, and as our terri- 
tory will be somewhat enlarged in the course of two weeks, when the late 
law of the legislature annexing a part of Roxbury, shall take effect, it 
will be necessary to make some immediate arrangement for an additional 
teacher or for a division of the school in what is now termed the North 
district. 

That school has had fifty-four in attendance the past year with an 
average of about forty-four, and though its faithful teacher will take 
care of as many scholars as any other person, it would be unwise to 
have the school much enlarged without some provision for assistance. 
Your Com. think for the present at least the exigency may be met by the 
employment of another well qualified female to aid in such way as their 
successors in office may hereafter find it necessary to direct. 

We would also suggest whether under the present arrangement of our 
schools, it would not be advisable to have the employment of teachers 
for all the schools the duty of the general Committee. The law makes 
this their duty unless otherways ordered by the town. As it now is 
the general Com. employ a part, and the prudential committee apart, and 
we believe the whole business of employing teachers might with safety 
and advantage be referred to the same Com. The town will doubtless 
try to select men, who would not abuse this power, and in whose ability 
to decide respecting the merits of teachers they could have confidence. 
Such an arrangement would prevent some evils growing out of our 
present course, and we believe secure all of its advantages. We 
throw out the suggestion for the consideration of the town. 

In closing this report, it affords pleasure to your Com. to say that 
there is evidently an increasing interest among us in the great cause of 
education. We rind it in the promptness and liberality with which suit- 
able provision is made for our schools, in the efforts which parents have 
made to have their children regular aud punctual in their attendance and 
in all the improvements which have been realized in our system of 
common Schools. May this interest increase still more until we shall 
act worthily of the age in which we live, and furnish our children with 
the means of acting well their part in the age which shall come after us. 
Respectfully submitted, 

Wm. H. Shailer, Sec'ij. 
March f. 1844. 

Read and accepted by vote. 

The following was read, and accepted : 

CEMETERY COM. REPORT. 

The committee chosen by the town to superintend the cemetery for 
the past year would respectfully represent, that on entering upon the 
duties assigned to them they found by the last report of the former 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 



117 



rierk that there was a ballance in the treasurer's hands of eighteen 
douis ^ Sht cents. This was obtained, and as it appeared tha 
SS wasTLnand outstanding against the committee of twenty doUars 
t was resolved to discharge it forthwith by using tins sum, and by 
nisiuo-heaLunt of deficiency by the contribution of the committee 
The only revenue which has accrued to the cemetery during the past 
lar wi the "m of twenty-five dollars advanced by one of the com- 
Seas I price of a buriai lot, not yet selected. This amouut was 
appropriated to repairing and gravelling the avenues turn u, t ees 
&, ... and has constituted the principal operations of the committee 

during the year. 

The Treasurer's account stand therefore in thiswise, viz. : 

Buooki.inkCkmktkkv m .ccotTNTWiTH Moses Jom Treasurer. 



Jan. 10. pd. David Whitney outstanding bill 

Sept. 8. Pd. Jas. Gallagher for labour, 25J days 

L844. 

Mch. 2. pd. Caleb Clark for gravel . 



20 
25 50 

1 00 



46 50 



Cr. 
June 30. Rec'd of former Treas. bal. in bis bands . 18 58 
Augt.14. Cash advanced for burial lot 

1844. 
Mch. 2. Contributed by members of Com. 



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Your Committee are sorry to represent, that the «™ l «™f££ 
the last summer has produced serious hovoc among the young trees 
recety transplanted into the cemetery, and that the returning sprmg 
Ml exhibit the total destruction of from fifty to sixty ot them, with the 
mi a on of many others. They found also that the stakes marking 
Z Sundries of the lots, as laid out on the plan were ^mostly ^removed 
and before any sales can take place must be replaced m a substantial 
Ta ni « Tby a new measurement. It will be necessary during the ensue- 
£t season to clean the avenues from weeds and to prune the trees, if not 
to'i'pace some of those which have been destroyed To accomplish 
STand similar purposes, your Committee recommend ^tha an annual 
appropriation should be made by the town of a suitable sum, to be placed 
at P the P disposal of future committees, whenever the ^venues, »f the^eme- 
tery may be found inadequate to its contingences. Such a state of 
things will very probably occur during the next season as theie is no 
nros°nect of further sales of lots for the present. 

P Z one grave has been dug in the grounds during the past ^year and 
the urivele-e was gratuitous, as the subject was poor and died b> 
casualty light bodies have been entombed in the same period making 
ntrlnterments only in the cemetery ; two of which were ot bodies 
brought from other towns as follows, ^ iz. : 



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Meeting, March 4, 1844. 119 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to widen Wash- 
ington Street, where it crosses the brook adjoining the Estate 
of Harrison Fay, by extending the bridge & filling up the 
watering place — and that the sum of two hundred dollars be 
appropriated for that purpose. 

Voted, That the following persons, Viz. : 
Artemas Newell 
David Coolidge and 

Harrison Fay be a committee 

to inquire into the expediency of introducing "instruction in 
the Elements of Vocal Music " into the public schools, and 
report at the April meeting. 

Voted, That Messrs. Artemas Newell, Chas. Wild and 
Jessee Bird, be a com. to take into consideration the subject 
of causing a survey and a Map of the Town to be made, and 
to report at an adjournment of this meeting. 

Voted, That the sum of Five thousand seven hundred dol- 
lars be raised by assessment the ensuing year, for the various 
purposes ennumerated in the estimates of the Auditors' 
Report. And that the several sums be hereby appropriated 
to the several purposes therein specified. And that the sum 
of one thousand dollars appropriated to the repair of high- 
ways, shall be assessed upon Polls and Estates, and collected 
with, and in the same manner, as other Town charges are 
assessed and collected, and the same shall be divided among 
the several highway districts, in same manner and proportion 
as has been practiced for several years past. 

Voted, That the cemetery Committee be and are hereby 
authorized at the expense of the town, to employ E. F. 
Woodward of Newton, to measure and stake out all the lots 
in the Cemetery, giving the length and breadth of each lot, 
and the number of square feet, and note the same on the 
plan — and that the Cemetery Committee bound all the lots 
sold and unsold according to the plan of said Woodward. 

Voted, That a committee of consultation, to consist of 
seven citizens, be now appointed by the Moderator, for the 
purpose of advising, aiding and assisting the building com- 
mittee, in the location, construction, and erection of a building 



120 Brookline Town Records. 

suitable for a Town Hall, school rooms, Engine rooms, &c, 
agreeable to a vote of the Town at their meeting in Jan. last. 
The following were nominated and chosen : 

Thomas Griggs, Isaac Cook, 

A. W. Goddard, David Coolidge, 

Harrison Fay, Seth T. Thayer. 

Timothy Corey, 
Voted, To adjourn to first day of April next, at the Centre 
School House at four o'clock in the afternoon. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 4, 1844. 

Then personally appeared and took the Oath prescribed by 

law to the offices to which they had been respectively chosen, 

the following persons on the day of the date set against their 

names : 

March 4. Samuel A. Walker as Field driver. 

" Benjamin Bradley as Field Driver. 

" Thomas C. Quimby as Field Driver. 

8. Timothy Corey as Assessor. 

1). Caleb Craft, Jr.. as Surveyor of Highways. 

" James L. Oliver as Field Driver. 

" William "White as Surveyor of Highways. 

11. Elisha Stone as Constable and surveyor of Wood & 

Lumber. 

12. A. H. Clapp as ('unstable. 

John W. Warren as Surveyor of Highways. 

" Simon Warren as Surveyor of Highways and Pound Keeper. 

" Charles Warren as Field Driver. 

13. Hugh M. Sanborn as Surveyor of Highways. 

14. Samuel Philbrick as Surveyor of Highways. 
18. Thomas Griggs as Surveyor of Highways. 
23. Daniel Sanderson as Selectman. 

" Timothy Corey, Jr., as Field Driver. 

25. Thomas Griggs as Selectman. 

" David Coolidge as Selectman. 

" George W. Goldsmith as Surveyor of Highways. 

" Marshal Stearns as Fence Viewer. 

" James Robinson as Fence Viewer. 

28. Royal Macintosh as Surveyor of Highways. 

30. Jeremiah Lyon as Surveyor of Wood and Lumber. 

April 1. Charles Stearns, Jr., & Isaac Cook as Assessors. 

" Charles Stearns, Jr.. as Surveyor of Highways. 

O. Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



Meeting, March 4, 1844. 121 



[l.s.] WARRANT TO TAKE THE OATH. 

To ElisJta Stone, one of the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 

The following is a list of those persons who were this day 
chosen into office, at a meeting of the inhabitants of said 
town, and of whom an oath is by law required, Viz. : 
Daniel Sanderson & David Coolidge, as Selectmen ; Thomas 
Griggs as Selectman and Surveyor of Highways, A. W. God- 
dard & Timothy Corey as assessors, Charles Stearns, Jr., as 
assessor and surveyor of highways, Artemas Newell as 
Treasurer and Collector, Elisha Stone as Constable and sur- 
veyor of Wood and Lumber, Samuel Philbrick, Royal 
Macintosh, William White, George W. Goldsmith, Caleb 
Craft, Jr., John W. Warren, & Hugh M. Sanborn, as survey- 
ors of Highways, Simon Warren as surveyor of highways & 
pound keeper, Clark L. Haynes, Charles Warren, Caleb 
Clark, James L. Oliver, and Timothy Corey, Jr., as Field 
Drivers, William W. Clement and T. W. Wellington as 
Fence Viewers, A. H. Clapp as Constable. 

You are hereby required, in the name of the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, within three days from the date 
hereof, to notify and summon each of the said persons to 
appear before me, within seven days from the date you 
shall give such notice, to take the Oath by Law prescribed to 
the officers unto which they are respectively chosen. 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, within ten days from the date hereof. 

Given under my hand and seal this fourth day of March, 
A. D.'l844. " 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 11, 1844. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within named per- 
sons to appear and take the Oath as within directed. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 



122 Brookline Town Records. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 5, 1844. 

Personally appeared Artemas Newell, Esq., and made solemn oath that 
he would duly, faithfully & honestly perform the duties of Treasurer 
of the toAvn of Brookline for the year ensuing to the best of his knowledge 
& ability. 

Before me, 

Charles Wild, Jus. Piece. 
A true Copy, attest : Otis Withixgtox, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline, qualified to Vote in Elections, to meet at Lyceum 
Hall in said town, on Monda} T next, being the twenty-fifth 
day of March inst., at two o'clock in the afternoon, to act 
upon the following Articles, Viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

Second. To see if the town will reconsider the vote passed at a meet- 
ing held on the 30th day of January last, in relation to the location of a 
building for a Town Hall, School Rooms, Engine House, &c, for the 
purpose of hearing and acting upon proposals from the first Parish in 
Brookline concerning a different location. 

Third. To hear and act upon a report of the Building Committee in 
regard to separating the Engine House from the Toavii Hall, and upon 
any other business that they may have to communicate. 

Fourth. To see what course the Inhabitants will take to free the town 
from the sale of Ardent Spirits. 

Fifth. To see if the town will make an additional grant to repair the 
bridge in Cypress Street. 

Sixth. To see if the town will appoint a committee to draft a set of 
" By-Laws" for the regulation of the town and report at a future meeting. 

Seventh. To fill all vacancies that exist in town officers and to hear 
report of any other committees that are prepared to report. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time & 
place of meeting as aforesaid. 



Meeting, March 25, 1844. 123 

Given under our hands & seals this Twenty-first day of 
March, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty- 
four. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] j> Selectmm 
David Coolidge, l.s. V of BrooUine . 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s. J } J 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe, March 23d, 1844. 

By virtue of the -within warrant I have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within 

mentioned. 

Elisiia Stone, 

Constable of Broolditn . 
A true Copy. 

Attest: Otis Wiihinoton, Town Clerk. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant a meeting was held at 
Lyceum Hall, March 25th, 1844. 

Capt. Daniel Sanderson was chosen Moderator. 

Voted, That the building Committee, be a Committee on 
the part of the town, to confer with a com. of the First 
Parish, concerning a different location for the Town Hall, and 
that they report at an adjournment of this meeting. 

The following Report of the building Committee was read 
and accepted b} r Vote : 

REPORT OF BUILDING COM. 

The committee appointed by the Town of Brookline to purchase land 
& erect a building for a Town Hall, School rooms, Engine rooms, &c, 
ask leave respectfully to represent — 

That they have purchased for the purpose above named a lot of land 
situated between the estates of Messrs. James Leeds & James Holden on 
Washington Street, containing 114 Rods & 1574 square feet, or 31194 
square feet at 3 cents per foot amounting to §935.82 which has been 
paid by the Treasurer & a deed received on behalf of the Town. 

On a carefull examination and survey of the lot purchased your com- 
mittee are of the opinion, that the airy and eligible position to the school 
rooms and hall, as well as beauty of external appearance, will be greatly 
promoted by placing the front end of the building back at least 50 feet 
from the street, and elevating the sills 8 or 10 feet above the level of the 
street, according to a plan herewith presented, — which will place the Fire 
Engine, if connected with the Hall, in a position rather unfavorable in 
seasons of deep snow and at all times remote from water, unless the 
expense of sinking a reservoir on the lot should be incurred. There will 
also be an increased risk of fire to the building, from this connexion, and 



124 Brookline Town Records. 

the entrance from the street inconvenient for the Engine at all times. 
By separating the engine accommodation from the Hall, the external ap- 
pearance of the building maybe much improved, and better proportions, 
& more ample accommodation may be provided for the school rooms, 
entries, Selectmen's and committee rooms. By shortening the building 
and lessening the number of windows, &c, it is believed there can be a 
saving of half the expense requisite for building a separate engine house. 
Your committee have confered and advised with the consulting commit- 
tee on all these particulars, and both committees have agreed unanimously 
to recommend the erection of a separate building for the use of the Engine 
and Engine Company, to be located over or near the brook opposite the 
estate of Mr. Harrison Eay, where the Selectmen contemplate widening 
the passageway by filling up the watering place. Ample room for the 
building with the convenience of water may here be found. 

Your committee, therefore, respectfully request permission to exclude 
all provisions for the fire engine from the hall building, — and also that the 
charge of building an Engine House may be committed to the Selectmen, 
who can make arrangements for the location of the building, while filling 
up the watering place & widening the passageway for public travel. All 
which is respectfully submitted, for the building committee. 

S. Philbrick, Chairman. 

Brookline, March 25, 1844. 

Voted, That the building committee be authorized to 
omit making provision for the accommodation of the Fire 
Engine or the Engine Company in the building to be 
erected for a Town Hall, School rooms, &c, and that the 
Selectmen be hereb}' empowered & authorized to build an 
Engine House of suitable dimensions and place the same 
opposite the Estate of Mr. Harrison Fay, over or near the 
brook, or in any other place which they may consider more 
eligible or proper, and a further grant of three hundred 
dollars is hereby made and appropriated for that purpose. 



The following was adopted by vote 



VOTE ON PUNCH BOWL. 

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS OFFERED BY S. A. WALKER. 

Whereas, The recent painful and distressing occurrence in the death 
of Robert Noyes from Ardent Spirits, and by the verdict of the Jury his 
death was caused " by liquor obtained at the Punch Bowl and elsewhere," 
and whereas the location of the Punch Bowl Tavern renders it identified 
in the weal or woe of the town of Brookline, and by the indiscriminate 



Meeting, March 25, 1844. 125 

sale of Ardent Spirits is more clearly identified as injurious to the town, 
producing consequences that call loudly on the friends of good order and 
sobriety, There/on resolved, That this meeting view the untimely death 
of Robert Xoyes from intoxication with pain and sorrow, and that as 
good citizens we will do all in our power to prevent a like disasterous 
occurrence. 

Voted, That a committee of 20 of the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline he appointed, who shall repair in a body 
to the Punch Bowd Tavern, and under the sanction and 
authority' of the town remonstrate with Air. J. Sprague or 
whoever may have charge of the Punch Bowl, against in- 
toxicating drinks hereafter being sold by him or them, the 
result of which are disasterous to the town and community 
and especially to the youth, and should a friendly remon- 
strance prove unavailing, then said committee are hereby 
fully authorized and instructed to abait said nuisance and 
maintain the honor of the town and vindicate the violated 
laws of the commonwealth. 

Voted, That the Town Clerk furnish the propriator and 
Mr. J. Sprague, the keeper of the Punch Bowl, or whoever 
may hereafter occupy the same [as] the propriators with a 
copy of the foregoing Preamble, Resolution and Vote. 

The following were chosen as that committee : 

Samuel A. Walker. Caleb Craft, Jr. 

A. H. Clapp. Joshua W. Blanchard. 

Daniel Sanderson. "William Hardy. . 

David Coolidge. Charles Stearns, Jr. 

Thomas Griggs. A. W. Coddard. 

Otis Withiugton. Timothy Corey. 

Moses Jones. James Leeds. 

Samuel Goddard. Harrison Tecy. 

Hugh M. Sanborn. Samuel Craft. 

James Bartlett. Thomas Kendall. 



Voted, That One hundred dollars be appropriated and 
left in the hands of the Selectmen to repair the bridge in 
Cypress Street. 



126 BrooMine Town Records. 

Voted, That the article in the warrant, relating to draft- 
ing a set of By-Laws for the regulation of the town, be 
referred to the Selectmen, to report at a future meeting. 

Mr. A. W. Goddard declined acting as assessor. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick was chosen assessor. 

Voted, To excuse Mr. Philbrick at his own request. 

Mr. A. W. Goddard was re-chosen assessor. 

Mr. Marshal Stearns, ) , r, 17 . 

, T T tj i • <■ were chosen .bence Viewers. 

Mr. James Kobinson, $ 

Mr. Jeremiah Lyon was chosen Surveyor of Wood and 

Lumber. 

The following Report was read and accepted by Vote : 

REPORT ON MAP OF THE TOWN. 

The committee who were appointed at the last annual meeting to make 
inquiries in regard to the expense of a Survey and Map of the town, have 
attended to that duty and would now report. 

The committee have consulted two surveyors, Deacon Woodward of 
Newton & Mr. Charles Whitney of Roxbury. The difference in the esti- 
mated expense of a survey between the two is very considerable. A 
survey & a drawing by Dea. Woodward with a copperplate engraving, 
showing the most prominent objects in the town such as the high hills 
Woods & Buildings, and the name of each Householder, names of streets, 
distances put down in rods, &c, the engraving similar in character to 
the map of Needham, would cost, as nearly as can be estimated before the 
drawing is completed, about $250. 

A Survey with a full Topographical drawing by Mr. Whitney with a 
copper-plate engraving, showing all the prominent objects in the town, 
such as the Rivers, Brooks, Hills, Madows, Marshes, Swamps, Build- 
ings, Names of House-holders, Streets, names of streets, survey of streets 
and distances put down in rods, also embellished with some of the most 
modern Architectural designs in the town, making a complete and hand- 
some Map similar to the map of Roxbury, with a Book containing all the 
Notes of the town of Roxbury, would cost $600. In both estimates the 
committee have calculated the expense including paper and printing of 
five Hundred Copies and the plate will be the property of the town, and 
any number of copies can be printed at any time when needed and altera- 
tions can be made in the plate at any future time, when the improvements 
and alterations in the town require it. The dissimilarity and the differ- 
ence of expense between the two maps, is so great, that the committee 
do not feel at liberty to recommend the adoption of either of them, until 
the subject had been laid before the town and some more definite instruc- 
tions had been received in regard to the kind of Map that would satisf y 
the wants of the inhabitants. 

The great difference in the expense appears to be caused principally by 
the difference in the labor in making the surveys, taking the notes and 



Meeting, April 1, 1844. 127 

preparing the drawing for the hands of the engraver, also in the 
engraving of a plate that contains so much more matter than a plainer 
one. It only remains for the town to decide what kind of a Map they 
would prefer. 

All of which is submitted, 

Artemas Newell, 

Chairman of the Com. 
Brookline, March 25, 1844. 

Voted, That the subject of procuring a survey and map 
of the Town be referred back to the same Committee who 
with the advice and consent of the Selectmen are authorized 
to procure a survey by such person as they may deem 
proper, and have a map engraved and a sufficient number of 
copies provided for the use of the Town. 

Voted, To adjourn this meeting to Monday next, at \ past 
four o'clock in the afternoon at this place. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

April. At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline in said county, qualified by law to vote 
in the election of county officers, holden at said Brookline 
on the first day of April, being the first Monday of said 
month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and forty-four, for the choice of County Commissioners and 
Special Commissioners for said County, the said inhabitants 
gave in their written votes, on one ballot, for three County 
Commissioners, and also their written votes on one ballot, 
for two Special Commissioners, and the same being sorted, 
counted, and public declaration thereof made in open town 
meeting, by the Selectmen of said town, and the names of all 
the persons voted for, and the number of votes for each, 
and the whole number of ballots entered upon the records 
of said town by the town clerk thereof, it appeared that the 
whole number of ballots given for County Commissioners 



128 



Brookline Town Records. 



was sixty-nine, and that the names of the persons voted for 
as County Commissioners, and the number of votes given 
them, were as follows, to wit : 

For Samuel P. Lord of Dorchester Forty Seven. 

For Joseph Hawes of Walpole Forty Seven. 

For James C. Doane of Cohasset Forty Seven. 

For Benjamin P. Williams of Roxbury Fourteen. 

For Nathan Jones of Med way Fourteen. 

For Aaron Prescott of Randolph Fourteen. 

For Willis Fisher of Franklin Eight. 

For Lemuel Humphrey of Weymouth Eight. 

For Obed Baker of Dedham Eight. 

It also appeared that the whole number of ballots given in 
for Special Commissioners was sixty-nine, and that the 
names of the persons voted for as Special Commissioners, and 
the number of votes given them, were as follows : 

Benjamin P. Williams of Roxbury Forty Seven. 



Nathan Jones of Medway 
Laban Souther of Cohasset 
Martin Torrey of Foxborough 
Leonard Everett of Canton 

Adjourned Sine die. 



Forty Seven. 
Fourteen. 
Twenty two. 
Eight. 



Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



April 1, 1844. The adjourned meeting from March 4 
opened at Centre School House. 

Adjourned immediately to Lyceum Hall at 5 o'clock. 

The adjournment of the Special Meeting from March 25, 
1844, was held at Lyceum Hall. Capt. Daniel Sanderson 
in the chair. 

The following was read and accepted by vote : 

The committee Avho were appointed by the Town at their meeting on 
the 25th March to meet a committee from the first Parish & hear their 
proposals in regard to granting a part of the Parsonage land to the Town 
for a site for a Hall, &c, — Have accordingly had several interviews with 
said Parish committee. From the peculiar tenour of the deed granting 
said land to the Town it appeared doubtful to your committee, whether 



Meeting, April 1, 1844. 129 

the title was vested in the town, or in the Parish, consequently the sub- 
ject "was refered to the opinion of Judge Jackson, who after two days 
consideration save a written opinion in favour of the Parish. Upon 
further consultation of your committee with the Parish committee, it 
was their final conclusion to decline making any proposition to the Town 
on the subject of granting a site for a Town Hall, apprehending that the 
general harmony of both Town and Parish would be promoted by this 
course, consequently your committee have nothing further to communi- 
cate on the subject of their appointment. 

( in behalf of the committee, 

S. PllII.KKK'K, 

Brookline, April 1st. 1844. Chairman. 

Voted, That the Second article in the warrant be indefi- 
nitely postponed. 

Voted, That discretionary power he given to the Building 
and consulting committee to build the Town Hall by contract, 
or day labor. 

The above vote was passed in consequence of the following 
communication : 

The building committee for the Town Hail respectfully represent. 
That it appears to be the prevailing opinion of the consulting committee 
that the interests of the Town would he promoted by having the building 
erected by contract, instead of day labor,- -and as it was the understand- 
ing at the time of the appointment of your committee, that day labor 
would be more satisfactory, your committee did not feel authorized to 
take the responsibility of putting out by contract the whole building, 
including materials and labor without a vote of the Town. Your com- 
mittee therefore request that a vote may l)e taken showing the opinion 
of the Town on that subject. 

<)n behalf of the committee. 

s. Philbrick, Chairman. 

BiiOOKLlNE, April 1. 1844. 

Voted, That the meeting be dissolved. 

Otis AVithington, Town Clerk. 
(Vote on Town Hall. 8 pages forward.) [See Page 134.] 

The adjourned annual meeting re-opened at Lyceum Hall 
April 1, 1844. 

Voted, To proceed to business. 

Capt. Isaac Cook was unanimously elected Assessor in 
place of A. W. Goddard, resigned. 

The following Report was read and accepted by Vote : 



130 BrooTdine Town Records. 

REPORT OF COM. ON MUSICK. 

The committee appointed at the annual meeting to ■whom was referecl 
the subject of '• introducing Mustek" into the public schools, having given 
it some attention would now report. 

For the best information upon the subject that can be obtained, your 
committee have consulted several gentlemen, who have been connected 
with schools where musick has been introduced methodically as a pop- 
ular branch of Education, with complete success ; also by an examination 
of the "Abstracts of the Massachusetts School returns" where some very 
valuable information upon thai subject may be found, it is there highly 
recommended by the •• School Committee" of about thirty cities and towns 
within this commonwealth, in which are about six Hundred schools : the 
opinion as expressed by all. where the basis upon which the opinion is 
formed is experience, has universaly been the same : That Musick, 
wherever it has been introduced into the public schools, has been produc- 
tive of the most happy results; that it exerts a beneficial influence upon 
the intellect, taste, morals, & physical constitution of the young; 
improves the hearts, promotes good feelings, pure tastes, refined senti- 
ments, cheerfulness & good order; "Softens the temper, sweetens the 
disposition, and tunes the heart in unison with all the better feelings of 
their nature ; creates domestic happiness in the family circle, and pro- 
duces a concord of feeling in school." It is found by experience to be a 
valuable assistant to the reader, " it being a good exercise in the elements 
of harmonious and correct speach" and it has universally proved a source 
of pleasure to the pupils: it relieves the monotony of school exercises, 
and as a recreation it is both pleasant and profitable ; Avhere the minds of 
children become weary and dull, it has a tendency to restore their jaded 
energies, and send them back with invigorated powers to other more 
laborious duties; It also renders the schoolroom a pleasant place of 
resort to the young, who go there with minds more willing and in a more 
suitable state to receive instructions. Its introduction has proved by 
experience to be of inestimable advantage to the pupils, without being 
attended with any disadvantages. Such are the results of " introducing 
instructions in vocal Musick into the public schools" as proved by the 
united testimony of all whose experience or knowledg of the subject 
qualifies them to give a correct opinion. 

Your Committee, after obtaining all necessary information, and a 
mature and careful examination of the whole subject, are unanimously 
of opiuiou, that the schools in this town would be very materialy bene- 
fitted by the introduction of Musick as a branch of Education, and would 
therefore recommend that the school committee be authorized to employ 
a teacher who is competent to give scientific instruction in Musick in the 
High School, for one year — at such times and in such manner as they 
may deem expedient. Several professional teachers have been consulted 
by the committee and the expense of two lessons a week of one hour 
each for one year will not exceed two hundred dollars. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 
Artemas Newell, 
David Coolidge, \- Committet 

BnooKLiNE, March 28, 1814. Harrison Fay, 



Meeting, April 1, 1844. 131 

The Trustees of the Boookline School Fund who were appointed by 
the town to invest and to take the general care of the School Funds, and 
report to the town the condition of the funds annually, would now 
present the following report : 

The present amount of the School Fund is $4531.01. 

It has been invested by loaning to sundry persons, secured agreeably 
to instructions from the town in all cases by mortgage on Heal Estate, 
and farther secured in niosl cases by the policy upon the buildings of 
insurance, made payable in case of loss to the Mortgagee, as follows, 
Viz. : 

Loaned to Theopolis Dame, secured by a Mortgage on Heal 

Estate in Brighton, with insurance policy . . . $435 84 

Loaned to Edward Hall, secured by a Mortgage of Real 

Estate in Brookline. with the Policy of Insurance . 204 53 

To Lenas & Luther Crane, secured by a Mortgage of Real 

Estate at Newton Lower Falls, with policy of insurance 122~> 00 

To Reuben Hunting, secured by a Mortgage on Real Estate 

in Brighton 1">.30 00 

To Samuel Browne, secured by a mortgage on Real Estate 

in Boston, with policy of Insurance .... 811 11 

There has been paid into the Treasury the principle of our 

note, which has not been invested, amounting to . . 304 53 

which is still in the treasury. 

Making the whole fund, as above $-1531 01 

Your Trustees would express their satisfaction with the security 
which is held for the amount of the fund loaned, and also with the 
promptitude with which the interest has in all cases been paid. 

The Trustees in the farther pursurance of their duty have investigated 
the books of the treasurer and find the amount received during the past 
year, as income from the School Fund, to be $291.79, which has been 
paid into the Treasury of the town by order of the Selectmen, which 
balances the books of the Treasurer of the School Fund up to this date. 

February 1st, 1844. 

In the farther consideration of the subject of the School Fund, your 
trustees have been led to examine more particularly into the state of the 
fund by a vote of the town, at the town meeting held in January, author- 
izing the treasurer of the school fund to collect and pay over to the 
building committee of the Town House that portion of the fund that was 
received from the General Government as Surplus Revenue, amounting 
to about one half of the whole fund. It is the opinion of the Trustees 
that the same disposition of the remainder of said fund would be for the 
interest of the town, and if it is necessary that a certain sum should be 
kept as a school Fund, in order to avoid any danger from reversion, the 
town may become the borrowers and be responsible to the trustees in 
the same manner as individuals at present do, such a provision would 
place the security of the school Fund beyond a question, and relieve the 
trustees from a great share of the perplexing duty incumbent upon them 
of attending annually to the numerous policies of insurance and other 



132 Brookline Town Records. 

securities held for the fund; at the same time it would render it unnec- 
essary for the town to borrow so large a sum of money at this time, as 
it would give the town immediate control of its own resources. 

Prompted by these considerations, your trustees would therefore 
recommend that the Treasurer of the school fund be directed to collect 
the nionv loaned as soon as practicable, without serious inconvenience to 
the parties owing the money, either by a transfer of the securities 
held, or by collections as circumstances may require, and pay the same 
into the Treasury of the Town to meet the expenses of building the 
town house. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 
Daniel Sanderson, 
James Robinson, 



Trustees of 
Brookline School Ft(nd. 



Voted, That the report be accepted, and adopted. 

REPORT. 

Your selectmen would submit the following report agreeable to the 
duty assigned them by the Revised Statutes Chapter 25th Section 29th 
that there are now erected at every necessary place within the town 
suitable guide posts with boards annexed agreeable to the requirement 
of the law and that in our opinion it is not needful to erect or maintain 
any more. 

Daniel Sanderson, Chairman. 

They would also report that they have not been inattentive to the duty 
assigned them by the Town relative to obtaining a place for the better 
accommodation of the poor, but no place during the past year has been 
ottered for sale, on such conditions as we should feel ourselves justified 
in recommending to the town to purchase, but we would recommend the 
continuance of such a committee as shall have an eye to this subject since 
by having a part of Roxbury annexed Ave have had two added to our list. 

11 entire Daniel Sanderson, Chairman. 

2 in part. 

Reports of Selectmen accepted by Vote. 
Moved by Augustus Aspinwall Seconded by Samuel A. 
Walker That the Vote passed 25th March authorizing the 
Selectmen to fill up the Brook on Washington Street be 
reconsidered. 

Voted in the Negative. 

Voted, That this meeting be dissolved. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



Meeting, April 29, 1844. 133 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 
To HJlisha Stone, one of the Constables of the Town of 

Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in Elections, to bring in to the 
Selectmen, at the Centre School house in said town on Mon- 
day the twenty-ninth day of April current at Two O'clock 
in the afternoon, their votes for Three County Commissioners 
<£ One special Commissioner to complete the number 
required for County of Norfolk. 

Hereof fail not & make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place 
above mentioned. 
Given under our hands and seals this Eighteenth day of 

April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred 

and forty-four. 

Daniel Sanderson 



Selectmen 
David Coolidge, > , D 77 . 
rr, n V of Brookline. 

Thomas Griggs, ) J 



Norfolk, ss. Brooklike, April 27, 1844. 

By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the within named 
persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within men- 
tioned. 

Ki.isii.v Stone, Constable "/Brookline. 

A meeting was held agreeably to the foregoing Warrant, 
and the following Votes were given in : 

For County Commissioners. Whole No. 24. 

For Samuel P. Loud of Dorchester twenty-four. 
" Joseph Howes of Walpole twenty-four. 
•■ James C. Doane of Cohasset twenty-three. 
" Nathan Jones One. 

For Special Commissioner. Whole No. twenty-four. 

For Benjamin P. Williams of Roxbury twenty-three. 
" Leonard Everett of Canton One. 

Adjourned without day. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk, 



134 BrooMine Town Records. 

At the adjourned Special March Meeting held April 1, 
1844, at Lyceum Hall, The following Vote was passed : 

(Omitted in the records of that meeting.) [See page 129.] 

Voted, That the building Committee be authorized to 
erect a building for the Town Hall two Stories high, and 
that the Hall be finished in the upper story, leaving the 
lower story for any use the Town may hereafter direct, 
making, however, such partitions as windows and doors as 
may be necessary for school rooms, if the Town should 
hereafter at any time decide so to use it. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

In the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Four. 

An Act to Annex a tart of the Town of Roxbury to the 

Town* of Brooki.ine. 

Be it enacted by /hi- Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
assembled, <ni<i by tin authority of the same, as follows: 

Section 1. Jeremiah Lyon, with all the other persons, their polls and 
estates, and all other lands lying within a line beginning in the centre of 
Muddy Brook, at the junction thereof with another brook running 
between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam road, and at a post 
there set, and running southerly and Avesterly by the centre of said 
Muddy Brook through the estate of Henry S. Ward, thence following 
the centre of said brook through the land of Samuel Wyman until it 
meets a stone wall dividing said Wyman's land from the land of Joseph 
Curtis, thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction 
until it meets the present line of division between Roxbury and Brook- 
line, as laid down on a plan by E. F. Woodward. Esq., Surveyor, dated 
the eight day of February, eighteen hundred forty-one. are hereby set 
off from the town of Roxbury and annexed to the town of Brookline. in 
the County of Norfolk. 

Sectiox 2. The land hereby set off from Koxbury to Brookline, and 
the persons residing thereon, shall be liable and holden to pay their just 
proportion of all taxes which have been assessed on the inhabitants of 
the said town of Roxbury, previous to the passing of this act, and also 
their portion of all county and state taxes that may be assessed upon 
said town of Roxbury previous to the taking of the next State valuation ; 
said proportion to be ascertained and determined by the town valuation 
of said Roxbury ; and the town of Brookline shall be liable for the 
support of all persons who now do or hereafter may stand in need of 



Militia List, 1844. 



135 



relief as paupers, whose settlement was gained or derived within the 
limits described in the tirst section of this act. 

House of Representatives, Feb'y 21st, 1844. 
Passed to be enacted. 

Sam'l II. W alley, Jr., Speaker. 

In Senate, Feb'ry 22, 1844. 
Passed to be enacted. 

Josj mi Quincy, Jr., President. 
February 24th, L844. 

Approved. 

Geo. N. Briggs. 
/ 

Feb. 26th, 1844. A true Copy. 
Attest : 

John G. Palfrey, Secretary of 

/In Commonwealth. 
A true Copy. z 

Attest: Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



The folio wino- list of 
Militia were returned. 

David S. Coolidge 
Martin Carey 
William Mullen 
Isaac Dearborn 
Lyman Morse 
Charles Morse 
Asher Taylor 
Geo. W. M. Pitman 
James Tilton 
Edward Burrow - 
John Smith 
Benj'n Owan 
Silvester Bryant 
Robert Moody 
Royal Woodward. Jr. 
Chas. D. Perry 
George Gibbs 
Thomas Severns 
John Gibbs 
George Stoddard 
Charles N. Ford 
Andrew Dearborn 
John Gustin 
Win. Webb 
William Hardy 
William Barnard 



persons liable to be enroled in the 
Whole No. 242. May 17th, 1844. 

1 >ernier 
Hawkey 

L. II. Howe 

Moses Wingate 
Eben'r C. Haskell 

Chase 
Joshua E. Termala 
Edward Hall. Jr. 
Aaron Libby 
Nath'iel Lyford 
Klisha Hall 
Ivory lJovv 
Bussed Baker 
John Kenrick 
W. M. Stephens 
Charles W. Tolman 
George Otis 
t Albert Mitchel 

Wm. G. Cole 
Joshua W. Blanchard 
Thomas Blanchard 
William J. Griggs 
< diver G. Pray 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Charles Howe 
James Bartlett 



136 



BrooJiline Town Records. 



Alfred Tufts 

Aaron S. Mcintosh 

A. H. Clapp 

Oliver Follett 

James Morse 

A. C. Small 
Norton 
Harrington 

George Griggs 

Elkanna Foss 

Josiah Evans 

Benj'n Fry 

Nath'l Fry 

Stephen Foss 

< lark L. Haynes 
Luther Tinkham 
Benj'n Perkins 
David Whitney 
Henry Whitney 

< diver Whyte, Jr. 
Geo. A. Brewer 
Charles Stewart 
Stephen Blanchard 
P. B. Lakeman 
James Gliddings 
Asel Love joy 
Francis Flander> 
Henry Bright 
John A. Bird 

A. S. Bird 
George Taplin 
Sam'l C. Clark 
Daniel Smith 
Moses Yarney 
Josiah H. Barker 

Gould 

Peasley 

Owdway 

Loring 
John C. Marston 
Samuel Barker 
John Shepard 
James O'Brine 
Elisha Clark 
William White 
John Berran 
Joseph Gutterson 
John W. Warren 
Charles Warren 



George F. Bartlett 
Wm. Andrews 
Charles Coolidge 
Timothy Corey. Jr. 
Eben'r Peed 
John Nason 
George Wait 
William Dearborn 
Geo. W. Stearns 
Charles Sleeper 
William A. Hayden 
William C. Cunningham 
Nathan It. Pierce 
Charles Peed 
Swain Clement 
Stephen Heath 
Jacob Foss 
Willard A. Humprey 
Moody Page 
Geo. W. Merrill 
Wm. P. Brewer 
Asa Stephens 
John Houlihan 
.lames Veasie 
Nath'l Runlett 
Sam'l F. Page 
Alfred Page 
Simon Warren 
Timothy W. Wellington 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Daniel Quimby 
E. During Mcintosh 
William Hutchinson 
Henry Young 
Asa Trowbridge 
Edward Baily 
Aaron D. Fairbanks 
Charles Smith 
William Dale 
Nathaniel Billings 
David F. Stephens 
David Stearns 
Stephen Stiles 
Joseph L. Whit i' 
Henry Weeks 
Amos Whittemore 
Charles Ferrin 
Russell Bean 
David Woodman 



Militia List, 1844. 



137 



John Rodgers 
James Foster 
Parker D. Wilson 
( reorge Cunmon 
George Craft 
( hauncy Woodward 
Thaxter Prouty 
Tli<>. Thousand 
George Rice 
Geo. W. Goldsmith 
John W. Bailey 
I ieorge Hancok 

< lharles Whitney 
Edward Pray 
licnj'n X. Jt'wett 
Isaac R. At wood 
U.S. Ward 
Joseph Hugh 
Luther Seaverns 
Marshall D. Glasier 
A. If. Lambert 
(ieorge Peck 

John Haynee 

< !has. 1'. Trowbridge 
John Dustin 
George Bell 

Henry W. ( larr 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Charles Pulsifer 
Thomas Pettingale 
Silas Durgan 
( diver Delino 
James Lambert 
Wm. Melcher 
Trial i Blaisdale 
Calvin Piper 
Charles White 
Elijah Hoyt 
Josiah Varney 
J. E. Edwards 
Jessee Parmer 

Dunn 
John C. Turner 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Charles Heath 
Thomas Britton 



Moses Tucker 
Erwick Joy 

Charles Hatch 
Charles Craft 
Thorn's N. Woodward 
Thadeus Townsend 
Geo. W. Goodnow 
David Barbie 
.lames Dennison 
William Kodgers 
Jno. W. Ballard 
William Cowin. Jr. 
John Lorey 
Alpheus Foss 
George A.spinwall 

Damon 

Richardson 

Hart 
George Fullock 
Joseph Wild 
Ephriam A. Ranny 

Avers 
A. Withington 
Geo. Patten 
Harrison Fay 
.lames Pierce 
Sawyer Houghton 
Hugh R. Kendall 
Joseph Furgerson 
Elijah Hersey 
Thomas Horn 
Amos A. Smith 
Nath'l Brackett 
James S. Amory 
Nath'l P>rackett 
Win. Springer 
Wm. W. Clement 
Stephen Perkins 
Wm. P. Lawrence 
A. W. Goddard 
Alvin Loker 
William Hyde 
Hiram P. Bean 
Simon W. Clifford 
Caleb Craft. Jr. 
Wilson .1. Welch 
Tlieophilus Dame 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



138 Brookline Town Records. 

June 27th, 1844. 
William C. Aspinwall, a person who has long been sup- 
ported by the Town, having had some four or five Hundred 
Dollars worth of property left to him, has this day presented 
to the Town the sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Dollars 
for the Town's use and benefit. 

Otis Withington, Toicn Clerk. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To JElislia Stone, one of the Constables of the toivn of 
Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts you 
are hereby directed & required to notify all the inhabitants 
of the town of Brookline qualified to Vote in Elections (by 
leaving a printed notice at the residence of each voter) to 
meet at Lyceum Hall in said town, on Monday the Eleventh 
day of November next, it being the second Monday in said 
Month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls will be opened — first to determine by vote 
whether the town will send a Representative to the next 
General Court ; Second to bring in their votes to the Select- 
men for Governor & Lieutenant-Governor of the Common- 
wealth, Three Senators for Norfolk County, for a Repre- 
sentative to Congress for the Eighth District, Electors of 
President & Vice-President of the United States, and for a 
Representative to the next General Court, if the town so 
determine, all the above named officers to be voted for on 
one ballot. 

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon to the selectmen at the time and place 
of meeting as aforesaid. 

Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-fifth day of 
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-four. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ^Selectmen 
David Coolidge, [l.s.] > of 
Thomas Griggs, [i"S.] ) Brookline. 



Meeting, November 11, 1844. 139 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, November 6th, L844. 

By this Virtue of the -within warrant I have notified & warned the 
within named persons to appear at the time & place for the purposes 
within mentioned. 

BushaStohe,/ < S w **2" < '•' 
( Brookline. 

A true Copy. 

Attesl : oris Withtngton, 

Toion Clerk. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline, in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for 
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, holden on the eleventh 
day of November, being the second Monday of said month, 
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
forty-four, for the purpose of giving in their votes for 
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of said Commonwealth, 
the whole number of persons who gave in their votes was 
ascertained as is directed in the Revised Statutes (Chapt. 
4, Sec. B.), by counting the whole number of separate 
ballots given in, and the whole number of ballots was Two 
hundred and forty-three. 

And the whole number of votes given in for Governor 
were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof 
made as by the Constitution is directed, and said votes 
were for the following persons : 

Viz: 

For Governor : 

George N. Briggs, one hundred and fifty-seven. 
George Bancroft, Eighty-five. 
Samuel E. Sewall, one. 

At the same meeting the following separate ballots were 
given in. 

Whole number Two hundred and forty-three. 

For ( John Reed, One hundred and fifty-seven. 
Lieutenant-^ Henry H. Childs, Eighty-five. 

Governor. ( William Jackson, One. 



140 - Broolcline Town Records. 

Senators from Norfolk County : 

Whole number Two hundred and forty-two. 
Benjamin F. Copeland of Roxbury, one hundred and fifty-six. 
Luther Metcalf of Medway, One hundred and fifty-six. 

Joseph Richards of Braintree, One hundred and fifty-six. 

Edgar R. Whitaker of Needham. Eighty-five. 

Henry Hobart of Foxboro. Eighty-five. 

Jesse Pierce of Stoughton, Eighty-five. 

Willis Fisher of Franklin, One. 

Martin Torrej' of Foxboro. one. 

John Gulliver of Roxbury, one. 

Representative/to Congress, District Xo. 8 : 
Whole number Two hundred and forty-four. 

John Quincy Adams of Quincy, one hundred and fifty-seven. 
Isaac H. Wright of Roxbury. Eighty-four. 

Appleton Howe of Weymouth, Three. 

Representative to General Court : 

Whole number Two hundred and forty-one. 
Thomas Kendall, one hundred and fifty-three. 
James Bartlett, Eighty-four. 

Charles Stearns. Jr., One. 

Daniel Sanderson, One. 

Mr. Horn, One. 

A. W. Goddard, One. 

Electors of President & Vice-President of United States : 
Electors at Large. Whole No. Two hundred & forty-five. 
Abbott Lawrence of Boston, one hundred & fifty-six. 

Lewis Strong of Northhampton, One hundred & fifty-six. 
Gayton P. Osgood of Andover, Eighty-five. 

Samuel C. Allen of Northfield. Eighty-five. 

Joel Hayden of Williamsburg, four. 

John G. Whittier of Amesbury, four. 

District Electors : 

150 Nathan Appleton of Boston, one hundred & fifty-six. 

No. l.-J 8."> Charles G. Greene of Boston, Eighty-five. 

3 Timothy Gilbert, Boston, Three. 

L56 John Perry Allen of Manchester, one hundred & fifty-six. 

No. 2. \ 85 Ebenezer H. Stacey of Gloucester, Eighty-five. 

3 Nathan D. Chase, Lynn, Three. 

L56 Homer Bartlett of Lowell, One hundred and fifty-six. 

No. 3. \ S5 Hiram Plummer of Haverhill, Eighty-five. 

3 Willard Brown, Lowell, Three. 

156 Abraham R. Thompson of Charlestown, One hundred & fifty- 
No. i. \ 85 Charles Thompson of Charlestown, Eighty-five. [six. 
3 John Fletcher, Acton, Three. 

15(i Charles Allen of Worcester. One hundred & fifty-six. 

No. 5.-| 85 J. S. 0. Knowlton of Worcester, Eighty-five. 

3 Phineas Crandall, Worcester, Three. 



Meeting, Xovember 11, 1844. 141 

156 William B. Calhoun of Springfield, One hun. & fifty-six. 

No. 6.-J *o H. G. Newcomb of Greenfield, Eighty-five. 

3 John Dickinson. Jr., Amherst, Three. 

156 Chauncy B. Rising of Worthington, one hundred & fifty-six. 

No. 7.' 85 Orin Sage of Blandford, Eighty-five. 

:'> Edward Laselle, Williamstown, Three. 

156 Elijah Yose of Dorchester, One hundred & fifty-six. 

No. 8. \ 85 Artemas Brown of Medway, Eighty-five. 

:: Jesse Wheaton, Dedham, Three. 

156 William Baylies of Wesl Bridgewater, One hundred and 
No. '.i. -' 85 Peter H. Pierce of Middleboro, Eighty-five. [fifty-six. 

."> Laban M. Wheaton. Norton, Three. 

156 Seth Crowell of Dennis, One hundred & fifty-six. 

No.10.-j 85 John M. Shaw of Nantucket, Eighty-five. 

.". Gilbert Richmond, New Bedford, Three. 

leafed, To close the Poll at 5 minutes past three o'clock. 
Attest: Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



BROOKLINE AND BRIGHTON LINK. 

We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Towns of Brookline and Brighton, 

being authorized as the law directs met on the 18th day of November, A. 
D. 1844, and proceeded to perambulate the Town lines between Brook- 
line ami Brighton as follows. Viz. : beginning at Smell Brook where it 
empties into Charles River thence by said brook to where it intersects 
the Western Avenue, thence to a stone Monument Marked BB by the 
edge of the swamp near the high land about thirty rods from the house 
occupied by Eeirs of Bela Greenwood, thence to a .stone Marked SIB set 
in the land belonging to David Morrison Dear the end of an old wall, 
thence to a Stone Monument marked BB on the Southerly Side of the 
great road, thence to a stone marked SIB set in the ground of Isaac Dear- 
born opposite the land of heirs of Jonathan Livermore ; thence to a Stone 
Monument marked BB on the great road at the corner of the late Jon'r 
Livermore's land, thence to a stone marked SIB set in the ground of 
Timothy Corey opposite Horace Pierce's land, thence to a stone marked 
BB set in the wall at the corner of James Dana and Timothy Corey's 
land, thence to a stone set in the wall marked BB on the Westerly Side 
of the road nearly opposite Joseph White's house — from thence to a 
Stone Monument set in the ground of John Kingsbury's meadow marked 
NBB which forms the corner bounds between Newton, Brookline and 
Brighton. 

Daniel Sanderson, "I Selectmen Zebina L. Raymond, i Selectmen 
Thomas Griggs, j of Brookline. Reuben Hunting, J of Brighton. 



Otis Withington, Tovm Clerk. 

A true copy. Attest : 



Otis Withtngton, Town Clerk. 



142 BrooTdine Town Records. 

We the Subscribers, in behalf of the Towns of Newton and Brookline 
hereby certify that on this 18th day of November, 1844, we have peram- 
bulated the lines between said towns and find the several bounds and 
Monuments as follows, Viz. : Beginning at Brookline we And, 1st, A 
Stone Monument marked II. B.N. near the westerly edge of Troublesome 
Swamp which markes the corner bounds between Roxbury, Newton and 
Brookline. 2d, Thence to a heap of Stones on a large rock in Caleb 
('rafts pasture marked N.B. 3d, Thence to a stone in the wall on the 
south side of the road near the Saw Mill Marked NB. 4th. Thence to a 
Stone Monument Marked NB in the highway opposite the last bound. 
5th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB by the land of T. Hyde. 6th, 
Thence to a Stone Monument Marked NB in Stake Meadow about 
twelve rods from the last mentioned bound which makes a corner. 7th, 
Thence to a Stone Marked NB on the corner of the wall near Stake 
Meadow. 8th, Thence to a Stone Marked NB in the wall by land of 
Capt. Clarks. Oth, Thence to a Stone Marked NB in a wall on the 
Northerly side of the road near the cellar where formerly stood the house 
of A. Hyde. 10th, Thence to a stone Monument Marked N.B. on the 
South side of Worcester Turnpike. 11th, Thence to a Stone marked N. 
B. in the wall on the west side of the road by land of Mr. Sheaf. 12th, 
Thence to an abutment stone at the corner of the wall marked NB in 
the land of Joseph Lee. 13th, Thence to a large rock marked N.B. in a 
swail. 14th, Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the end of an old wall. 
15th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the wall at the end of the old 
lane. 16th, Thence to a Stone Monument in John Kingsbury's meadow 
marked N.B.B. which forms the corner bounds between Newton, Brook- 
line, and Brighton, all of [which] bounds we have agreed to. 

Daniel Sanderson, "| . . . George Hyde, ) 4 . . 

Thomas Griggs, [^ntsfor Adolphus SmitHj \ Agents for 

m.sWiTHiNGTON, i Srookhne - Isaac Hagak, j Newton ' 

A true copy. Attest : Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 

ROXBURY AND BROOKLINE LINE. 

Be it remembered, that on the 15th day of October, 1844, We the Sub- 
scribers, being authorized as the Law directs, met and preceeded to 
perambulate the Boundary Line, between the Towns of Roxbury and 
Brookline, Viz. : Beginning at the point in the full Basin where the 
Bounds of Boston, Roxbury and Brookline meet, from thence continuing 
the Channel of Muddy River at the junction thereof with a Brook run- 
ning between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam Road and Post 
there set, and running Southerly & Westerly by the centre of said Muddy 
Brook, through the estate of Henry S.Ward, thence following the centre 
of said Brook through the Land of Samuel Wyman, until it meets a Stone 
Wall dividing said Wyman's Land from the Land of Joseph Curtiss, 
thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction until it 
meets the present line of division between Roxbury & Brookline. Thence 
to a large Stone marked RB lying in the Wall or fence between the lands 
of Thomas Lee and Joseph Curtis. From thence to a Stone Monument 
marked RB on Perkins street. Thence to a Stone set in the ground on 



Meeting, January 27, 1845. 143 

the !iill in Capt. Cook'-; land, from thence to a white < »ak Tree standing 
in the wall between the Land of Mrs. White and Joseph Goddard's Land 
Marked R.B. Thence by said wall to a Stone Monument marked R.B. 
standing in Land of B. Lincoln. Thence to a Monument marked R.B. at 
the corner of Alvin Loker's Lane. Thence to a Stone marked R.B. lying 
on the Wall on the East side of the end of Loker's Lane. From thence 
to a Stone marked R.B. lying on a large Rock in the Wall between the 
Land of Willard A. Humphry's and Land belonging to Charles Stearns, 
Jun. From thence to a Stone Monument marked R.B. at the corner of 
the Wall between the late William Baker & Mr. Woodward's. From 
thence to a large Stone marked R.B. in A. D. Weld's meadow. Thence 
to a rock marked R.B. and a heap of Stones in A. D. Weld's Pasture. 
Thence to a large Stone on the Rock in Land of Mr. Billings marked 
R.B. Thence to a White oak Tree marked R.B. standing in the Wall. 
Thence across the Swamp to its Westerly edge to a Stone Monument 
marked R.X.B. which forms the corner Bounds between Roxbury, New- 
ton and Brookline Line. All which Bounds we have agreed to and 
renewed, the day and year before mentioned. 

Joshua Seaver, | 

Nath'l s. Prentiss, - Agents for Moxbwy. 

Joseph W. Dudley, J 

Daniel Coolidge, 

Thomas GRIGGS, , , . n , ,. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., j Agents for Brookline. 



A true Copy. 



I »l 1- Wi l HTNG l"\. 

Attest: Otis Withtngton, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR JANUARY MEETING. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

To Elisha Stone, one of the Constable of the Toivn of 

Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of said town, 
qualified to vote in Elections, by leaving a printed notice at 
the residence of each voter, to meet at " Lyceum Hall" in 
said town, on Monday the Twenty-Seventh inst., at One 
O'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

Second. To act upon an Order of Notice from the General Court, upon 
the Petition of Sidney Willard & others, praying to be allowed the use of 
the •' Flats" lying on the westerly side of the Mill Dam. 



144 Brookline Town Records. 

Third. To Act upon an Order of Notice from the General Court upon 
the Petition of the •• Inhabitants of the City of Boston" having refer- 
ence to conveying water through the town of Brookline in Aqueducts, 
for the supply of the City. 

Fourth. To hear and Act upon the Petition of Charles Stearns, Jr., 
James Robinson & Benjamin 1'.. Davis, praying to be indemnified for tin- 
expense of defending an action, brought by Joshua W. Blanchard, to 
recover damages for having his name excluded from the list of Voters 
by the said petitioners while in the honest and faithful discharge of their 
duty as Selectmen in the year 1840 — And to "rant and appropriate money 
for the same if the town so determine. 

Fifth. To hear and Act upon the Petition of Joshua W. Blanchard 
praying to be indemnified for the expense attending the prosecution of 
his claim for damages for being deprived of a right to vote in the year 
1840. 

sixth. To sec if the town will make any alteration in the highway 
districts, and make a new apportionment of the appropriation for high- 
ways. 

Si ft nth. To determine in what manner the Maps of the town shall be 
disposed of when ready for delivery. 

Eighth. To re\ ise the Jury box. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of your doings with 
this warrant, at the time and place of meeting, as above. 

Given under our hands and seals this Twentieth day of Jan- 
uary, Eighteen hundred and forty-live. 



Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ) c 7 / 

David Coolidge, [l.s.1 > - D -,-,. 

rr, ^ Y A \ of Brookline. 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s.] ) J 



Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Jan. 25th, 1845. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place and for the purposes 
a\ it hin mentioned. 

Ei.isha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 

A true Copy. 

Attest : OTIS WlTHINGTON, Town Clerk. 



Asreeablv to the forep-oing warrant a meeting was held at 
Lyceum Hall, January 27th, 1845. Capt. Daniel Sander- 
son was chosen Moderator. 

An order of Notice from the General Court upon the 
Petition of Sidney Willard and others praying to be allowed 



Meeting, January 27, 1845. 145 

to use the "flats" lying on the Westerly side of the Mill 
Dam, was read. 

Voted that the same be laid on the table. 

An Order of Notice from the General Court upon the 
petition of the " Inhabitants of the City of Boston" having 
reference to conveying Water through the town of Brookline 
in Aqueducts for the supply of the Cit} r . 

Voted to lay it upon the table. 

The following Report was read and accepted by Vote : 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE <>\ SELECTMEN'S TASK. 

The Committee, Appointed in Nov., 1S42. to consider and report upon 
certain expenses incurred in the defence of a prosecution by J. W. Blanch- 
ard. of the former board of Selectmen for an official act in 1840, would 
now report. — That in consequence of a mw trial having been granted 
by the Supreme Court, the subject lias not been brought before your 
committee until tin- present winter. And considering that the said 
board of Selectmen had not vet presented to the Town any petition for 
indemnity, which seems to your committee a necessary preliminary to 
any action on the part of the Town upon the subject ; and considering 
also that a Large portion of the expenses of said defence has been incured 
since our appointment, your committee did not feel properly authorized 
to take the subject into consideration, and consequently declined entering 
upon it. We therefore requesl a discharge from our appointment. 

Brookline, Jan'y 27th. 1845. 

Samuel Philbbick, ) , , 

James Bartlett, ,-'-"»"""""■• 

The following Petition was read : 

PETITION <>F SELECTMEN. 
T<> thr Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline in Tun,, Meeting Assembled : 

Respectfully represent the subscribers : That in 1S40 they were duly 
chosen & faithfully served the Town in the capacity of Selectmen during 
that year, and that the responsibilities & labor of that station were 
greatly increased in that year by reason of the severely contested elec- 
tions which then took place. 

That Mr. Joshua W. Blanchard claimed the right to have his name 
placed upon the list of voters of the Town, & to vote at all the elections 
for Town, State, & United States Officers. And that his claims were 
strenuously opposed by a large number of the voters of said Town. 

And, that your petitioners were threatened with prosecution ou the one 
side if his claims were refused, & on the other side, if they were allowed. 
That we honestly & impartially endeavored to collect all the material fact - 
in the case; and that we might not do injustice to any, but strictly 
conform to the rules of law prescribed in such cases, we submitted all 
the facts, thus by us collected, to one of the most eminent Jurists in 
Boston, the Hon. Samuel Hubbard, now one of the Justices of the 
10 



146 Brookline Town Records. 

Supreme Judicial Court, for his opinion thereon — and that he advised 
your petitioners that said Blanchard was not then entitled to vote in said 
Brookline. And that relying upon the correctness of said opinion, we 
refused to enter said Blanchard's name upon the list of voters for that 
year. & also refused to receive his vote when offered. That said Blanch- 
ard thereafter brought his action against your petitioners for such 
refusal, And we were obliged to employ counsel learned in the law to 
aid us in making a defence against said suit. 

That on the first trial thereof the Jury did not agree upon a verdict, 
and a second trial Avas had, resulting in a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff, 
said Blanchard. That exceptions in points of law were taken to the 
rulings of the presiding Judge, which were deemed erroneous by our 
counsel, and were argued before the full Bench of the Supreme Court ; 
for the purpose of correcting the said errors, as well as to obtain the 
opinion of the full Bench of Judges of the Supreme Court in the case, 
that a Precedent might be established for all time to come, which was 
•considered to be of great importance both to our community and the 
public. But much to the surprise and regret of your petitioners a new 
trial was ordered by the Supreme Court by reason of the said ei'rors of 
the presiding Judge. That your petitioners were thus again compelled 
to suffer the perplexities of another trial, being the 3d Jury trial ; and 
the Jury on this trial returned a verdict in favor of said Blanchard, 
awarding him 150 dollars damages, for which a judgment was rendered, 
V.V also for costs of Court amounting to §S2S.60 — and in addition to said 
-urns, your petitioners have been obliged to expend a further sum of 
$578.16 in counsel fees, fees of Avitnesses & other necessary expenses 
attending said trials, making a total expenditure of $1056.76, exclusive 
of our oavu time and services & personal expenses which haA'e been to a 
very considerable amount, hut of which Ave have kept no account. And 
your petitioners would further sIioav, that they consider it reasonable, 
just and lawful that officers of the Town should be indemnified for all 
expenses incurred in consequence of an honest and faithful discharge of 
their official duty, — and that it is neither just, nor reasonable, )/<>)• equita- 
ble, that they should be personally held to respond from their own funds 
for any damages recovered against them ; or for expenses imposed upon 
them for acting officially according to their honest convictions of duty ; 
altho' they may err in judgment in regard to the legal rights of parties 
interested, — and still less reasonable is it, Avhen they take unusual pains 
to inform themselves, and act in conformity to the advice of counsel, 
eminent for ability & learning. 

Wherefore your petitioners pray that the said inhabitants of Brookline 
Avould grant them the payment from the Treasury of the Town of the 
above named sum of one thousand & fifty-six dollars & 76 cts., to reim- 
burse them for expenses necessarily incurred as aforesaid. 

And in duty bound will ever pray. 
Brooiceine, Jan'y 1st, 1845. Charles Steaiixs, Jr., 

James Robixsox, 
B. B. Davis. 

Voted, That the prayer of the petitioners be granted. 



Meeting, January 27, 1845. 147 

Joshua W. Blanchard presented the following petition, 
whereupon it was — 

Voted, That Samuel Goddard, George Babcock & D. R. 
Griggs be appointed to obtain the written opinion of able 
counsel upon the legality of granting the prayer of this 
petition, and also that of the former board of Selectmen, 
and make report to the annual meeting in March next. 

PETITION OF JOSHUA W. BLANCHARD. 
To the inhabitants of the Town of Brookline in the County of Norfolk & 
i 'ommonwealth of Massachusetts, Greeting : 

The petition of Joshua W. Blanchard of said Brookline respectfully 
represents that at the fall election of eighteen hundred and forty being 
qualified bylaw to vote at said election, he did present himself before 
Charles Stearns. Jr.. James Robinson and Benj'n B. Davis, then the 
acting Selectmen of said Town, expressing his desire to vote at said 
election, but that the said Selectmen did then & there refuse to let your 
petitioner vote, notwithstanding he ottered to -how said selectmen 
abundance of proof that he was a legal voter and entitled thereby to 
rote, and enough of good evidence to that effect to satisfy any reasonable 
man of hi- righl so to vote, and said Selectmen asserted and proclaimed 
then and there that your petitioner was not by law entitled to vote, and 
that in attempting to vote he was attempting to do an illegal & unlawful 
act. 

Whereby your petitioner was greatly injured in his good name, fame 
and reputation, and was compelled to assert and maintain his rights and 
reputation by commencing a suit at law against said Selectmen, and in 
commencing & prosecuting his said suit against said Selectmen, he was 
unnecessarily by said Select men put to a great deal of trouble and 
expense in employing counsel, in the taking of depositions, obtaining 
witnesses, and clivers other expenses & charges by reason of said Select- 
men continuing said suit from term to term & from one court to another 
until your petitioner recovered judgement against said Selectmen for 
§150 dollars damage and §303.80 cost, in all $453.80, which last named 
sum of $453.80 was all that was ever received or to be received of said 
Selectmen in said suit. 

Your petitioner further represents that he has paid out in prosecuting 
said suit for witnesses' Depositions and Court fees the said sum of 
$303.80, & that he has also paid B. F. Hallet, Esqr., for Attorny fees in 
said suit $263.05, & that he has also paid out in cash to witnesses & in 
going after witnesses in said suit, & which could not be taxed in the 
legal cost by the court, $111.00. Making in all the expenses $677.85; 
and making the balance of cost paid out by your petitioner in said suit, 
over and above the amount of receipts, of $224.05. 

Wherefore your petitioner prays that he may be indemnified and paid 

by said town the $224.05, the same being the amount of expenditures 

above the receipts in said suit. 

Joshua W. Blaxchard. 



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Brookline Town Records. 



Voted, That Marshal Stearns, Thomas Griggs, Samuel 
Philbrick, Royal Mcintosh, Daniel Sanderson, George W. 
Goldsmith, Thomas N. Woodward, John W. Warren, Hugh 
M. Sanborn, & Simon Warren be a Committee to take into 
consideration the subject of making any alteration in the 
highway districts and apportioning the money raised to the 
same, and report at March meeting. 

Voted, That the committee on the Town Map procure 
three hundred copies of the Map. 

Voted, That the Map be furnished to individuals for fifty 
cents each. 

The following persons were recommended by the Select- 
men for the Jury Box, and were adopted by Vote : 

When drawn. 
April 14th, 1845. Samuel Gocklard. 

Abijah W. Goddard. 
Samuel Philbrick. 



April 17, 
Mar. 1. 
September 7 '. 
Mar. 6th, 
Dec. 19th, 
Dec. 10, 
Mar. 6, 
Jan. 27, 
March 6th, 
March G, 
April G, 

Dec. 8th, 
March 10th, 
Jan. 30, 
Mar. 1, 
April 17, 
Feb. 3, 
April 14th, 
Dec. 6, 
Sept. G, 
Sept. 8th, 
April 14 th, 
October 13, 
Mar. 1, 

"Feb. 2, 
April 6, 
April 14th, 
March 10th, 



Marshal Stearns. 



Daniel Sanderson. 



1847. 

1847. 

1846. 

1843. 

1842. ) 

1846. J 

1843. Otis Withington. 

1845. Simon Warren. 

1843. James Robinson. 

icLp' Moses Withington. 

Isaac Dearborn. 

184.".. David S. Coolidge. 

1845. Charles Stearns, Jr. 

1847. John Kenrick. 
1847. Samuel Craft. 

1847. Thomas Griggs. 

1848. William J. Griggs. 
1845. Samuel A. Robinson. 
1847. James Bartlett. 
1847. Benj'n B. Davis. 
1845. Seth T. Thayer. 
1845. David R. Griggs. 

1845. John Heath. 
1N47. Oliver Whyte. 

Jesse Bird. 

1846. Samuel Clark. 
184G. Artemas Newell. 
1845. Clark L. Haynes. 
1845. Willard A. Humphrey. 



Adjourned Sine die. 



Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



Meeting, March 3, 1845. 149 



WARRANT FOR MARCH MEETING. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in Elections, by leaving a printed 
Notice at the residence of each voter, to meet at Lyceum 
Hall in said town, on Monday, the third day of March next, 
at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
polls will be opened for the following purposes, Viz. : 

1st. To chose a Moderator to preside at said Meeting. 

2d. To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

3d. To hear the reports of any Committees that are prepared to 
report, and act thereon. 

4th. To bring in their votes for County Treasure]'. 

5th. To bring in their votes for a Special Commissioner for the 
County of Norfolk, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of 
Benjamin P. Williams. Esqr. 

6th. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee who' were 
appointed to take into consideration the subject of purchasing a Poor 
House and Farm. 

7th. To see if the town will make an appropriation for a new Suction 
Hose, and for some other improvements upon the Fire Engine, and for a 
Bell for the Engine House, and also to make an appropriation to defray 
the current expenses of the Engine Company for the ensuing year. 

8th. To see if the town will appoint a Committee and empower them 
to take legal advice upon the subject of the Wood-lot which was con- 
veyed to the town in the year 1750 -for tin- use of the minister or min- 
isters" of said town, in order that the rights of the several Parishes in 
the town to the benefit of said lot and its proceeds may be permanently 
established. 

9th. To act upon the request of Nathaniel Pulsifer, in relation to 
levelling Boylston Street where it crosses •' Bradley's Hilt." 

10th. To see if the town will grant to the Harvard Congregational 
Society a lot in the Cemetary. 

11th. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be nec- 
essary to defray the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year. 



150 Bvookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of meeting as 
aforesaid. 
Given under our hands and seals this seventeenth day of 

February, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight 

Hundred and Forty-Five. 

Daniel Sanderson, [l.s.] ^ Selectmen 
David Coolidge, [l.s.] V , BroohUne 

Thomas Griggs, [l.s. J } J 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe, Feb. 28th, 1845. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified and warned the within 
named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within 
mentioned. Elisha Stone, Constahh:. 

A true Copy. 

Attest': Otis Withixgton, Town Clerk. 

The Annual meeting of the town was accordingly held at 
Lyceum Hall, March 3d, 1845. 

The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Pierce. 

After reading the foregoing warrant, Capt. Daniel Sander- 
son was unanimously chosen Moderator. 

Otis Withington was unanimously re-elected Town Clerk, 
and sworn by the Moderator. 

Voted, To choose three Selectmen. 

The following were chosen — 

{Daniel Sanderson, 51 Votes. 
Marshal Stearns, 50 " 
James Bartlett, G5 " 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 
The following were chosen — 

{Charles Stearns, Jr., 78 votes. 
Isaac Cook, 78 

Jesse Bird, 45 " 

Voted, That the Treasurer and Collector be united in one 
person. 

Treasurer ("Artemas Newell was 81 V. 

and \ 
Collector. I chosen to these offices 81 V. 

Voted, To choose three General School Committee. 



Meeting, March 3, 1845. 151 

The Report of the Gen. School Com. was read and 
accepted — see Report. 

Voted, That this report be printed, and a Copy furnished 
to every family in the town. 

The following gentlemen were re-elected — 

Genera] f Rev. John Pierce, D. D., 106 Votes, 

School 1 ■• Wm. H. Shadier, 106 
Committee. ( Samuel Philbrick, Esqr., 62 

The following were chosen as Prudential School Com- 
mittee : 

„ , .. , f Charles Stearns, Jr., North district. 

Prudential I .. , AI a . . , .., 

., ... - Hugh M. Sanborn, South " 

uomnuwee. [ Ca] ; eb Craft . South Wes1 district. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE OX HIGHWAY DISTRICTS. 

The committee appointed by the Inhabitants of Brookline to revisi fch< 
former division of the Town into highway districts, and also the appor- 
tionment of money to each division, having attended to that business, 
have concluded to propose for the adoption of the Town the following 
division and apportionment, Viz. : 

The First district, to include the whole of Harvard and School Streets. 
and that part of Cypress Street which lies between Washington and 
Boylston streets, to be called Harvard Street district, shall be entitled to 
receive of the moneys raised. 11 per ct. 

The Second district, to include the whole of Washington Street, and 
called Washington Street district, shall receive 18 per ct. 

The Third district to include the whole of Walnut street, and that part 
of Cypress St. which lies between Walnut & Boylston streets, to be 
called Walnut Street district, to have 7 per ct. 

The 4th district to include the whole of Warren & Cottage streets, and 
called Warren Street district, shall receive 11 per ct. 

The 5th district, to include the whole of Heath and Cross Streets, and 
called Heath Street district, shall receive 12 per ct. 

The 6th district, to include the whole of Clyde Street, and that part of 
Newton Street which lies between Clyde Street and Boxbury line, and 
called Clyde Street district, shall receive 6 per ct. 

The 7th district, to include that part of Newton Street which lies 
between Clyde Street and Newton line, and the whole of South Street. 
and called Newton Street district, to receive 10 per ct. 

The 8th district, to include that part of Boylston Street which lies 
between Brighton Street and Newton line, and called Boylston Street 
Western district, to receive 9 per ct. 

The 9th district, to include the whole of Brighton Street, and called 
Brighton Street district, to receive 4 per cent. 



152 Brookline Town Records. 

The 10th district, to include that part of Boylston Street which lies 
between Brighton & Washington Streets, and called Boylston Street 
Eastern district, to receive 12 per cent. 

Making a total of One hundred per cent. 

The prices heretofore charged by the several highway surveyors for 
labor on the roads having been attended with a variation of fifty per 
cent, your Committee deem it important that provision should be made 
requiring uniformity of charge throughout the Town, and to ett'ect this 
purpose they would recommend the adoption of the following resolution 
by the Town ■. 

Resolved, That from and after this time the several highway surveyors 
in this town may be allowed for labour performed on the road the fol- 
lowing prices, Viz. : For an able bodied man, One dollar & 25 cents per 
day. and the same price for a yoke of oxen and cart — and for a horse 
and cart. One dollar per clay — and that no higher charges be allowed by 
the Selectmen in their settlement of the surveyor's accounts. 

All which is submitted. 

For the commit Ice. 

Marshal Stearns, Chairman. 
Brookline, Feb., 1845. 

Voted, To accept the report and resolve. 
Voted, That not less than ten hours be considered a day's 
work on the road. 

Surveyors of Highways : 

1st. ( 'haiies Stearns. Jr., 

2d. James Bartlett, 

3d. Jesse Bird. 

4th. John W. Warren. 

5th. Thomas C. Quimby, 

6th. Alvin Loker, 

7th. Caleb Craft, Jr., 

8th. Simon Warren. 

9th. Daniel Sanderson. 

10. Hugh M. Sanborn, 









Per ct, 


Harvard 


Street 


district. 


11 


Washington " 


•• 


is 


Walnut 


" 


•• 


7 


Warren 


" 


" 


11 


Heath 


" 


" 


12 


Clyde 


■■ 


" 


G 


Newton 


" 


" 


10 


Boylston 


" 


Western dii 


strict. '.» 


Brighton 






4 


Brighton 




Eastern 


12 



.,. ... , i George Stoddard. 
I- ire \\ ards. c ,, ?,, r,i, 

\ Seth T. 1 haver. 

., ... i Caleb Clark. 

Fence Viewers. [ JohnGibbs . 

Pound Keeper, John Haulahan. 

. , , ,, , i Elisha Stone. 
< onstables. . ,, . ,, 

( A. L. Clapp. 



100 



Meeting, March 3, 1845. 153 

Voted, To choose ten Field drivers. 
The following were chosen : 

I Samuel A. Walker, 

William J. Griggs, 

James Robinson. 

Chirk L. Haynes. 
i Thomas C. Quimby, 
Field Drivers, -j George Stoddard, 

Charles Coolidge, 
Jerathmeel Davenport, 
Samuel Clark. 
Simon Warren. 

Voted, To choose three as committee on Town Ac'ts. 

The following were chosen : 

( Charles Wild, 
Com. on Town Accounts.-] Elijah Corey. 

| Abijah W. Goddard. 

Cemetery Corn's, report was read, accepted & adopted- 
See report. 

Voted, To choose three as Cemetery Com., by ballot. 
The following were chosen : 

{Jesse Bird, 
Bugh M. Sanborn, 
.1 tin it -^ Bartlett. 

There were Seventy-three Votes given in for County 
Treasurer, and John Bullard had Seventy-three. 

There were Fifty-seven Votes given in for Special Com- 
missioner, and were for the following : 

Special f Nathan Jones of Medway had afty-flve rotes. 
Commis- -I Artemas Newell of Brooklifte had one 

sioners. ( Daniel P. Jones of Medway had one 

Surveyors of f Jeremiah Lyon. 
Wood and Lumber, i. Elisha Stone. 

Voted not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer's report be defered untill 
an adjournment of this meeting. 

The following report of the Building Com. was read, 
accepted, and adopted by Vote : 

BUILDING COM'S. REPORT. 

The Committee for building the Town Hall would now report, That 
since closing the contract with James Bartlett for a lot of land, they 
have caused the removal of a sufficient quantity of gravel from the bank 



154 



Brooldine Town Records. 



to give room for the building and cellar free of charge to the town, 
and have contracted with Mr. Grenville Fuller of Brighton to provide 
materials, erect and complete a building 70 ft. by 38 ft., with projecting 
pilastors in front, a basement story to contain three rooms, with a hall 
and Committee room in the 2d story. The cellar wall is now laid, and 
the contractor has given bonds to complete the building to the satis- 
faction of your committee by the 1st of Sept. next. 

The expense of building an Engine house seperate from the hall build- 
ing having exceeded the estimated amount, and the dimension of the 
hall having been enlarged by the addition of a gallery over the entry, 
there Mill be some deficiency in the ami, of money granted by the Town 
for the completion of the building, as will he shown by the following 
statement : 



l'aid .lames Bartlett for land, as per vote of the Town 
Cost of Engine house & land, as per Selectmen acct. 

Paid Architects for drawings 

A nit:, of contract with G. Fuller for completing the building 

Making a total for both lots & both buildings of 

The grants made by the Town for the above purposes at 
their meetings in Jan. >.<: March. 1844, amt. to 

Leaving a deficiency for completing the contract, made by 
your com. of 



it;',;. 


82 


765 


50 


104 


:.o 


5245 


()0 


705O 


!)1 


6509 


:.i 



$541 37 



There will also be needed, if the Town should think it proper to make 
some improvements in front of the building, a further grant, estimated 

as follows : 

For raising fronl wall $100 

For covering the wall with hammered stone cap'g . . 250 

For 4 hammered stone posts at carriage entrances . . 50 

For s hammered stone steps at centre entrance . . . 120 

For setting posts. Laying steps, levelling, gravel & loam, pur- 
chasing >.<. setting trees. &c., &C. ..... 23S 63 



Which items, when added to the above deficiency make a 
total amt. wanted beyond the grants already made, of 

By a vote of the Town in .March last, the school fund was 

appropiated towards building the Hall, which amounted to 

And there was assessed in the taxes of last year for this 

purpose .......... 

Makings total amount already provided .... 
Which leaves a balance to be provided, if these improve- 
ments should be made, of ...... 



758 63 



.$1300 0O 



si coo 



500 



5100 



$2709 54 



Your committee would therefore recommend that a further grant of 
1300 dolls, be now made for the purposes above enumerated; — and that 
the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow, when needed to meet the 
contracts of your committee, the sum of two thousand dollars, payable 



Meeting, March 3, 1845. 155 

at tin- pleasure of the Town: and that the balance of 7o!>.;,t he assessed 
in the taxes of the Town the present year. 
All which is submitted. 

For the Building Committee, 
Brookline, 3d March, 1845. S. Philbrh k 

Chairman. 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE OS MAP OF TOWN. 

The committee who were appointed to cause a survey of the town to 
be made and a Map of the same to be published, have attended to that 
duty and would now report. The committee, after making the necessary 
enquiry, and after consulting and by advise <>( the Selectmen, made an 
arrangement with Dea. Elijah F. Woodward of Newton, to complete the 
survey and make a drawing ready for the bands of the engraver, which 
was done at an expense (including the pay of hi- assistants) of ninety- 
five dollars 95 00 

There was paid to the sub-committee for taking the census, 

ten dollars . . 10 00 

Making the cost of the surveys drawing ready for the en- 

graver . . L05 00 

An agreement was made with Messrs. Morse ,v Tuttle of 
Boston to make a copper-plate engraving, to supply the 
plate and do the work in the lust manner, the town to 
have the plate when completed, which will be within 
the present week, for two hundred 

Tlie cost of a ream of paper for the map .... 

Striking off 350 copies, at a cost of labor & ink, 10 cts. each 

Messrs. Allen & Co.'s bill for printing & binding 300 Cooks 
containing the surveyor's notes of distances, &c. . 

All of which survey, taking census, copper-plate engraving, 
350 Maps of the town, and 300 books of notes, dis- 
tances, &c., cost the sum of 

Or just one dollar & six cents each map. 

There has been paid from the Treasury for survey, &C. 

Leaving bills unpaid amounting to ..... $266 <") 

Which due to Messrs. Morse & Tuttle, Allen & Co., X: printer's bill & 
for paper, for which sum the committee ask for an appropriation. 

The Maps will be ready for delivery within this month, in all proba- 
bility. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 
A. Newell, 1 
Brookline, March 3d, 1845 Jesse Bird, > Committee. 

Charles Wild, J 

The above named transaction by the committee in relation to a survey 
and Map of the town, were in accordance with the advice and consent of 
the Selectmen, and hereby receive our approval. 

Daniel Sanderson,"] Selectmen 
Brookmnk. March 3d, 1845. David Coolidge, V of 

Thomas Griggs, ) Brookline. 

Accepted and adopted by Vote. 



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156 Brookline Town Records. 

Census of Brookline taken Oct. 7th, 1844, By order of 
the Selectmen : 

Whole number of Inhabitants, 1682. 

Viz. : . . Males 852 
Females, 830 



1682 



Adjourned to Monday, March 10th, 1845, at Lyceum 
Hall, at 2 o'clock r. m. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 



TOWN CLERK'S WARRANT TO TAKE THE OATH. 

[l.s.] To JEHsha Stone, one of the Constables of the r lown 
of Brookline, Greeting : 

The following is a list of those persons who were this day 
chosen into office, at a meeting of the inhabitants of said 
town, and of whom an oath is by law required, Viz. : Daniel 
Sanderson and James Bartlett as Selectmen and surveyors of 
highways, Marshal Stearns as Selectman, Charles Stearns 
Jr. and Jesse Bird as Assessors & surveyors of highways, 
Isaac Cook as assessor, Artemas Newell as Treasurer and 
collector, John W. Warren, Alvin Loker, Caleb Craft, Jr., 
& Hugh M. Sanborn as surveyors of highways, Thomas C. 
Quimby and Simon Warren as surveyors of highways and 
Field drivers, Samuel A. Walker, William J. Griggs, James 
Robinson, George Stoddard, Charles Coolidge, Jerathmeel 
Davenport, and Samuel Clark, as Field Drivers, Caleb 
Clark and John Gibbs, as Fence Viewers, John Haulahan 
as Pound keeper ; Elisha Stone & A. H. Clapp as constables, 
Jeremiah Lyon and Elisha Stone as surveyors of Wood and 
Lumber. 

You are hereby required in the name of the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, within three days from the date 
hereof to notify and summon each of the said persons to 
appear before me within seven days from the date you shall 
give such notice, to take the Oath by law prescribed to the 
offices unto which they are respectively chosen. 



Meeting, March 3, 1845. 157 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant, with your 

doings thereon, within ten days from the date hereof. 

Given under my hand and seal this third day of March, 

A. D. 1845. 

Otis Withixgtox, Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookune, March 8th, 1845. 

By virtue of this warrant I have notified the within named persons a> 
within directed. 

Elisha Stone, 

Constable. 



Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 3d, 1845. 

Then personally appeared and took the Oath prescribed 

by law to the offices to which they had been respectively 

chosen, the following persons on the day of the date set 

against their names : 

1845. 
March 3d. Clark J.. Eaynes, as Field driver. 

8. Elisha Stone, as Constable and surveyor of Wood & 

Lumber. 
10. A. II. Clapp, a^ Constable. 

" Daniel Sanderson, as Selectman and Surveyor of high- 
ways. 
" James Bartlett, as Selectman and Surveyor of highways. 
" Marshall Stearns as Selectman. 
" Artemas Newell, as Treasurer and Collector. 
" Charles Stearns. Jr., :h Burvyor of highways. 
" Thomas C. Quimby, as surveyor of highways & Field 

driver. 
" Caleb Craft. Jr.. as surveyor of highways. 
" Samuel A. Walker, as Field driver. 
" James Robinson, as Field driver. 
" George Stoddard, as Field driver. 

Charles Smith, as Pound keeper. 

Hugh M. Sanborn, as surveyor of Highways. 

Jesse Bird, as assessor and surveyor of highways. 

Simon Warren, as surveyor of highways and Field driver. 

Isaac Cook, as Assessor. 

John W. Warren, as surveyor of highways. 

Alvin Loker, as surveyor of highways. 

Charles L. Haynes, as Fence Viewer. 

Charles Stearns, Jr.. a< Assessor. 

Caleb Clark, as Fence Viewer. 

Attest : Otis Withington, 

Totni Clerk. 





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May 


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158 BrooMine Town Records. 

An adjourned meeting from March 3d was held at Lyceum 
Hall March 10th, 1845.' 

Daniel Sanderson in the chair. 

Voted to proceed to business. 

Voted, by poling the house, 38 to 36, That the vote 
passed at our last meeting accepting & adopting the report 
of the Cemetery Committee, be now reconsidered. 

Voted, by poling the house, 42 to 36, That the whole 
subject of the report and its consideration be indefinitely 
postponed. 

The committee appointed to consult legal advice on the 
subject of indemnifying Charles Stearns, Jr., and others, 
presented their report as follows : 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SELECTMEN'S CASE. 
The Committee appointed by the Town of Brookline to ascertain 
■whether it has legal power to indemnify the Selectmen of said town for 
the expenses incurred by them in defending a suit at law instituted by 
Mr. Blanchard, and also whether it lias legal powers to indemnify said 
Blanchard for such expenses as he may have been at over and above the 
amount of damages received by him have consulted the most eminent 
Counsel in the premises, and herewith enclose his opinion. 

{Sam'l Gopdakp, 
Geo. Babcock, 
David R. Griggs. 

CASE. 

• • The selectmen of Brookline in their official capacity refused the 
insertion of a name on the list of voters in 1840; the person so refused 
commenced an action against them for damages in the Court of Common 
Pleas, but the Jury could not agree ; another trial was had which resulted 
in a verdict for the plaintiff, by advice of defendant's counsel exceptions 
were filed to the charge of the Judge on points of law; the case was 
then argued before a full bench of Judges before the Supreme Judicial 
Court Avho ordered a new trial and the result was a verdict in favour of 
the plaintiff awarding damages $150, the cost thrown upon the defendants 
witli other expenses amounting to upwards of a .$1000." 

Questions — Can the town legally grant money to indemnify the Select- 
men for the expenses of defending the Suit? 

Can the town legally grant money to indemnify the plaintiff for the 
expenses incurecl by him beyond the amount of damages received? 

OPINION OF JOHN PICKERING ON SELECTMEN'S CASE. 

I have considered the two questions proposed on behalf of the town of 
Brookline, in the case above stated ; and I am of opinion — 

1st. That the Town can legally grant money to indemnify the Select- 
men for the expenses of defending the suit in question ; and — 



Meeting, March 10, 1845. 159 

L'ndly. That the Town cannot legally grant money to indemnify the 
Plaintiff for the expenses incured by him beyond the amount of damages 
received, that is, beyond the amount of the verdict >.<. the legal costs, for 
which judgement was rendered & for which he may take out execution. 
As the questions raised in the case are of importance in relation to the 
practical administration of town affiairs, I have been requested to state 
the view I have taken of the sub j eel ; which I will now do. as fully as 
time will permit. The laws which authorize towns to raise money for 
public purposes are very general in their language; and it is not always 
an easy matter to determine what descriptions of expenses would he 
deemed to be within their legitimate intent. The present Statute, which 
is only a re-enactment of the former laws, authorizes towns •• to grant 
•• and vote such sums of money as they shall judge necessary for the fol- 

■ lowing purposes, that is to say, for t he support of town schools, for the 

■ support and maintainance of the poor: for burial grounds; and for all 
"other necessary charges arising within the same town." This last 
clause of the statute "all other necessary charges" it will be observed, 
is extremely broard. it was, doubtless, so framed, because of the 
extreme ditticulty of describing every case; and without the aid of 
decisions of the court it mighl be very difficult to prescribe limits to the 
authority which is apparently given to towns on this subject. 

A reference to some of the adjudged cases will enable us to arrive at 
a construction, sufficiently exact for the ordinary practical administration 
of what are commonly termed the •■ prudential affairs" of the town. 

The earliest case of importance and which has been a leading one, is 
that of Stetson v. Kempton & others: in 13th Massachusetts reports p. 
27l': decided in the year 1816, during the last war with Great Britain, in 
which the Court held, that towns could not. in time of war. raise monej 
to give additional wages to the Militia & for other purposes of defence, 
this being an expense which did not come within the description of the 
11 other necessary charges" intended by the law. The court in that case 
specify, to some extent, what kind of charges would come within the 
meaning of the law. In the case just cited the language of the late 
eminent chief Justice Parker in relation to this law is. in substance as 
follows, that the proper construction of the terms "necessary charges" 
must be. that, in addition to the money to lie raised for the poor, schools. 
&c, towns might raise such sums as should be necessary to meet the 
ordinary expenses of the year : such as the payment of their municipal 
officers — the support and defence of actions at law, the making and repair- 
ing of highways and town roads — the erection of public buildings for the 
accommodation of the inhabitants, such as town houses, market houses, 
&c, ; and then the learned Judge refers to some expenses which would 
not be legal; such as the building of a theatre, a circus, or any other 
place of mere amusement, the erection of a statue, a monument, &c, 
which are objects of taste and not of necessity. 

In conformity with the principles upon which this and other cases were 
decided, the court several years afterwards (1831) in the case of Parsons 
v. Inhabitants of Goshen (11th Pickering's Reports p. 39G) decided that 
a town had not authority to raise money to aid in making a road which 



160 Brookline Town Records. 

bylaw was to be made by the County ; & that a tax laid by the Town for 
such a road was illegal and void. 

On the other hand, in the ease of "Willard v. Inhabitants of Newbury- 
port (decided also in 1831), the Court held, that a town has full authority 
to provide for the support of a public clock ; and the town of Newbury- 
port was obliged to pay the Plaintiff (Mr. Willard) his bill for repairing 
the public clock ; the providing of such a clock being deemed a legal 
expense of the town, & the charge for repairs being incidental to it. 
But it is unnecessary to multiply cases ; the remarks of the court in 
those above cited sufficiently indicate the construction to be given to the 
laws in question. 

I have already observed that in the first of the above cases the court 
particularly mention the support and defence of act in us </t law as legitimate 
town charges. I may add that in a subsequent case (Bancroft vs. Inhab- 
itants of Lynfield, decided in 1836 ; 18 Pickering's lleport, p. 566) this 
charge again came under the notice of the Court, and was considered to 
be a legal one. 

In this last case the Court had before them a question of the same kind 
with one of those proposed by you ; that is the question of indemnifying 
town officers who had incurred expenses in defending an action at law ; 
and the Court decided, that a town is authorized to indemnify its officers 
against any liabilities they may incur in the bona fide discharge of their 
duty, " although it may turn out, on investigation, that the officers mistook 
their legal rights & authority." 

This case seems to be decisive of the question of indemnifying the 
officers of the town for the expenses of defending a suit at law. 

In regard to the second question, I am not aware of any adjudged case 
directly bearing upon it ; but the principles which govern it are well 
settled; and I will only remark that the plaintiff's damages, including his 
expenses, must have been passed upon by the Jury under the charge of 
the Court, & the verdict must be deemed to be the full amount of all 
claims which he could lawfully make for the alleged injury he had sus- 
tained by the acts of the Selectmen. These are the general views I have 
taken of the questions submitted by you, & the grounds upon which I 
have given you the answers to them. 

Boston, Feb. 26th, 1845. Jno. Pickering. 

Sam'l Goddard, 
Geo. Babcock, 
D. R. Griggs, Esquires. 

Voted, To lay said report on the Table. 

Voted, To take up said report for consideration. 

Voted, To accept said Report. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow on 
behalf of the Town the sum of $1056.76, reimbursable at the 
pleasure of the Town, & pay the same over to Charles 
Stearns, Jr., Benjm. B. Davis & James Robinson, the 



Meeting, March 10, 1845. 



161 



amount granted them at a former meeting as indemnity for 
expenses in defending a suit at law instituted b}^ Joshua W. 
Blanchard. 

Voted, That the monies authorized to be borrowed by the 
Treasurer at our last meeting & at the present meeting, 
"reimbursable at the pleasure of the town," be borrowed 
payable on demand, instead of "at the pleasure of the 
Town." 

The Town Treasurer made the following Report : 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 

treasurer's repokt of the receipts & expendit1 res of 
of BrookjLine for the year ending February, 1st. 

Balance on hand at the lasl report 

Cash Rec'd of William C. Aspinwall, it being a part of a 
Legacy rec'd from the estate of Thomas Aspinwall, and 
which he paid into the Treasury of the town to assist 
in his future maintainance ...... 

Rec'd of stale Treasurer for Support of state Paupers, 
School Eund & Military Bounty 

Taxes assessed for L844 6449 52 I 

less abatements by assessors . . . 219 42 J 

Received of Stephen S. C. Jones proceeds of Bay Scales to 
Feb. L, 1845 

Rec'd of the School Treasurer, being a part of the school 
Fund, principle & interest, paid into the Treasury of 
the Town .......... 

Making the available funds for the past year . 



There has been paid out of the Treasury 

For the Support of Paupers . 

For the Schools 

" Highways . . . . . 
•' Fire Engine . . . . 
" " Building- an Engine House 
" " towards the Town House 
" " Cemetery 

State, County & Needham Taxes 

Repairs of Bridges 

Repairs of Buildings .... 

Town Officers 

Assessing & Collecting Taxes . 

Incidental expenses, borrowed money 

Survey of the Town & census 

Guide & Street boards .... 

Amounting to .... 
Balance on hand 



iii i : n>' 

1845. 

$493 



93 



360 


n0 


83 


32 


6230 


10 


95 


99 



2826 63 



$10,089 


!»7 


$871 


84 


2050 


89 


11. -.2 


78 


262 


08 


765 


:>:> 


2135 


82 


18 


36 


586 


94 


273 


15 


26 


43 


238 


• 12 


226 


24 


673 


33 


105 




1 


50 



701 40 



Brookxine, Feb.. 1845. 
11 



$10,0S9 '.)', 
Respectfully submitted, 

A. Nf.'syell, Treasurer. 



162 Brookline Town Records. 

The auditing committee also reported as follows : 

The committee chosen in March, 18-14, to audit the accounts of Mr. 
Artemas Newell treasurer of the town of Brookline for the past finan- 
cial year hereby report that they have found as usual all his disburse- 
ments fully and exactly avouched, his books faithfully kept & correctly 
cast & all the concerns of his departments just as they should be. And 
as the basis of the next ensuing tax to be levied they would present to 
you the following Estimate: 

Estimated Expense of the town' foe the financial teab com- 
mencing February 1st. 1845. 

For Paupers S»00 

" Schools 2200 

•• Highways 1100 

• Engine & Company ........ 200 

-• Town House 705 

-' State & County Taxes 625 

-• Repairs of Buildings 100 

-• Town Officers 250 

•' Assessing & Coll. Taxes 250 

- Map of Town 270 

-■ Abatements of taxes 100 

i( Incidental Expenses ....... 100 

• Debts 1050 

7850 
Eioiii which may be deducted cash on hand . . . 700 

Income from hay scales 90 

From State Treasury 60 850 

850 
Necessary to be raised by tax . . . . . $7000 

Respectfully Submitted by 

Charles Wild, ~\ 

Elijah Cokey, > Committee. 

Marshal Stearns, j 

Voted, To accept the report of the Treasurer. 

Voted, To accept the report of the Auditing Committee 
and that the several sums enumerated in their report be 
granted and appropriated accordingly. 

The following report was read : 

REPORT ON POOR FARM. 
The committee appointed some two years since, to consider the expedi- 
ency of purchasing a Farm, on which to support the Poor, and to be on 
the lookout if any suitable one should be offered for sale, would Report, 
that they have not been unmindful of the duties assigned them, and that 
no suitable place until now, has presented itself. 



Meeting, March 10, 1845. 163 

The Farm is now for sale, formerly owned by Mr. Eben. Richards, 
containing about seventy acres, which your committee consider as suita- 
ble, for that purpose, as any place that can be obtained at present. As to 
the expediency of purchasing it your committee would state the condition 
of the poor and leave the town to decide. 

The number entirely supported by the town is 12. Viz. : 

William C. Aspinwall, aged about 40. boarded in Brookline 

at 4.7") per week, annual expense 247 00 

Widow Kenrick. aged about 70, supported in Brookline at 

1.40 per week 72 on 

George Thompson, aged about 70, boarded in Brookline at 

1.12$ per week 58 60 

Wife of George Thompson, aged about 60, boarded in Brook- 
line at 1.12$ 58 60 

Asa Cook Jackson, aged 10, boarded in Brookline at 75 cts. 

per week 39 00 

Eliza Thompson, aged about 26, boarded in Westborough at 

1.00 per week 52 00 

Harriet King, aged 27. boarded in Westborough at 1. 25 cents 

per week 67 00 

Amy Louisa Bedding, aged 20 months, boarded at Westbor- 
ough at ."><> cents per week 26 00 

Samuel Walcott. aged about 4.">. boarded at Worcester Insane 

Hospital at 2.25 per week L17 on 

Lewis Crehore & wife, aged about 50, boarded in Roxbury 

Alms House at 1.00 each week 102 00 

Calvin Shed, aged about 65, boarded in Roxbury Alms House 

at 1.00 per week 52 00 

Nine of the above named persons will undoubtedly have to be sup- 
ported by the Town while they live, at an annual expense of eight 
hundred dollars (besides clothing), and two children and several others 
which are assisted at present by the town. 

Your committee are aware, should an alius house be provided, the 
tendency would be to accumulate inmates from the foreign population, 
with which our country is flooded, and this class is daily coming within 
our borders. The recent enlargement of our teritory has added to our 
Pauper account $120, which is only about ten months' standing, and of 
course must be more this year. The increase of our population from so 
many sources indicates that such an establishment will soon be called 
for. Your committee, in view of all the circumstances, are of opiuion 
it would be a mark of wisdom to secure this or some other suitable 
place for the poor while such a place may be obtained, notwithstanding 
it might for a few of the first years cost more to support our Poor. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, 

Brooklixk, March 10th, 184.">. Daxiiu. Sanderson, 

Chairman. 

Voted, That the subject be indefinately postponed. 



164 BrooMine Town Records. 

Voted, To raise and appropriate one hundred and twenty- 
five dollars for the repairs of the Fire Engine. 

Voted, That Thomas Griggs, Samuel Craft & Abijah W. 
Goddard be a committee empowered to take legal advice 
upon the subject of the Wood-lot which was conveyed to 
the town in the year 1759 "for the use of the Minister or 
Ministers" of said town, in order that the rights of the 
several Parishes in the town to the benefit of said lot and its 
proceeds, may be permanently established. 

In regard to the request of Nath'l Pulsifer in relation to 
lowering the road where it crosses Bradley's hill, so-called — 

Voted, That as an improvement of the roads in any portion 
of the Town is always a public benefit, that the said Pulsifer 
with such as may associate with him be permitted to lower 
the road in the place he describes ; provided the expense of 
doing it be defrayed by subscription ; and provided, also, 
that it shall not be commenced till a sum not less than four 
hundred dollars, or more, be first subscribed for the purpose. 
And that the manner of effecting the object be under the 
direction & supervision of the Selectmen. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to furnish the 
Harvard Congregational Society, with a gratuitous deed of a 
burial lot among those lots now laid out in the public burial 
ground on the same condition as those furnished to the Con- 
gregational and Baptist Societies (in 1843 see page 83). 

Simon W. Clifford was chosen Prudential School Com. in 
the South West district in place of Caleb Craft, declined. 

Charles Smith was chosen Pound keeper in place of John 
Haulahan, declined. 

Clark L. Haynes was chosen Fence Viewer in place of 
John Gibbs, declined. 

Augustus Aspinwall and Caleb Clark on Cemetery Com- 
mittee in place of Hugh M. Sanborn and James Bartlett, 
excused. 

The following Report was read and accepted by vote : 

REPORT <>F SCHOOL FUND. 

The Trustees of the Brookjine School Fund in discharging the duty 
assigned them, most respectfully submit the follo-\ving report : 



Meeting, March 10, 1845. 165 

By Vote of the town at their last annual meeting, the Trustees were 
directed to collect the school Fund where practicable, and pay the same 
into the Treasury of the town, to be appropriated for the purpose of 
building a "town house." The amount of the school fund at that time 
which Avas loaned to sundry persons was #4531.01. 

By an investigation of the books of the School Treasurer we 
find the interest that has accumulated during the year 

to be 161 49 

Making the amt. of the fund & Int. to be accounted for . 4692 50 

Of which has been collected and paid into the School 
Treasury, agreeably to said vote of the Town, of the 

principle the sum of 2G65 60 

apd the Interest 161 49 

\jaking the whole amount of the collections . . . 82827 13 
Of vhich has been paid into the Treas. of the town . . 2826 63 

Am" for cancelling a Mortgage deed 50 

.Making the whole amt. collected as above . . . 82827 13 

Which being deducted from the whole Fund and Interest for the past 

car. leaves uncollected the sum of 1865.37, which has losfned as follows : 

To Theophilus Dame ' $435 84 

" Edward Hall 204 53 

" Messrs. Z. & L. Crane 1225 00 

Making as above 1865 37 

Which is secured by Mortgage of Heal Estate, with the policies of insur- 
ance upon the buildings made payable in case of loss to the Mortgagees. 
The Trustees would state that there is a prospect, that the balance of 
the School Fund will be paid into the Treasury in the course of the ensu- 
ing spring and Summer. 

Brookline, February. 1845. 

Charles Stearns, Jr. ~) 

A. W. Goddard, j Trustees of Brookline 

James Robinson, School Fund. 

Daniel Sanderson. 

Voted to adjourn without day. 

Attest : Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 

Annual Return of the Names of all Persons enrolled in the 
Militia, in the Town of Brookline for the year 1845 : 

The whole number enrolled being two hundred and 
twenty-seven. 

Otis AVithington, Town Cleric. 

John Butler Henry Brock 

Fernald H. Butler Ezra Putney 

David S. Coolidge Isaac Edgar 



166 



Brookline Town Records. 



Charles Coolidge 
Isaac Dearborn 
Nehemiah Day 
Josiah Blaisdale 
Morril S. Bean 
John Smith 
Charles Berwick 
Charles Whittemore 
Charles Ferrin 
J. E. Fernahl 
Israel Goodrich 
Charles D. Perry 
George Gibbs 
Edward Twitchell 
Henry Thompson 
Thomas Seaverns 
George Stoddard 
John Gustin 
Stephen Stiles 
Henry Fowler 
Lewis A. Smith 
Calvin Smith 
Joseph S. Bryant 
Moses Wentworth 
Benj'n Goodwin 
Lncins Lesslie 
Joseph Mannon 
Abraham S. Small 
Samuel Damon 
Charles Moseley 
Stillman Harrington 
Nathl Lyford 
George Willson 
Thomas Horn 
Oliver Delano 
Charles Sprague 
Charles Staples 
James Morse 
Paul Jones 
William K. Melcher 
Joseph Goodwin 

Horace ( 'ousens 
Oliver Consens 
Joseph Cousens 
George K. Fullock 
George Cartwright 
Timothy C. Leeds 
Ephraim V. Ranney 
Royal Woodward, Jr. 



Sylvester Kimball 
Calvin Carleton 
George Butters 
Elkanah Foss 
William Hardy 
John Mcintosh 
Joseph Huff 
Howard Perkins 
William J. Cook 
Luther Segrverns 
Nathani . Sawyer 
William J. Johnson 
Marshal L. Glazier 
Benj'n W. Hobert, Jan. 
Bobert Wise 
Stephen S. Robinson 
Francis B. Smilie 
George Melcher 
Elisha Hart 
Abraim H. Lambert 
William Sloane 
Henry Orcutt, Jr. 
George Peck 
( !harles P. Trowbridge 
Joseph Ferguson 
Charles Stewart 
A. H. Clapp 
Woodbury Jennison 
James Bartlett 
George T. Bartlett 
William Andrews 
Amos Whittemore 
John Piper 
James Parker 
F. H. Corey 
Charles Twist 

George Otis 

Alvin Perkins 

Erastus Harris 

(ieorge Noble 

Samuel Barker 

Columbus Marshal 

Albert Parks 

Amos Colburn 

George Patten 

Edward Secomb 

John I). Libby 

(ieorge Griggs 

Charles W. Scudder 



Militia List, 1845. 



167 



Joseph ( !lare 
Ivory Loss 
L. B. Dame 
Elisha M. Ross 
Charles W. Tolman 
John Kenrick 
Warren Barns 
Stephen Hymes 
David Kenrick 
William G. Cole 
Henry Poor 
Thomas Blanehard 
A. B. Allarcl 
William J. Griggs 
Oliver G! Pray 
James Foster 
Stephen Blanehard 
Benj'n II. Rhoades 
Henry W. Carr 
Azel Lovejoy 
Jeremiah Veazie 
Samuel Clark 
George S. dishing 
Christopher P. Shattuck 
Royal Mcintosh 2d 
Albert Johnston 
Oliver Lyford 
Edmund Pray 
Peleg Guilliver 
Ezekiel Page 
Arad Hatch 
David Whitney 
Simon Darmon 
Benj'n X. Jewett 
Thomas Pettingale 
George W. Steams 
( liarles Seaver 
Albert Woodsum 
Joseph Gutterson 
William A. Hayden 
Xath'l Runlett 
George Chalmers 
Thomas Abbott 
Willard A. Humphrey 
William P. Brewer 
Willard Brewer 
Russel Bean 
Samuel l'hilbrick 
Jacob Litchfield 



Hollis (Jerry 
John E. Turner 
William I. Bowditch 
Stephen Swett 
Elijah Hoyt 
Edwin Loomis 
James W. Loomis 
Joshua West 
Xath'l Fry 
Benj'n Fry 
Ephraim Hyde 
Stephen Boss 
Greeinvood Mosure 
George W. Washington 
X. G. Chap in 
John Blake 
John W. Webber 
Simon Warren 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Spencer II. White 
Charles Pulsifer 
Aaron D. Fairbanks 
('liarles Smith 
Edward Burrows 
Richard Black 
Varrey Mosure 
Luther Wentworth 
Elihn Stevens 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Thomas Britton 
John W. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Xath'l Bracketl 
( >badiah Saunders 
William Springer 
William W. Clement 
James Ward 
James Hudson 
Charles D. Head 
John C. Rodgers 
Samuel Snelling 
Henry Weeks 
Ivory Wales 
Parker Kennister 
Daniel Woodman 
Enoch Joy 
William Hyde 
Benj'n Blood 



1(38 Brookline Toicn Records. 

Eli D. Sanderson George Twombly 

Eben'r Reed James Donald 

Nath'l Reed Benj. S. Gordon 

Hiram Patterson Isaac Woodman 

John Harrington Samuel Townsend, Jr. 

Hiram R. Bean Sanford Robie 

Simon W. Clifford Thaxter Prouty 

George Craft George W. Goodnough 

Charles Craft Caleb Craft, Jun. 

Chauncy Woodward . David Burbee 

Joseph P. Jones Stephen Esty 

Noyes Furber Calvin Wilkins 
Warren Jones 227 



Roll of the Brookline Engine Company, No. 1, foe the year 1845-6. 

Augustus Allen, Henry Orcutt, Jr., Benjamin F. Baker, Moses Withing- 
ton, John Dustin, Thomas Home, Epraim Church, Charles Trowbridge, 
Oliver Cousens, Geo. R. Fullock, Aaron Emerson, Elijah C. Hoyt, John 
Murray, P. B. Lakeman, John C. Piper, Stephen Swett. Franklin Tukey, 
Ansel Waterman, Joshua A. Little, Edward A. Wild, Hugh M. Sanborn, 
Fredrick Stone, Joseph Ferguson, C. C. Mosley, Edward Hall, Joseph 
E. Cousens, L. B. Dame, J. D. Goodwin, Marshal Glazier, William B. 
Mitchell, W. K. Melcher, George Peck, Ivory Uoss. Charles W. Tolman, 
Joshua West, William II. Libby. 

We, the subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of 1 «,„_, o »■»,«,, 

I JIAaIKI. OAADr.l.x IN , 

Brookline, do herely approbate and appoint the 36 ! M URgH u gTE u;N8 

men above named to be engineinen for the ensii- I , „,,, n ,, 

I James B.vn i i.i. i r. 
suing year. J 

May 5th, 1845. Copy. Attest : 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



October 13th, 1845. 
The New Town Hall on Washington Street, standing end 
towards the street, 70 feet by 38 feet, with projecting pilas- 
ters in front, a basement story containing three rooms, with 
a Hall and committee room in the 2d story, was opened this 
evening with appropriate music, and an historical sketch of 
the town by Rev. John Pierce, D.D., minister of the first 
parish in this town. 

Otis "Withington, Town Clerk. 



Meeting, November 10, 1845. 169 



WARRANT FOR NOVEMBER MEETING. 
iL.s.j Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[L.S.J 

Norfolk, ss. 

To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to give at least seven days' notice to the 
inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in 
elections, lry leaving a printed notification at the residence 
of each and every voter, to meet at the Town Hall in said 
town, on Monday the 10th day of November next, it being 
the second Monday in said month, at one o'clock in the 
afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To determine by vote whether the town will send a representa- 
tive to the next General ( lourt. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
)fficers, Viz.: For Governor & Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 
wealth; For three Senators for the county of Norfolk ; and for a Repre- 
sentative to the next General Court, if the town determine to send one. 
The officers above named to he all voted for on one ballot. 

You are also directed to notify the qualified voters of said 

town to meet at said Town Hall on the said 10th day of 

November at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the 

following articles, viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 
Second. To determine for what purposes, and upon what terms the 
1 own Hall shall be let. 

Third. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees which 
may be prepared to report. 

Hereof fail not, & make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time & place of the meeting as 
aforesaid. 
Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-eight day of 

October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight 

Hundred and Forty-Five. 

Daniel Sanderson, } Selectmen 
James Bartlett, > of 
Marshal Stearns, ) Brookline. 



170 Brookline Town Records. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Nov. 7th, 1845. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within named 
persons to appear at the time and for the purposes within mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
A true Copy. 

Attest: Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for Gov- 
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor, holden on the tenth day of 
November, being the second Monday of said month, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, 
for the purpose of giving in their votes for Governor and 
Lieutenant-Governor of said Commonwealth, the whole num- 
ber of persons who gave in their votes was ascertained as is 
directed in the revised Statutes (Chapt. 4, Sec. 13,) In- 
counting the whole number of seperate ballots given in : and 
the whole number of ballots was one hundred and ninety. 

And the whole number of votes given in for Governor was 
sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made 
as by the constitution is directed ; and said votes were for 
the following persons, viz. : 

f George N. Briggs of Pittsfleld, Eighty-Six. 
For | Isaac Davis of Worcester. Forty-eight. 

Governor, j Henry Shaw Fifty-Four. 

[ Samuel E. Sewall of Roxbury, Two. 

I Whole number of ballots One hundred and Ninety. 
For I John Reed of Yarmouth, Eighty-Six. 

Lieutenant j George Savary of Bradford, Forty-Eight. 
Governor. | Charfes W. Moore, Fifty-four. 

[ John M. Brewster of Pittsfleld, Two. 

Whole number of ballots one hundred and ninety. 
Oliver Felt of Wrenthara, Eighty-six. 
James Maguire of Randolph, Eighty-six. 
Samuel Guild of Roxbury, Eighty-Six. 
Minot Thayer, Fifty-four. 
John C. Scammel, Fifty-four. 
Senators. - Ira Gill, Fifty-four. 

Artemas Brown of Medway, Forty-eight. 

Jesse Pierce of Stoughton. Forty-eight. 

Edgar K. Whitaker of Needham, Forty-eight. 
Willis Fisher of Franklin, Two. 
Martin Torry of Foxboro, Two. 
[ John Gulliver of Roxbury. Two. 



Meeting, November 10, 1845. 171 

Voted, That we send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

Voted, That the poll be closed at 4 o'clock precicely. 

The whole number of ballots given in for Representative 
was One hundred and Eighty-Six, necessary to a choice 94, 
and were for the following persons, viz. : 

T'.t Charles Stearns, Jr.. Seventy-Nine. 

55 Otis Withington, FiftjMive. 

47 James Bartlett, Forty-Seven. 

3 George Griggs, Three. 

1 Abijah W. Goddard, one. 

1 Daniel Sanderson. One. 
No choice. 

Voted, That this meeting be adjourned till to-morrow at 
three o'clock p. m. 

Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline, legally 
Avarned and assembled at the Town Hall, November 10th, 
1845, for the following purposes, viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

Second. To determine for what purposes, and upon what terms the 
Town Hall shall be let. 

Third. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees which 
may be prepared to report. 

Capt. Daniel Sanderson was chosen Moderator. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to open the 
Town Hall for all purposes of public good, on application of 
three legal voters of the Town, provided all expenses of 
opening the same be paid by those who apply — except when 
such expenses can be legally paid by the Town. 

The following report of the Building Committee was read, 
and accepted by Vote : 

BUILDING COMMITTEE REPORT. 

To the Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline in Town Meeting assembled: 

Your committee appointed in Jan., L844, and invested with power to 
purchase land of James Bartlett, situated on Washington Street, and 
to erect thereon a building for the accommodation of the Town, &c, 
are now prepared to present an abstract of their proceedings in the 
accomplishment of those arduous and responsible duties. 



172 JBrookline Toivn Records. 

Since the report made by your committee at our annual meeting in 
March last, they have by an assiduous perseverance in the duties assigned 
them, procured the completion of the building in all its apartments, 
together with the grounds and stone "wall in front of the building. 

They have also, with the advice and assistance of the Selectmen, pro- 
vided the requisite seats & other furniture for all the different apart" 
ments excepting two in the basement story which do not appear to be 
needed for immediate use. 

The building, including the projection of the Pilasters in front, is 
724 feet in length and 38£ ft. in width. The front apartment in the base- 
ment story is 16 by 14 feet, affording ample accommodations for the 
board of Selectmen. 

The other two apartments, having an entry way across the building 
between them, are 36£ by 234 feet each, & ten feet in height ; both are 
furnished with air pipes from the furnace in the cellar, with suitable 
registers and dampers. 

The Hall in the second story is 53 feet in length by 364 feet in width 
& 17 feet in heigth, having a Gallery extending across the building 16 
feet in depth, over the entry, and another apartment of the same climeir 
sions of the room beneath for the Selectmen. This apartment will afford 
convenient accommodations on all occasions of public lectures, and for 
the use of Town Committees. 

By the accounts of our chairman, which have been examined by the 
Town Auditors. & are herewith submitted, the entire cost of the build- 
ing, including the cellar and furnace with all its appurtenances, amounts 

to the sum of $5376 74 

The furniture, including 42 Settees, Tables, Lamps, Stoves, 

Chairs, carpeting. &c, cost 373 88 

The stone work and grounds in front of the building, to- 
gether with the expense of filling up with gravel around 
and in front, providing and sifting sand for all the mason 
work, levelling and turfing the bank, furnishing trees. 
&c, &c, cost . . . . . . . . . 606 70 

Making the total cost, exclusive of the land . . . .$6357 32 

Which contains no charge for the personal services and supervision of 
your committee. 

However large the amount thus expended may appear, it comes within 
the appropriations made for these purposes, and embraces an expendi- 
ture of $373.88 for furniture, which was not contemplated when the 
appropriations were made. 

The completion of the whole work in a faithful, economical and proper 
manner, required and has received the almost daily and unremitted atten- 
tion and personal supervision of one or more of your committee during 
a period, with only short intermissions, of about 18 months. 

Thoughout the performance of the whole mechanical work, a uniform, 
uninterrupted harmony and good understanding has subsisted between 
your committee and the contractors for the work ; and we consider it 
an act of justice due to the contractors, Mr. Granville Fuller and 
Mr. Xath'l Wentworth of Brighton, for us to make this public acknowl- 
edgement of our satisfaction with their faithfulness and fidelity. 



Meeting, November 24, 1845. 173 

Your committee have a further satisfaction in having obtained a com- 
modious and substantial building, constructed of good materials and 
"workmanship, and which they have reason to hope will prove satisfac- 
tory to the inhabitants. 

In thus submitting this abstract of their proceedings, your committee 
have only to request a discharge from their responsible appointment. 

Sam'i. Phtlbrick, 

BROOKLINE, in Nov.. 1845. l!l.r.\ STODDARD, 

Charles Stearns, Jr. 

Voted, unanimously, That the thanks of the Town be 
presented to Samuel Philbrick, Bela Stoddard and Charles 
Stearns, Jr., Esquires, the building Committee, for their 
faithful and very laborious services in superintending the 
erection and completion of the New Town House. 
Adjourned without day. 

Otis Withington, 

Town Clerk. 

An adjourned meeting for the choice of a Representative 
to the next General Court was held at the Town Hall, Nov. 
11th, 1845. 

Voted, That the Polls be now opened. 

Voted, unanimously, That the Polls be closed at 5 o'clock. 

The whole number of ballots given in were 165, neces- 
sary to a choice 83, & were for the following persons, viz • 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 73. 

Otis Withington, 50. 

James Bartlett, 37. 

George Griggs, :">. 

A. W. Goddard. 2. 

Adjourned Sine die. 

Attest : O. Withington, Town Clerk. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

;•] To Alexander H. Clapp, one of the Constables of the 

'"J town of Brookline, Greeting: 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 

are hereD}' directed to give at least Seven days' notice to 

the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote 



174 JBrookline Town Records. 

in elections, by leaving a printed notice at the residence of 
each and every voter, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, 
on Monday the twenty-fourth day of November current, it 
being the fourth Monday of said month, at two o'clock in 
the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be 
opened for the purpose of electing a Representative to the 
next General Court. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time & place of the meeting 
above notified. 

Given under our hands & seals this Fifteenth day of No- 
vember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight 
hundred & forty-five. 

Daniel Sanderson, } Selectmen 
Marshal Stearns, > of 
James Bartlett, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookune, Nov. 24rth, 1844. 

Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline to meet at the said time and place and for the purpose 
within mentioned. A. H. Clait, Constable of Brookline. 

A true Copy. Attest : Otis Withington, 

Town Cleric. 

A Meeting of the Inhabitants of Brookline for the choice 
of a Representative to the next General Court, held at the 
Town Hall, November 24th, 1845. 

Poll opened at 2 o'clock p. m. 

4 o'clock p. m. 

Voted, To close the poll immediately. 

The whole number of ballots given in were One hundred 
and Eighty-One, necessary to a choice Ninety-one, and were 
for the following persons, viz. : 

Charles Stearns, Jr., Eighty-One. 

Otis Withington, Fifty-One. 

James Bartlett, Forty-five. 
George Griggs, Two. 

Abijali "W. Goddard, One. 

There being no choice, on Motion of Deacon Joshua C. 

Clark— 

Voted, unanimously, To adjourn without day. 

Attest : Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



Meeting, January 30, 1846. 175 



WARRANT FOR SPECIAL MEETING. 

L.S.I 

[l.s.i Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

rL.s.j 

Norfolk, ss. > To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of the 
Brookllne. 5 town of Brookline, Greeting: 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, by 
leaving a printed notification at the residence of each and 
every voter, to meet at the Town Hall in said town on Fri- 
<\&y next, the thirtieth day of Jan. hist., at Two O'clock in 
the afternoon, to act upon the following articles, Viz. : 

1st, To choose a Moderator. 

2d. To act upon an order of Notice from the General Court upon the 
petition of George 15. Russell and others, citizens of Brookline, Boston, 
Boxbury, Needham, Dedham, Walpole, Medjield, Medway, Franklin, Bell- 
ingham, and Blackstone, praying to be incorporated for the purpose of 
making and maintaining a Rail Road from some convenient point in 
Boston, through Brookline, and all the above-named towns to Woon- 
socket Falls in Rhode Island. 

3d. To act upon an order of notice from the General Court upon the 
petition of David 1!. Griggs & others, proprietors of lands in the town of 
Roxbury, praying that certain lands lying between "Muddy Creek" and 
the westerly side of the Brookline branch of the Western Avenue may be 
set off from Roxbury and annexed to Brookline. 

4th. To act upon an order of notice from the General Court upon the 
petition of the Mayor of the City of Boston relative to the supplying the 
city with water from Long Pond. 

5th. To act upon an order of notice from the General Court upon the 
petition of Charles Crocker and others, in relation to supplying the City 
of Boston with pure soft water from Charles River by exclusion of tide 
waters by means of a dam across its mouth. 

6th. To see if the town will make an appropriation to defray the 
expense of printing the address delivered by the Rev. Dr. Pierce at the 
opening of the New Town Ball, that each family in the town may have a 
copy. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
3'our doings thereon, at the time and place as above named. 
Given under our hands and seals this twenty-seventh day of 
January, Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred & 
forty-six. 

Daniel Sanderson, ) Selectmen of 
Marshal Stearns, \ Brookline. 



176 Brookline Town Record*. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. i 

Brookline./ Januart 28th, 1846. Pursuant to the within -warrant 
to me directed, I have this day notified the inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, t by serving a printed copy thereof 
as Avithin directed), to meet at the time and place and for the purposes 
therein expressed. 

Elisha Stone, <'nnst<ii,ir. 
A true Copy. 

Attest: Otis Withington, To"-), Clerk. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant a meeting was held 
January 30th, 1846. Capt. Marshal Stearns was unani- 
mously chosen Moderator. 

Voted, That a committee of Nine Persons be chosen to 
present to the Legislature a Remonstrance against the grant- 
ing of the petition of George B. Russell and others for a 
Rail Road through Brookline, and that said Committee be 
authorized to employ council, at the expense of the town, to 
assist them at every stage of the business, in & out of the 
Legislature, to show the ruinous consequence the granting 
of said petition would be to this Town. 

The following were chosen by nomination from the chair: 

William I. Bowditch, 

Augustus Aspinwall, 

Samuel Phil brick, 

Moses Jones, 

Isaac Cook, J> Committee. 

George Griggs, 

Benjamin Goddard, 

Jesse Bird, 

Otis Withington, J 

Voted, on the order of notice from the Legislature on the 
petitition of David R. Griggs and others, — 

That we approve of said petition, and have no objection 
to its being granted. 

On motion of Deacon Griggs — 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by this 
Town to meet the Committee of the Legislature to whom 
has been referred the petition of the Mayor of the City of 



Meeting, February 11, 1846. 177 

Boston relative to supplying the city with water from Long 
Pond, and act in the case as their wisdom may direct as the 
circumstances may appear. 

The following were chosen as that committe : 

Thomas Griggs, 

Marshal Stearns, 

James Bartlett. 

1 'oted, On the Order of Notice from the Legislature on 
the petition of Charles Crocker and others, — 

That the subject be refered to the above committee. 

On motion of Deacon Robinson — 

Voted, unanimously. That one hundred dollars be appro- 
priated to defray the expense of printing the address 
delivered by the Rev. Dr. Pierce, at the opening of the New 
Town Hall, that each family in the town may have a copy. 

Voted, To adjourn without day. 

At lot : Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR SPECIAL MEETING. 



L.S. 



LS i Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

V s -J 

Norfolk, ss. } 

Brookline. 5' To Alexander H. Clapp, one of the Con- 
stables of the Town of Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the eleventh of 
February inst., at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the follow- 
ing purposes, viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To act upon an Order of Notice served upon the Town Clerk 
by Ebenezer ]). Ammidown and others (b} r order of the Legislature) , 
upon their petition to be incorporated for the purpose of making & 
maintaing a Rail Road from Boston through Brookline to Southbridge 
or Stnrbridge. 

12 



178 JBrookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place as above named. 
Given under our hands and seals this Sixth day of February, 

Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. 

Daniel Sanderson, ~) Selectmen 
Marshal Stearns, > of 
James Bartlett, ) JBrookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Town of Bkookline, Feb. 9, 1840. 

Pursuant to the ■within warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline herein described, to meet at said time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a notification at each and 
every house in said town. 

Alex. H. Clapp, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest: 0. WlTHlNGTON, Town Clerk. 

The meeting was opened by reading the foregoing warrant, 
when — 

Capt. Marshal Stearns was unanimously chosen Moderator. 

Voted, That the petition of Ebenezer D. Ammidown and 
others, for a Rail Road through this Town, be refered to 
the Committee having in charge the petition of George R. 
Russell and others ; and that said Committee is hereby direct- 
ed to resist in behalf of the Town the passage of this or any 
other Rail Road through the Town, which now is, or may 
hereafter be petitioned for during the present session of the 
Legislature. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : Otis Withington, Town Clerk. 



IL.S. 
[L.8. 
fL.S. 



WARRANT FOR MARCH MEETING. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. ^ 
Brookline. $ To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables 
of the town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the 



Meeting, March 2, 1846. 179 

Town Hall in said town on Monday the Second day of March 
next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls w r ill be opened for the following purposes, 
viz. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

2d. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. 

3d. To receive the reports of any Committees, or Town Officers, that 
are prepared to report, and act thereon. 

4th. To bring in their Votes for County Treasurer. 

5th. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- 
sary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year. 

6th. To bring in their Votes for Register of Deeds for the County of 
Norfolk. 

7th. To see if the town will make an appropriation for a Sign & a 
Bell for the Engine House. 

8th. To see if the town will cause a well to !><• dug i a pump supplied, 
for each school house in town where necessary. 

9th. To act upon the request of the government of the "Brookline 
Total Abstinence Society" respecting the -ale of Ardent Spirits in this 
town. 

10th. To act upon the request «>t' Mr. Iloyt and others, respecting 
Singing Un Bell, morning, noon, and evening — during the ensuing year, 
and to make an appropriation for the same, if the town deem it advisable. 

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon at the time and place as above named. 
Given under our hands & seals this Twent}' -Third day of 

February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 

forty-six. 

Daniel Sanderson, ) 07, 
Tvr o I selectmen 

Marshal Stearns, > ^ D 77 . 
T -r, V of Brookline. 

James Bartlett, ) J 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Feb. 26th, 1846. 

By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the within named per- 
sons to appear at the time and place within mentioned, by leaving a 
notice at the houses of the same. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
A true copy. 

Attest : Artemas Newell, Tnvn Clerk. 



180 BrooTdine Town Records. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 2, 1846. 

In conformity with the foregoing warrant the annual 
meeting was held at the Town Hall on the first Monday in 
March. 

The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, Mr. 
Otis Withington, and the meeting was organized by the 
choice of — 

Mr. Daniel Sanderson, Moderator. 

Prayers were offered by the Eev. John Pierce, D. D., 
after which the Town proceeded to organize by the choice of 
officers to serve for the ensuing year. 

Artemas Newell was elected Town Clerk, and was imme- 
diately qualified by taking the oath required by law, which 
was administered by the Moderator. 

The report of the Treasurer and Auditing Committee of 
Town Accounts was read by the Chairman on accounts, Dr. 
Charles Wild, and will be found recorded on the 187 page. 

Said report was accepted and ordered on file. 

The report of the School Committee was made by the 
Rev. William H. Shailer, and was unanimously accepted 
and will be found recorded on page 199. [See page 191.] 

It was then voted to proceed to the choice of three Select- 
men to serve the town the ensuing year. 

Proceeded to ballot for Selectmen, which resulted in the 
choice of — 

Marshal Stearns, James Bartlett and Hugh M. Sanborn 
for Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor. 

Voted, To choose Three Assessors. 

Re-elected Charles Stearns, Junr., Isaac Cook and Jesse 
Bird, for Assessors for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose a Treasurer and Collector. 

Re-elected Artemas Newell, and 

Voted, That the office of Treasurer & Collector be united 
in one person. 

Voted, That the School Committee consist of five for the 
ensuing year. 



Annual Meeting, March 2, 1846. 181 

Proceeded to ballot for School Committee, which resulted 
in the choice of — 

Kev. Doct. John Pierce. D. I'-- 

Rev. William H. Shailer, Samuel Philbrick, Esq., 

Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Jan., and 

William I. Bowditch, Esq. 

Prudential School Committee. By nomination— Chosen 
for — 

North School District. Charles Stearns, Jun. 
South Middle District, George W.Stearns. 
Southwest District, Simon W. Clifford. 

Proceeded to the choice of 10 Surveyors of highways— as 
follows : 

1. Charles Stearns, Junr., Harvard St. Dis. 

2. James Bartlett, Washington St. District. 
:;. Jesse Bird, Walnut Streel District. 

4. John W. Warren, Warren 

5. Royal Mcintosh, Heath 

6. * William .1. Hyde, Clyde 

(Geo. W. Goldsmith chosen. See Page L93.) 

7. Thomas X. Woodward. Newton Street 

s. Simon Warren. Boylston " Western District. 

9. William White. Brighton " District. 

10. Hugh M. Sanborn, Boylston Eastern 

Voted, To choose two Fire Wards. 

George Stoddard and Seth T. Thayer were re-elected 
Fire Wards. 

Voted, To choose two Fence Viewers. 

Caleb Clark and Mohn Gibbs were accordingly chosen. 

For Pound Keeper * Simon Warren was chosen. 

Constables : Elisha Stone & A. H. Clapp. 

Voted to choose 10 Field Drivers, as follows : 

< iliver White 

Abraham II. Lambert. *Samuel Clark. 
William J. Griggs, John Gibbs. 
Samuel A. Walker, George Griggs, 
*Samuel Philbrick. Charles Smith, and 
George Stoddard. 

The following gentlemen were re-elected as committee on 
Town Accounts: Dr. Charles Wild, Dea. Elijah Corey, 
and Mr. A. W. Goddard. 

* See page 193-4. 



182 Brookline Town Record*. 

Cemetery Committee re-elected, viz. : Jesse Bird, Augustus 
Aspinwall & Caleb Clark. 

Surveyors of Wood & lumber : Jeremiah Lyon and Elisha 
Stone. 

For County Treasurer : There were One Hundred and 
Two Votes Cast, viz. — John Billiard, Esq., of Dedham, 
received One Hundred & One, and Artemas Newell of Brook- 
line, One. 

For Register of Deeds : There were Ninety-Eight Votes 
cast. Enos Foord, Esq., of Dedham, received the whole 
number. 

On motion of Dea. Thomas Griggs a unanimous Vote of 
Thanks was passed to Mr. Daniel Sanderson, for his faith- 
ful services for several years past as one of the Selectmen of 
this town. 

The following preamble and vote, was offered by Dea. 
Thomas Griggs, and was unanimously adopted by the town : 

Whereas, At a meeting of this Town in November last, at the close 
of which, when many, if not most of our citizens had retired, the report 
of the building Committee, of this our beautiful Town Hall, was pre- 
sented, on examining- the same it appears, that your committee has made 
no charges for the arduous services rendered by them, in procuring, and 
preparing the site, maturing the plan, having a constant oversight of 
the house, during its progress, furnishing the same at its completion, 
and at last. Grading, Fencing and ornamenting, the beautiful plot in 
front. In view of so valuable services rendered by the Committee 
gratuitously, many of our citizens have- felt desirous of having an oppor- 
tunity; publicly, to express their gratitude. 

It is therefore moved that an unanimous Vote of Thank* be presented 
by this town to the said Committee, Samuel Philbrick as Chairman, Beta 
Stoddard and Charles Stearns, Junr., as Colleagues, for the untiring and 
faithful manner in which they have performed those duties which have 
devolved upon them in the election of this house and with which they 
have so cheerfully and generously presented this town. 



The following report, made by the Chairman Dea. Thomas 
Griggs, was accepted, To wit : 

The committee appointed at the March Meeting 1845, upon the subject 
of the Wood Lot which was conveyed to the Town in the year 1751), " for 
the use of the Minister or Ministers" of said town in order that the rights 
of the several Parishes in the Town to the benefit of said lot and its pro- 
ceeds may be permanently established, would report: 



Annua/ Meeting, March 2, 1846. 183 

That on examining the Town records it appears that in the year 1834, 
a committee of the town consisting of four persons, two from each 
Parish, were appointed to define the interests Of the town and the First 
Parish; said committee after having fully investigated all those interests 
with which the Town and First Parish were concerned and among others 
the Wood lot refered to above, which it appears by the original deeds 
was bought by the Town of Samuel White for the sum of forty Pounds 
in the year 1759, as expressed in the deed for the use of Brookline for a 
Wood lot to supply the Minister or Ministers that may be settled in said 
Town from time to time. 

It also appears that the above named Committee in view of all the facts 
and considerations presented before them did recommend to the Town to 
pass tiie following Vote, a- embracing all the measures which appear 
necessary or expedient to be taken in the premises. 

I'"/"/. That the town Treasurer be and lie is hereby authorized and 
directed to pay the interest of Daniel Colby's note as the same hereafter 
may become due and be received the one-half thereof to the treasurer of 
"the First Parish, and the oilier moiety to the Treasurer of the F.aptist 
Society, for the use of the respective Ministers thereof until the further 

order of the Town, as Trustees, bul further arrangements to he made as 
soon as may be to insure to the Ministers of said Societies respectively 
the income of the Wood Lot. and the Selectmen are requested to take 
measures accordingly. 

The above report was accepted and the vote passed. 

It further appears that in November. 1836, the Town did appoint 
the Selectmen a Committee to make sale of the Wood standing on said 
lot which Avas accordingly done. It also appears on tin records of the 
Town that, at the March Meeting in 1838 — It was voted that the proceeds 
of the Wood lot be equally divided between the two Parishes which was 
also done. It is the opinion of your presenl Committee that the result 
to which your former committee came, and which the town have s,» 
repeatedly confirmed was just and equitable, and would therefore recom- 
mend that the Selectmen lie authorized to make sale of the said wood 
land and divide the proceeds, one-third to each of the religious Societies 
now existing in Brookline to be paid over to their respective Treasurers. 

Signed : Thomas Griggs, 
Samuel Ckaft, 

a. w. goddakp. 

A True Copy of the Report. 

Attest: AKTEMAS NEWELL, 

7b/'-// ( 'lerk. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized 
and empowered, to sell and convey by quit claim deed at 
private sale, or at public auction, as they may judge best, 
the wood lot lying in Needham purchased by this town in the 
year 1759, of Samuel White "for the use of Brookline for 
a wood lot to supply the minister or ministers that may be 



184 BrooMine Toivn Records. 

settled in said town from time to time " and pay over the 
proceeds thereof, one-third part to the Treasurer of each of 
the religious Societies now existing in Brookline. 

REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE. 

The cemetery committee of the Town of Brookline respectfully ask 
leave to report. 

That they have effected sales of three lots for interments during 
the year. The three different Parishes have selected lots granted 
them by a former vote of the town, and the deeds are ready for delivery 
when the conditions of said grant shall have been complied with. The 
proceeds of said lots, together with balance in the Treasury, have enabled 
your committee to replace decayed trees with new ones, and to distribute 
others in such spots as required them, also to grade Cedar Avenue, 
placing granite steps at its commencement and to that of Larch Avenue. 
They have recorded all deeds heretofore given with the exception of 
two given for small lots in the old ground. Your committee would 
respectfully recommend the passage of a vote by the Town, to the effect 
that no lots shall be disposed of to non-residents, as applications have 
been made by strangers for the purchase of lots, which requests, in the 
opinion of your committee could not consistently be complied with, as 
there are but 23 lots now remaining unsold. By the returns of the 
Sexton, it appears, there have been twenty-seven deaths within the town 
during the year, of which number sixteen have been interred in our 
cemetery and three additional brought from other places. The Treasurer's 
account is as follows : 

Brookline Cemeterv in Account with Jesse Bird, Treas. 
1845. Dr. 

Mar. 29. To cash rec'd from former Treasurer . . . $96 08 

Aug. '.». Cash rec. of 1). Whitney 5 

J. Dustin ...... 5 

Dec. 12. J. Davenport 12 50 

1',. Stoddard 12 50 

" Lambert & Ilersey .... 2.3 

$156 ns 







Or. 






April 13. 


( ash paid .1. A. Kenrick 
■ J. Wild 






10 0."> 

SO 


June 


•■ J. Gallagher 
• Blank deeds 
■• D. Whitney 

■ F. Clement 






li; 38 

38 

<; 7"> 

10 75 


i:> Sep. 


• W. Carr 
■ .1. Gallagher 






2 00 

It 75 


April. 


" C. Smith 
" F. Page 






s> 


Feb. 


•• A. Newell for 
ing deeds 
( lash to balance 


recoi 


■ding & acknowledg- 


1(1 

81 22 


All whic 


h is submitted 






.$150 08 




by . 


>rder 


of the Committee. 

.Ikssi 


Bird. 



Annual Meeting, March 2, 1846. 185 

Voted, That the recommendations contained in the report 
of the Cemetery Committee respecting restrictions in the 
sale of burial lots be adopted, and that hereafter, no lot in 
the Cemetery shall be sold by the Committee to a non- 
resident. 

Mr. Charles Stearns, Jun., Chairman of the Trustees of 
the Brookline School Fund, made the following report: 

TRUSTEES OF SCHOOL KIND REPORT. 

The Trustees of the Brookline School Fund having performed all the 
duty required of them, -would how .submit theii final report. 
The balance of the Fund at tin- last report of the Trustees, 

uncollected, was $1865 .17 

Which has been increased by the interest the past year. 

amounting to ........ '.t7 26 

lo the sum of $1962 63 

All of which, agreeable to the vote of tin- town at the 
annual meeting, 1844, has been collected, and of the 
amount there has been paid into the Treasury of the 

Town the sum of 1962 13 

And for discharging mortgages ...... 50 

Making as above $1962 63 

The Trustee- have carefully investigated the books and accounts of 
the Treasurer. Deacon Thomas Griggs, and find them in excellent order 
and accurately kept, and the interest of the several securities in all cases 
correctly cast, and they deem it a duty, and one in which they take great 
pleasure, in attesting to the fidelity and ability with which he has so long 
and faithfully performed gratuitously the duties of Treasurer of the 
Brookline School Fund. The Trustees, agreeably to their instructions, 
having collected the funds, by transfer of the securities or otherwise, 
and the same having been invested for the promotion of education, in 
the erection of a Town Hall, in which some excellent school rooms have 
been provided, believing that the objects for which a part of the fund 
was originally given are as fully attained as they would have been under 
any other circustances. would now most respectfully ask to be dis- 
charged. All of which is most respectfully submitted. 

March 2. 1846. Charles Stf.auxs. Jin.. ; Trustees 

Daniel Sanderson. j of The 

James Robixson, Brookline 

Aiu.iaii W. Goddard, J School Fund. 

It was then — 

Voted, To accept the report of the Trustees of the School 
Fund, and that they be from this time discharged from any 
further duty. 

On motion of Samuel Philbrick, Esq., it was — 



186 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the sum of Seven Thousand one hundred dollars 
be raised in this town the present year by Taxes to be law- 
fully assessed for defraying the expenses of the Town, and 
that the same be applied to the several purposes named 
in the estimate annexed to the Treasurer's report, with an 
addition of Three hundred dollars to be made for support of 
schools, agreeably to the report of the School Committee. 

Voted, That a committee of three persons be chosen to 
linish a School room off in the Town House by and with the 
advice and concurance of the School Committee, and to have 
the same ready for occupancy at the commencement of the 
next term of the Schools. 

The following gentlemen were chosen to attend to the duty, 
viz. : Samuel Philbrick, David Coolidge, and Thomas Griggs. 

Voted, That the same committee be authorized to make 
such alteration in the Town Hall as they may deem expedi- 
ent that will effectually ventilate the same. 

Voted, That the School Committee be authorized to carry 
into effect the several recommendations contained in their 
report the present year. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow such 
sum as may be needed to meet the expenses of the Town the 
present year, not exceeding One Thousand dollars, to be 
paid from the taxes as soon as collected. 

On motion of Mr. David R. Griggs, the following pream- 
ble and vote of instructions were passed, to wit : 

" In view of the increasing and alarming extent to which 
the sale of intoxicating drinks is openly and fearlessly prose- 
cuted in the neighborhood — 

' ' We hereby authorize and instruct our Selectmen to pros- 
ecute every person that shall continue to sell Spirituous 
liquors in this Town without license." 

The 7 Article in the warrant was taken into consideration, 
and the subject (that of procuring a Bell & Sign for the 
Engine House) was debated at some length by several gen- 
tlemen, both for and against it, and was finally decided by 
the following vote — 

Voted, That the sum of One Hundred & Fifty-Five dollars 
be appropriated from the sum already granted for Engine 



Annual Meeting, March 2, 1846. 187 

Expenses, in the estimates annexed to the Treasurer's report, 
for the purpose of providing and placing on the Engine 
house a Bell and a Sign. 

The subject of the 8 Article in the warrant respecting 
providing wells & pumps for the several School houses in 
town where necessary, It was — 

Voted, To submit to a committee of three, who are to 
make the necessary examinations and enquiry, and report at 
the adjourned meeting. 

Daniel Sanderson, Samuel Philbrick and Marshal Stearns 
were chosen to attend to the duty. 

Upon the subject of the 10 Article in the warrant respect- 
ing Ringing the Bell three times a day, there was consider- 
able discussion, there being questions raised in regard to the 
legal right of the town to make an appropriation for that 
purpose, it was finally settled by the passage of the follow- 
ing Vote : 

Voted. That the sum of Sixty-Five Dollars be appropri- 
ated for the purpose of Ringing a Bell in this Town three 
times a day during the ensuing year, the whole details as to 
what bell, time to be rung, person to ring it, and the 
amount of compensation, to be submitted to the control of 
the Selectmen. — Vote 21 to 16. 

Treasurer's Report as accepted, as pr. entry on page 180 : 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

In compliance with the laws of the Commonwealth requiring Trea- 
surers of Towns to render true accounts of their receipts and payments 
and other official doings annually, the Treasurer now submits the follow- 
ing report : 

At the last auditing of the accounts of the Treasurer there was a bal- 
ance in the Treasury of ........ $701 40 

By authority of the Town by their Votes at sundry times, the follow- 
ing suras of money have been borrowed by the Treasurer, under the 
direction of the Selectmen, at such times as it was wanted by the chair- 
man of the building committee of the Town Hall, and for other necessary 
expenses of the Town, to wit : 

March 12. 1845, of Benjamin Goddard, Esq. 

April i), 1845, ■• Samuel Philbrick. •• . . 

May 12. 1845, " .John Goodnow, " . 

May 29, 1845. ■• John Goodnow. •• . 

Aug. 7, 1845, " Caleb Clark. •• . 

Amount borrowed .... 



$1056 


76 


1000 




51 )( i 




1000 




500 




$4056 


:<; 



188 



Brookline Town Records. 



82 



4-1 » no 



34 



Making the expense of lighting and fuel, &c, as paid by 
sundry individuals that have used the Town Hall . 

Received of the Town of Watertown for assistance ren- 
dered to James Whitney, a pauper of that Town who 
was sick with Small Pox in Brookline .... 

Received for sale of map. to Feb. 1 

Received of Mr. Stephen S. C. Jones the proceeds of the 
Hay Scales one year to Feb. 1 . 

Making the whole amount received into the Treasury from 
all sources 



1962 13 



r 183 



2; 



4<i 14 



nil 71 



A part of which principle and interest that has fallen due. has been 
paid, as will be shown in another part of this report. 
There has been paid into the Treasury by Dea. Thomas 
Griggs, Treasurer of the Brookline School Fund, at 
sundry times, the balance of said fund, principle and 

interest, amounting to 

Received the amount of the Taxes assessed for the year 1845 

exclusive of 172.51 abatements by assessors . 
Received of Samuel Philbrick, Esq., chairman of the build- 
ing committee of the Town Hall, the proceeds of Sales 
of Gravel, Loam, Trees, &c, amounting to 
Received of the State Treasurer for the Support of a State 
Pauper one year . . . . . 

Received from State Treasury the Town of Brookline's pro- 
portion of the income of the Massachusetts School Fund 
for the past year ........ 

Received of the overseers of the Poor of tins Town, it 
being the proceds of the estate and effects of Mrs. Sarah 

Kenrick, deceased, amounting to 

Mrs. Kenrick has been chargeable to the town of Brook- 
line as a- pauper, for about twelve years, and at her death, 
which took place last September, there was found deposited 
to her credit, at the Savings Bank in Boston, and in money, 
among her effects, with a small amount received by the sale 
of furniture, &c, the aforesaid sum of six hundred & eleven 
dollars & 71 cents. 

Received of Mrs. Samuel Philbrick for the expense of 
warming, lighting the Town Hall two evenings 
for lectures. ....... 3 50 

Received of Mr. Elijah ('. Hoyt his collections for ex- 
pense of warming and lighting town hall and for 
the use of the same for sundry concerts. &c. . 
Received of Mr. Benj'n 1>. Davis for the expense of 
warming and lighting the Town Hall for Singing 
School. 20 evenings @ $2 
Received of Mr. Daniel Sanderson for the expense of 
lighting and warming the Town Hall for Lyceum 
Lectures. &c. ...... 



llo 32 



3G 50 
34 50 



83 00 



SI 4! »07 47 



Annual Meeting, March 2, 1846. 



189 



There has been paid from the Treasury, by orders of the Selectmen, as 
follows, to wit : 
For Support of Paupers — Viz : 

George Thompson & his wife 

William C. AspinWall 

Lew is Crehore & wife 

Calvin Shed, with his funeral charge . 

Anna Dana 

Jonathan Cook Jackson .... 

Sarah Kenrick, with her funeral charges . 

Eliza Thompson ...... 

Amy Louisa Redding Thompson . 

Harriet King 

James Whitney 

Samuel Walcott 

Margarett .Miller 

Stephen King 

Michael Morrison ..... 



Making the amounl paid for paupers 
Paid for the Repairs of Public Buildings 
For the Support of Schools 

Viz. : High School .... 

North District School 
South District School 
Middle District School 
School Committee >S. printing report 

Repairs of Highways .... 
Viz.: Harvard Street district. 
Washington - 



Jr. 



Walnut 

Warren 

Heath 

Clyde 

Newton 

Boylston 

Boylston 

Brighton 



C. St earn 
J. Bartletl 
J. Bird 

J. W. Warren. 
T. ( !. Quimby 
A. Loker . 
C. Craft. Jr. 
S. Warren 
H. M. Sanborn 
D. Sanderson 



Western. 
Eastern 
District 
Repairs of Bridges on Washington St. 
To Geo. W. Goldsmith & R. Mcintosh for 
breaking roads in Winter 
For assessing and collecting Taxes 

Viz.: To the Assessors for the Expense of 
Assessing & casting 
A. Newell for Collecting 
For Town Hall: 

To building Committee 

■• Expense of dedication, shelves, platform. &c. 



s| 



144 
138 

21 15 
L88 

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110 
L88 

70 
115 
L21 

60 
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90 
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157 
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91 
81 
87 
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82 
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00 
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41 

44 
67 



1082 80 

236 2> i 

2036 21 



L139 n: 



268 '."i 



Paid for Town House in all 



5218 59 



$42 


20 


4 


73 


58 


33 


32 


50 



190 . Brookline Town Records. 

Expense of Fuel, Taking care of Town Hall, &c. . . . $137 76 

Viz. : Paid Mess. Seamans for oil, &c. 
" Mr. J. Davenport, Mats, &c. 
' ; " E. C. Hoyt for his services a* 

sexton, &c 

Paid Cephas Brackett his bill for Coal 
Paid sundry Bills as per Vote of Town, for publishing- maps 
Paid bills for Expense of Survey of Cemetery 
Paid Sundry bills expenses of Fire Engine and Engine Com- 
pany 

State, County & Needham Taxes 

Town officers .......... 

Paid Charles Stearns. Jun.. Benj. B. Davis and James Rob- 

inton as pr. Vote 

Paid John Gooclnow principal and Interest .... 

Paid Caleb Clark principal and Interest 

Paid Samuel Philbrick and Thomas Griggs Interest 
Paid Sundry bills for Contingent Expenses, legal Advice. 
Kent of Lyceum Hall. Stones for boundary monuments, 
Blank Books for Hay Scales, Postage, Stationery, Print- 
ing, Kooni for Selectmen and Assessors, Expense of 
transfering School Fund Mortgages, and Sundry other 
small bills for necessary Expenses, as pr. orders of 
Selectmen .......... 213 65 

Making the whole amount paid from the Treasury the 

past year $13833 43 

And leaving a balance on hand (including a small amount of 

Taxes uncollected) of 1074 04 

Which makes the sum of 14907 47 

Being a corresponding Amount with receipts into the Treasury. 



278 


63 


7 


32 


291 


29 


596 


98 


189 


74 


05(; 


76 


542 


33 


505 




32 


17 



The debts of the Town, with the interest computed to the 1st of Feb- 
ruary, 1846, are as follows, Viz. : 

There is due to Benj. Goddard, Esq 1112 77 

■■ '• « Samuel Philbrick 1018 50 

" " " John Goodnow 1010 33 



3141 60 

Making the outstanding debts of the Town on the first of February, 

1846, $3141.60, which may be reduced by the balance in the Treasury to 

about $2100. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

A. Newell, Treas'r. 
Brookline, March 2d. 1846. 

The Auditing Committee have the pleasure to report that the foregoing 
account current of the Treasurer is characterized by his usual fidelity 
and accuracy ; that it is fully avouched and precisely cast ; and that the 
cash balance was duly tendered to the committee. It will be perceived, 



Annual Meeting, March 2, 1846. 



191 



that in consequence of building, unusual repairs. &c, the amount of 
collections & expenditures for the past year lias been unprecedented & 
has involved the town officers in unusually laborious and responsible 
duties. These duties the Committee are happy to say. appear to have 
been discharged with the closest regard to the best interests of the 
Town in accordance with your votes and appropriations. 



Charles Wild. 
Signed. Elijah Corey. 

Ani.rui W. Goddakd. 



Commit/: , . 



Estimates for 1846. In the usual conference between the Selectmen 
of the town and the Auditing Committee, it was deemed proper in view 
of the past expenditures and present debt of the town, to present the 
following Estimate of the Expenses as a ground for the Tax of 1846. 
Support of Poor 
Assessing & Coll. Taxes 
Education of Youth 
Town Officers . 
Repairs of Highways 
Abatement of Taxes 
Engine and Eire department 
Contingencies . 
State & County Taxes 
Reduction of Town debt 
Fuel & Repairs of buildings 



from which may be deducted bal. in Treas. 



$1000 
27 ■.-. 

2201 » 
250 

1100 
250 
300 
500 
600 

1200 
200 

$7875 

1075 



leaving to be raised 
or a round sum of 7000 Dollars. 



SCSI II) 



On motion of Mr. Samuel A. Walker, Esq., it was — 
Voted, To adjourn to meet again on Monday, the 16th 
March instant, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 



The foregoing is a true transcript of the transactions of 
the Town of Brookline, at the Annual Meeting for 1846 — 
excepting the report of the School Committee, which was 
made as recorded on page 180, and withdrawn by the Com- 
mittee, for the purpose of making a copy for the Secretary 
of the board of Education, and will be entered with these 
records when received. [See page 199.] 

Attest : Artemas Newell, 

Town Clerk. 



192 Brookline Town Records. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth the Town 
Clerk issued his warrant to Constable Clapp (who was duly 
qualified to serve in said office by taking the oath) requir- 
ing him to notify & summons all persons who had been 
elected to office at the Annual Meeting, of whom the laws 
require an oath, to appear before said Clerk, and take the 
oath required for said offices respectfully, within seven days 
from the date of said notice. 

Brookline, March 3, 1846. 

Attest: A rtemas Newell, 

Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 3. 18-46. 

Then personally appeared Alexander EL Clapp and took the oath 
required of him by the laws of the Commonwealth to qualify him for the 
office of Constable of the town of Brookline for the ensuing year. 

before me. Artemas Newell, 
Town Clerk. 

Officers appeared and took the several oaths to qualify 
them for their duties, viz. : 

March 4. NORFOLK, SS. Then personally appeared the several per- 
sons — hereafter named — and took the oath required by law, 
for the several offices at the time as set forth against their 
names, respectfully : 

4. Oliver Whyte as Field Driver. 
George Stoddard " Field Driver. 

•' Marshal Stearns •• Selectman. 

" " James Bartlett " Selectman & Highway Surveyor. 

" " Hugh M. Sanborn " Selectman & Surveyor of Highways. 

5. John W. Warren Surveyor of Highways. 
<;. Charles Smith Field Driver. 

" 7. Abraham H. Lambert Field Driver. 

9. Flisha Stone Constable & Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 

■ 10. Thos. N.Woodward Highway Surveyor. 

•• 11. Royal Mcintosh Highway Surveyor. 

•' 11. Simon Warren Highway Surveyor. 

" 12. Jesse Bird Highway Surveyor. 

" 13. Charles Stearns. Jr. | 

Jesse Bird [-Assessors. 

[saac Cook J 

" 13. Charles Stearns. Jun. Highway Surveyor. 

" 15. Samuel A. Walker Field Driver. 

" " Caleb Clark Fence Viewer. 

•' 17. Hugh M. Sanborn Pound Keeper. 

•' 18. William White Highway Surveyor. 

'« 24. Clark L. Haynes Fence Viewer. 

• 27. George W. Goldsmith Highway Surveyor. 

April 4. Jeremiah Lyon Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 16, 1846. 193 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, 1846. 

Pursuant to adjournment on 2d inst., the inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline met for the transaction of such busi- 
ness as might come before them on this day, March 16, 1846, 
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 

The meeting- was called to order by the Moderator, Mr. 
Daniel Sanderson. 

Voted to proceed to business. 

The Clerk read the proceedings of the last meeting (on 
2d inst.), and the following persons — who were chosen at 
the last meeting — were reported by the Town Clerk as not 
having taken the oath, according to law, to qualify them for 
the duties of their respective offices — To Wit : 

William J. Hyde and William White as Highway Sur- 
veyors. 

John Gibbs as fence Viewer. 

Samuel Clark, John Gibbs, George Griggs, William J. 
Griggs and Samuel Philbrick as Field Drivers. 

Jeremiah I/von as Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 

Simon Warren as Pound Keeper. 

Seth T. Thayer & George Stoddard had not signified their 
acceptance of the office of Fire Wards. 

Mr. Seth T. Thayer being present, forthwith signified his 
acceptance. 

It was 

Voted, To excuse William J. Hyde from serving as 
Highway Surveyor for the present year. 

Made choice of George W. Goldsmith as Highway Sur- 
veyor on the Clyde Street district, vice William J. Hyde, 
excused. 

Voted, To excuse John Gibbs from Serving as Fence 
Viewer. 

Made Choice of Clark L. Haynes for Fence Viewer, vice 
John Gibbs, excused from serving. 

Voted, To excuse Simon Warren from serving as Pound 
Keeper. 



194 Brookline Town Records. 

Chose Hugh M. Sanborn Pound Keeper in room of Simon 
Warren, excused. 

Voted, by their own request, To excuse Samuel Philbrick 
&, Samuel Clark from serving as Field Drivers. 

The following report of the state of the Guide Boards & 
Posts was made by the Selectmen : 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen report the 
state of the Guide Posts and Boards of the Town and the location of 
each, as follows : 

to Brighton & Newton. 
Cambridge. 

Brighton, Newton & Dedham. 
Brighton & Cambridge. 
Jamaica Plain. 
Newton & Brighton. 
Newton & Jamaica Plain. 
Newton, Dedham & Brighton. 
Brighton & Dedham. 
Newton & Brighton. 
Dedham & Newton. 

22 

The Selectmen would recommend that there be one placed on a post 
now standing near Charles Steams', directing to Cambridge Port, also 
one at the junction of South Street with Newton Street directing to 
Brighton 

AH of which is submitted. Daniel Sanderson, ) 

Marshal Stearns, y Selectmen. 
Brookline, March 2, 1846. James Bartlett, J 

Voted, To accept the report and the guide boards reccom- 
mended by the Selectmen to be provided. 

Voted, The Treasurer be authorized to effect an insurance 
on the Town Hall for Four Thousand dollars at the Norfolk 
Mutual Insurance office at Dedham, provided it can be 
legally done. 

Rev. Wra. H. Shailer, in behalf of the School Committee, 
made a Report, which was accepted, and the reccommenda- 
tions therein contained are to be carried into effect. And it 
was — 

Voted, That this report, and the report made by the 
School Com. at the Annual Meeting on the 2d inst., be 



There 


are 2 at Mrs. White's Corner 




'• I • 


• Charles Stearns' 


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" 3 ' 


• Ackers' Corner 




•' 2 • 


' Baptist Meeting house. 




« 1 ' 


• Dr. Pierce's meetinghouse 


" 


" 2 ' 


• Mr. Sheafes, 




" 2 ; 


• S. (i. Perkin's, 




■ :; ■ 


' Col. Perkins' corner, 


" 


" 2 ' 


' S. Cabot's corner. 


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" 2 ' 


• Hyde's corner, 


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'< 2 ' 


• Mr. P. Goodnow's corner. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 16, 184<i. 195 

revised, and both embodied in one report, and to be printed, 
that each family may have a copy, and after such revision it 
will be entered with these records. 

Rec'd and entered on page 199 to 204. 

Mr. Daniel Sanderson, in behalf of the Committee chosen 
on the 2d instant, to make the necessary enquiry in regard to 
supplying Wells and Pumps for the several School Houses 
in town, made the following report : 

The Committee appointed by the Town Cor the purpose of making 
enquiry as to the necessity of providing Wells, pumps, &c, a1 each School 
House in the Town, have attended to that duly, and submit the following 
report : 

That those families which reside near where the Schools are located 
have been very much annoyed, by the frequent applications of the 
scholars for Water especially in the summer season of the year, is mat- 
ter of fact: — And that the scholars are interrupted in their studies by 
leaving school in school hours, and going in some eases the distance of 
a quarter of a mile for the purpose of obtaining water, is also true. 
That it is the duty of the Town to endeavor to remedy these evils, we 
think no one will doubt. This can be done most effectually by sinking a 
well and providing a punt]) where it is necessary and practicable. We 
believe that wells can be supplied at each School House in the Town 
without any difficulty, except at the middle district or high school, where 
the land is very rocky, and there is already a well and pump in rear of 
the house of Dr. Pierce for the benefit of that school which should be 
kept in repair at the Toavu's expense. — your committee would not recom- 
mend that the Town should provide a well at each school house, only in 
those districts where mostneeded, — as it will be rather a matter of experi- 
ment, whether or not the pumps can be kept in good order, — one at tin 
Town House as the abasement rooms are soon to be occupied for school-. 
one also at the South Middle District. The expenses estimated at 7." 
dolls, each — $150 — which can be paid from the Town Treasury without 
further appropriation by the Town, as there has been live hundred dollars 
already provided for contingencies. 

In behalf of the committee. 

Daniel Sanderson. 

Voted, To Accept the Report of the committee on Wells, 
Pumps, &c. 

Voted, on motion of Mr. S. A. Walker, That there be 
another well dug, in addition to those recommended in the 
report of the committee, for the North District School. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to sink a well 
on the Town House lot, one on the South Middle District 



196 Brookline Town Records. 

lot, and one on the school house lot in School Street, and pro- 
vide a pump for each, and that the sum of Three Hundred 
dollars be raised and appropriated for that use. 

Voted, on motion of Mr. Walker, That the Selectmen be, 
and are hereb}' authorized and directed to plant a suitable 
number of forest trees in the vicinity of the northern school 
house, and that the expense be paid from the contingent 
fund. 

Voted, That the Committee appointed at our last meeting 
on the 2nd inst. to finish a school room in the Town House, 
be now further authorized [to] finish two school rooms & to 
build two out-houses, with a partition fence between them, 
& have them properly finished for the town schools on the 
first of May next, and that the sum of four hundred & fifty 
dollars be raised the present year in addition to the amount 
voted to be raised at our meeting on the 2nd inst. for the 
purpose of defraying the expenses of finishing the school 
rooms and out-buildings. 

Voted, on motion of Mr. Marshall Stearns, That the vote 

passed at the last meeting, by which the Selectmen were 

authorized to sell the wood lot in Needham, be reconsidered. 

After considerable discussion, the whole subject of the 

Wood Lot was indefinitely postponed. 

Voted, That the sum of eleven hundred dollars, which has 
been appropriated for repairs of highways the ensuing year, 
shall be assessed & collected as other Town Taxes are, and 
One Thousand dollars be divided between the several high- 
way districts in the proportion as determined by vote of the 
Town in 1845, and no Surveyor shall receive any money 
from the Treasury until he shall have expended the same 
according to the requisitions of the law, and his account shall 
have received the approval of the Selectmen. One hundred 
dollars of the appropriation to be expended by the Select- 
men for repairs of highways at such times and places as they 
shall deem expedient. 

The oath of office was administered in open town meeting 
by the Moderator, to the Treasurer & Collector, Artemas 
Newell. 



Militia List, 1846. 



197 



Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 



Attest : A. Newell, 

Town Clerk. 



Return of Names of persons enrolled in the Militia in the 
Town of Brookline for the year 184f>. The whole number 
being 321. 



Parker Kennister 
Blaisdale 

Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
< 'harles Warren 
Francis Howe 
William P. Sanderson 
.lames S. Amory 
Xath'l W. Bracketl 
Charles 1). Head 
( aleb Kenriek 
George Perry 
Charles Hnsk 
John L. Huntress 
Ralph Hosford 
Henry Weeks 
Samuel D. Snelling 
Owen Wheeler 

Daniel 

-lames Ward 
Thomas H. Perkins, 3d 
Samuel Eliot 
William Andrews 
Abijah W. Goddard 
Aaron Lewis 
John Estes 
John H. Park 
Hiram Waldron 
Freedom Berry 
Simon Whittier 
Charles G. Colbath 
William J. Hyde 
Charles Twist 
Augustus Twist 



Stephen Wing 

James Litchfield 
Hiram R. Bean 
Simon W. Clifford 
Charles <ratt 
George ('raft 
Chauncy Woodward 
Nathaniel Wormell 
Charles < !raig 
Nath'l P. Johnston ' 
Caleli Craft, .Tun. 
Edward Philips 
George w. Goodnough 
Aaron Smith 
Samuel Mclntire 
Joseph N . Gutterson 
i reorge Hancock 
Varney Mosure 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
Joshua Foss 
Isaiah Felkar 
William Baker 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Charles Heath 
Aaron D. Fairbanks 
Charles Smith 
Asa Trowbridge 
William Jordan 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Harrison Storer 
Alonzo Gould 
David Berry 
Ebenezer Reed 



198 



Brooldine Tovm Records. 



Levi Wight 
Joseph Eliot 
Wells Field 
George Penniman 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Charles Henshaw 
Willard A. Humphrey 
Willard S. Brewer 
George Cowden 
Russel Bean 
John Maloon 
Thomas Davenport 
William A. Hayden 
William C. Cunningham 
Henry Kelly 
Swain Clement 
Nath'l Reed 
Alfred Robie 
Albert Woodsum 
George W. Stearns 
Thomas Pettingill 
I It'orge W. Fennie 
( reorge McKay 
William Cantelow 
Daniel S. Kendall 
John C. Rogers 
Frederick A. Stone 
Francis McKenny 
Samuel Clark 
George Hill 
Mark Whitcher 
Win. B. Town 
John A. Bird 
Jeremiah Veazie 
William Colman 
Henry W. Carr 
Joshua Edwards 
Frederick Harryman 
John Nugent 
William J. Griggs 
John Mills 
John Biennis 
Morril S. Bean 
Charles Whittemore 
John T. Smith 
David Whitney 
Waldo Butler 
George Gibbs 
Hansom N. Weld 



James L. Oliver 
William A. Morse 
Benj'n H. Rhodes 
George Griggs 
John Perkins 
George D. Austin 
George Atkinson 
Edwin Atkinson 
Stephen Blanchard 
George Wild 
Oliver Whyte 
Nath'l G. Chapin 
James Edmunds 
William H. Jennison 
Franklin Colcord 
John Mack 
John Park 
George Colburn 
William G. Coles 
George Alia id 
Hiram A Hard 
Almon B. Allard 
Alden Allard 
John Leighton 
Oliver G. Pray 
John Williams 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Samuel A. Robinson 

Franklin 
Moses Withington 
Francis H. Corey 
Woodbury Kenister 
George T. Bartlett 
Amos Whittemore 
James Parker 
Timothy Corey 
John McKenny 
Michael Kirk 
John Weston 
Royal Woodward, Jr, 

Barker 
William Church 

Young 
William Philips 
George Leonard 
Oliver Brown 
Alonzo Dyer 
William Bragg 
John Tyler 



Erastus H. Harris 
Sherburne Hutchins 
John Bowman 
William A. White 
James Sanford 
Nath'l Fry 
Stephen Foss 
Samuel Ellis 
Jonas Hastings 
Milton Danforth 
Timothy Steward 
Joseph S. Bacon 
Peter W. Pierce 
George E. Sickles 
John Dane, Jun. 
William W. Clemen 
Jona'n D. Long 
John A. Bailey 
George S. dishing 
Franklin Tukey 
Nath'l Lyford 

True 

Eastman 

Brown 

(ilitton 

Sheldon 

Stanley 

Gillet 

Beckwith 

Putnam 
Stanford Phinney 
John Butler 
Fernald Butler 
David S. Coolidge 
Isaac Dearborn 
Charles Coolidge 
Henry Orcutt, Jun. 
Joshua Pray 
Joseph Clase 
William Melcher 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
John Haynes 
A. W. Seaman 
J. M. Seaman 
Daniel H. Brooks 
James M. Ingalls 
Jesse Farnam 
A. H . Clapp 
E. C. Hoyt 



Militia List, 1846. 



199 



Isaac R. Atwood 
Benj. F. Baker 
William Page 
Thomas Seaverns 
Hezekiah Shailer 
George Stoddard 
John Gustin 
Thomas Wentworth 
Bela .lenks 
Henry Fowler 
Reuben Wyman 
Ambrose M. Stearns 
Andrew Pray 
Asa Stevens 
E. T. Cotting 
D. S. Cotting 
Amos Cotting, Jan. 
David [Morrison 
Hiram Colton 
Edward Morrison 
Benj. young 
Sylvester Kimball 
1 ieorge W. Butters 
George II. Weston 
Stephen S. Robinson 
Jesse Melcher 
< (liver Cousens 
Nathan Sanford 
Edward Hall 
Elisha M. Hall 
Henry Hall 
L. B. Dame 
Ivory Ross 
Thomas Littlefield 
Joseph Day 



Nath'l Sawyer 
Charles Sprague 
John Crayton 
John Frazier 
Luther Seaverns 
Joseph Hull* 
William Douglas 

Mead 

Crocker 

Bemis 
Augustus Allen 
Hiram Grover 
Sylvester Piper 

Soule 

Turner 
William Hardy 
William Somerville 
Maddison Mcintosh 

Ellwell 
( !yrus Eagerly 
Calvin Piper 
Harvey James 
A. II. Lambert 
Ephraim Church 
Waldo W. Thomas 
( lharles W. Tolman 
John Brown 
Benj. Lane 
< reorge W. Patten 
Edward Secomb 
John B. Libby 
Henry Mellen 
Charles W. Scudder 
John Randall 
Henry Whitney 



Charles Lord 
Joseph Ferguson 

Wallace 
Charles C. Moselej 
Joshua Little 

Page 
John Dustin 
Ansel Waterman 

Charles Staples 

Baker 
Joseph Cousens 

( lummings 
Franklin Smilie 

Martin 
Charles Stuart 
James Morse 
Abraham C. Small 
Charles L. Palmer 
William II. Palm< 
Thomas Lee 
Horace Consent 
( reorge Bell 
Charles J. .Morrill 
Benj. N. Jewett 
Christopher P. Shattuck 
Edwin Page 
Edwin Veazie 
Dennis Long 
David Whitney 
Albert Whitne\ 
Edmund Pray 
William McAllist* 
1 J oval Mcintosh 
Peleii- Gulliver 



Attest : Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 
Brookline, May — , 1846. 

Keport of the School Committee for 1846, ivs made and 
accepted at the annual and adjourned meetings, as refered 
to on pages 180 and 194, it having been revised and printed 
(300 copies), this entry being made from the printed copy : 

KEPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 

Education is yearly becoming a subject of more general importance 
and engrossing interest. The desires of the earlier settlers of this Com- 
monwealth, that knowledge might be diffused among all classes, and that 



200 Brookline Town Records. 

every Individual citizen might be prepared for a proper discharge of his 

Civil. Social and Moral duties, yet live and glow in the bosoms of their 
descendants. We honor their .Memories. We acknowledge with grati- 
tude, that with their limited means and poor facilities for active exertion 
they seem to have done what they could, and transmitted to posterity 
the rich inheritance of their zeal and their examples. It is to the 
enlarged and liberal views which they took of the subject of education, 
that .Massachusetts owes much of her prosperity and happiness. It is to 
this that she is indebted for her influence in the national Council, and for 
the respect paid to her citizens in every part of the Union. As a Com- 
monwealth, we have been highly distinguished for the importance 
attached to popular education. Our fathers sought to have the whole 
people educated. But yet Ave suppose it not irreverent to say that they 
cherished some superficial views in regard to the best method of secur" 
ing this desirable object. 

They maintained public schools, but it is evident that those schools 
furnished but poor facilities for properly educating the mass. We go 
hack a few years, and without, searching among the recollections of " the 
oldest inhabitants" we find that the opinion was prevalent, that nothing 
hut the rudiments of learning should be taught in our public schools. 

Then in almost every town these schools were continued but a portion 
of the year, some three or four months in winter and in many places 
about the same length of time in summer. New teachers were employed 
for nearly every short term, and those were sent into the school without 
much regard to their mental or moral qualifications. The schools were 
rarclx visited by the Committee except at the close of a term, at which 
lime was an examination of the scholars, conducted entirely by the 
teachers. And often that examination was the veriest fraud. 

Questions were asked on which the children had been drilled for week-. 
while their moral natures were subject to the consciousness of having 
been thus trained to cheat the Committee. Who that has lived thirty or 
forty years, cannot recall many scenes like these. The thought of having 
High Schools open to all the children in town, possessing the necessary 
qualifications had scarcely been conceived. Those who desired more 
than the rudiments of learning, if their parents had the ability, were sent 
to private schools and academic-. This exerted an unhappy influence upon 
society, by producing envious feelings on the part of those who were not 
ihu- f avored, and aristocratic' feelings on the part of those who were. 
But for a few years past, measures have been adopted to remove these 
evils. A new impulse has been given to the cause of popular education. 
Year after year, it has been presented, in messages from the Chief Execu- 
tives of this Commonwealth, and received the attention of our legislator-. 

Laws have been enacted and measures adopted which in many minds, 
have given an increased importance to this subject. In most towns pro- 
vision is now made to educate the children of the poor, as well as of the 
rich, and if any who have the natural ability for acquiring knowledge, 
grow up in ignorance, it is because parents and guardians are unfaithful 
to their trust, in not suffering their children to enjoy privileges which are 
offered them. Changes, not to say improvements have taken place, in 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 16, 1846. 201 

tliis and in other towns. Our public schools are continued through the 
whole year, excepting only the time which seems to be absolutely acces- 
sary for vacations. Our teachers are thoroughly examined on entering 
the schools, and generally employed by the year. Every school is visited 
monthly and examined quarterly by the Committees, and an amount of 
time & labor, and money expended, in keeping our schools in operation, 
which a few years since would have been deemed unwise and impracti- 
cable. And we think no one who will contemplate this subject, and 
compare the state of our schools now. with that in which they were a 
few years since, will deny that they are somewhat improved. Individ- 
ual exceptions for a limited period then' may lie. but upon the whole, 
the character of our public schools has been greatly elevated. 

During the year which is now closing, the schools in this town over 
which your committee have endeavored to watch with scrupulous care, 
have all been continued without interruption. Within that time there 
has been no material change in the arrangement of the schools, or the 
method of instruction, it may perhaps be thought unnecessary to give 
an account of each of the Schools separately in our annual report, yet, in 
the opinion of your Committee this i> the best method of bringing their 
condition fairly before the town. The inhabitants of each district may 
thus learn in what estimation the school, which their children attend, is 
held by the Committee. 

In- the South West, or Cpper District, the school has been much 
-mailer the past year than it was during the year preceeding. Not more 
than fifteen have been members of the school at any one time — the average 
number has been about nine. Last year the whole number was tweuty- 
seven. This reduction in number is to lie attributed to the removal of 
families from the town, and the attendance of some at the High School 
who had formerly attended in that district, rather than to any deficiency 

in the instruction, for the scl 1 your Committee believe to be in an 

excellent condition. The examination conducted by the Committee sat- 
isfied them that instruction had been faithfully imparted, and we think 
that those who have children in that school may safely confide in the 
mental and moral qualifications of the teacher. 

The school in the South, or Middle District has been under the care of 
its present teacher only since May last. The whole number belonging to 
this school at any one time during the year is thirty-four. Last year it 
was forty-four. The average number, however, has been about the same 
as it was the year preceeding. At the annual examination the appear- 
ance of this school was more encouraging than it has been for several 
years. There is perhaps no district in town with so many disadvantages 
to contend with, as this. Several of the families are somewhat remote 
from the school house, and the children cannot attend very regularly, 
especially in winter; and there have been also many transient families in 
this district, whose children coming in irregularly, have been a source of 
embarrassment to the school. But under its present teacher, who has 
had some fourteen years' experience, the school seems to be doing 
remarkably well. 



202 Brookline Town Records. 

The North School, under the care of a well-qualified teacher and assist- 
ant, has during the past year sustained fully the high reputation which 
it has previously earned, and probably it never was in a more prosperous 
condition than it is at present. Its teachers are devoted to their calling. 
and the school bears testimony to their fidelity in imparting instruction. 
The number of children in this school has considerably increased during 
the year, and the whole number belonging to it is upwards of ninety. 
Although the school is divided, and under the supervision of two 
teachers, the average number of scholars in either room is greater than 
in both the other primary schools combined. The accommodations are 
loo limited to meet the present, much less the growing wants of this 
district. During the last term there has been singing taught in this 
school twice each week by Mr. Johnson of Boston. It is proper to 
say that he undertook this instruction unsolicited by the committee, 
though with their knowledge and approbation. It was entirely gratuit- 
ous on his part, but of material benefit to the children — ottering them 
relaxation and delight, and inducing them to return with increased vigor 
and devotion to their studies after a half hour spent in singing. 

The High School, patronized by the whole town, has been continued 
without change during the year, except for the last two terms there has 
been a female instead of a male assistant, as formerly. The philosoph- 
ical apparatus, to which allusion was made in our last report, lias been 
procured and placed in the school room. Such an apparatus was greatly 
needed in illustrating the principles of the natural sciences and in impress- 
ing them upon the minds of the scholars. By means of it a teacher may 
throw interest into studies which otherwise would be dry and tedious. 
And many thanks are due to those who contributed to this object, as also 
to him by whom contributions were solicited. The number attending 
the school the last year has been considerably larger than in any previous 
year since the school was established, and having been admitted without 
any qualifications or restrictions, except in age. it has been impossible 
for the school to sustain that elevated character which it is desirable for 
a High School to have. Owing to this, and a variety of circumstances, 
which we need not enumerate, the school has not, for the last six 
months, been in as prosperous a state as formerly. The teachers have 
labored with the kindest intentions and most unwearied diligence and 
devotion, but still the school is not what your committee are desirous 
that it should be. When that school was established, it was somewhat 
a matter of experiment. Having female teachers in all the district 
schools, and comparatively but a small number between the ages of ten 
and sixteen who wished to attend a public High School, it was deemed 
advisable to open that school to any scholars in town over ten years of 
age. It was undoubtedly the best arrangement which could have been 
made at that time. Every year, however, since its establishment, the 
school has been increasing in numbers, and now we find it not only expe- 
dient but necessary to make some change. Thus far we have been 
embarrassed, because if we placed the terms of admission into this 
school on qualifications as well as age. we should exclude a number of 
large scholars for whom no provision was elsewhere made. But now 



Adjourned Annual Meeting^ March 16, 184(1. 203 

your Committee think the time has come for obviating this difficulty. 
In order, therefore, to make the High School what it should be to meet 
the wants of the Town, the Committee would recommend that from the 
close of the present session, none be admitted into it, who are not ten 
years of age, and who are not acquainted with certain studies, which 
your future committee may fix upon as necessary qualifications. This 
school your committee would have open to scholars of both sexes who 
may be thus qualified. To meet the wants that may he caused by 1 1 1 i — . 
arrangement, we would recommend that a well-qualified Master be 
employed to instrucl those boys over ten years of age who may not be 
qualified to enter the High Scoool. and such others as the committee 
may deem it advisable to put under his care. Ami then, as it will be 
necessary to make some provision for reducing the Dumber of scholar-, 
in the North Primary School, we would recommend that an intermediate 
school be established for girls over nine years of age whose qualifica- 
tion will not permit them to enter the High School. This school we 
would have disconnected with any other, ami under the superintendence 
of a well-qualified female. By thus establishing two intermediate 
schools, one tor males and the other for females, we think the wants of 
tin- town may lie fully met and the High School greatly elevated in char- 
acter. The question naturally arises. Where shall the new school be 
kept? To this the committee would reply, that ample accommodations 
may be furnished by finishing the rooms designed for the use of schools 
in the new Town Hall. We think it highly important that the house in 
which the High School is kept, in the centre of the town, should be devoted 
entirely to that school. There are objections, which we need not state 
here, to having the lower part of that building occupied by another 
school. We would therefore recommend that both of the intermediate 
schools lie kept for the present in the Town Hall. And as it will be 
inconvenient for the children in the upper part of the town to attend 
these schools, we would allow them to fit for admission into the High 
School, in the two district schools, until the number in these schools he 
such as to require a differenl arrangement. 

These recommendations the Committee would submit to the town. 
Leaving it for you to say whether they shall be adopted and carried into 
effect. 

Another subject to which the committee would call the attention of 
the town, is the expedience of giving to each of the primary schools, 
after the close of the present term, one more half day in each week for 
relaxation. The towns around us. nearly all of them, have two half 
days in each week for this purpose, and we think it would be of benefit, 
especially to the smaller children, should the plan be adopted in this 
Town. In some districts it would be more convenient to have no school 
on Saturday: in others, it would be preferable to have the schools sus- 
pended half of the day on each Saturday and Wednesday. In the opinion 
of your Committee this arrangement, if adopted, would add vigor to the 
minds of the small children, and secure a more punctual attendance 
during the days on which the school is kept. These are the only subjects 
which your committee would at this time suggest as requiring the action 



204 BrookUne Tovm Records. 

of the Town, and tlie.se we most respectfully submit for your considera- 
tion. Since this town, according to the graduated scale, was, the last 
year, the second in the Commonwealth in regard to the amount appro- 
priated to each child between the ages of four and sixteen, it is desirable 
that we should not be much below that in the comparative excellence of 
our schools. We labor under some disadvantages now which larger 
towns and cities do not experience. We can not arrange, divide and 
locate our schools as we would if we had a greater number of inhabitants. 
or if the number A\as more equal in the different districts. But until 
Brookline shall become a city or large town, we must endeavor to meet 
these disadvantages in the best possible manner. 

It is no trifling thing to devise plans which will be the best adapted to 
the schools of any particular town, but this generally is a much easier 
task than the carrying of the plans successfully into effect. It requires 
several good things to make even one good school, and many more to 
make all the schools in a town good. We Avant a good Committee, good 
school houses, good teachers, good government, good books, good 
scholars, good parents, and many other good things, which need not be 
enumerated here. But then, your Committee see no cause for despair, 
and much ground for encouragement, in regard to your public schools. 
With the enlightened and liberal vieAvs which Ave knoAv you entertain upon 
this subject, we are confident that as citizens you Avill devise " lib*' nil 
things" for the education of your children. In a few years Ave shall 
have all passed from the stage of action, and those for Avhom Ave now 
provide, who bear our names, and avIio will cherish our memories, are to 
succeed us. Well will it be for them and the community of which they 
may be members, if Ave can leave to them the inheritance of a good 
education and paternal counsels and examples which they can with safety 
and honor follow. In a country and under a government like ours, this 
is far a better inheritance than wealth. That Ave may leave this rich 
inheritance to our children is the desire which your Committee would 
express as they retire from the responsible office to which by your 
suffrages they Avere chosen — an ofiice whose arduous and perplexing 
duties they have unitedly and harmoniously endeavored faithfully to 
discharge. 

Respectfully Submitted, 

John Pierce, ) .. , 7 

Y\ II.LIAM II. &HAILKR. \ n 

c ,, 1 Committee. 



Special Meeting, September 7, 1846. 205 



SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 7, 1846. 



WARRANT. 

Common wealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal] 

tsEALi Norfolk, ss. ) 

Brookline. 5 To A. H. Qlapp, one of the Con- 
stables of the Town of Brookline, Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you 
are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline qualified to vote in Elections to meet at the Town 
Hall in said Town, on Monday the Seventh da}' of Septem- 
ber next, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following 
purposes, Viz. : 

First. To Choose a Moderator. 

Second. 'I'd act upon an order of notice from the County Commis- 
sioners upon the petition of Joseph II. Billings & others, for a new road 
from a point on South Street to a point near the School House on Newton 
street or to have the old road widened & straightened. 

Third. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to make an 
application to the County Commissioners to decide upon the reasonable- 
ness of a request which has been made by the Selectmen to the Boston 
and Worcester Railroad Corporation for the farther security of the 
public, by erecting a gate across the Mill Dam Road where said Railroad 
crosses, and to station an agent, &c., agreeably to the provisions of the 
80 section of the 39 chapter of the Revised Statutes. 

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon at the time and place as above named. 
Given under our hands & seals this Twenty-sixth day of 

August, A. D., 1846. 

Marshal Stearns, ~) Selectmen 
Signed, James Bartlett, > of 

H. M. Sanborn, j Brookline. 

Constable's return of the fore;/' > in;/ warrant. 
Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookline, September 5, 1846. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the said time & place 
& for the purposes within mentioned by leaving a printed notice at each 
and every house in said toAvn. 

A. H. Clapp, Constable of Brookline. 



206 Brookline Town Records. 

Transactions of the Town under the Foregoing Warrant. 
Brookline, September 7, 1846. 

Marshal Stearns was chosen Moderator. 

The subject introduced by the Second Article in the war- 
rant was taken up, and was disposed of by the following 
vote : — 

Voted, That a Committee of Five be appointed to meet 
the County Commissioners & oppose the opening of a new 
road as petitioned for by Joseph H. Billings & others, upon 
the ground that it is not wanted for the benefit or conven- 
ience of the Town of Brookline. 

The following gentlemen were chosen a committee to 
attend to that duty : 

The Three Selectmen — 

Marshal Stearns, } 

James Bartlett, > Selectmen. 

H. M. Sanborn, ) 

Samuel Philbrick. 

Jesse Bird. 
The Third Article in the warrant was taken into consider- 
ation, in regard to a gate across the Rail Road at the crossing 
on the Mill dam. It was debated at some length by several 
gentlemen both for and against it, which was finally settled 
by the following vote : 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed 
to apply to the County Commissioners to decide upon the 
reasonableness of their request which has been made to the 
Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation for the Estab- 
lishment of a gate across the Mill Dam Road at the crossing 
of said Rail Road. 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., on behalf of the committee 
appointed in January last to oppose the granting of a charter 
for any Railroad through this Town, made the following 
report : 

The committee appointed under a vote of the Town passed January 30, 
1846, to resist the petition of George R. Russell & others for a charter 
for a Railroad through the Town, respectfully report: That in per - 



General Election, November 9, 1840. 207 

formance of the duty assigned to them, they prepared & caused to be 
presented to the Legislature ;i remonstrance on the part of the town, a 
copy of which is herewith submitted. The petitions were referee! to a 
joint special Committee of the Senate & House. The hearing and argu- 
ment were attended by a sub-committee, and as the event has already 
shown, the resistance presented by this Town & the other remonstrant", 
was entirely successful. The sum expended by your committee amounts 
to $28.50. 

All of which i- respectfully submitted by 

William I. Bowditch, 

mi behalf of tin ( 'om. 
BROOKLINE, Sept. 7. 1846. 

The remonstrance will be found on file D. 

The following report was accepted, and will he found on 
tile D. 

It was Voted to choose a committee of live to draft a set 
of By Laws for the regulating the affairs of the town and 
report at a future meeting. 

Mess. William I. Bowditch, Samuel Philbrick, David R. 
Griggs, Henry I. Oliver and Artemas Newell were chosen 
to attend to that duty. 

Adjourned sine die. 

Attest: Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR NOVEMBER, 184(5. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. } 

Brookline. 5 To Elisha Stone, one of the Constables of 
the Town of Brookline, Greeting: 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
you are required to give at least seven days' notice to the 
Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline qualified to vote in 
Elections, by leaving a printed notification at the residence 
of each and every voter, to meet at the Town Hall in said 
town, on Monday the 9th day of November next, it being 
the Second Monday in said Month, at 1 o'clock in the after- 
noon, at which time and place the polls will be opened for 
the following purposes, to wit : 



208 Brookline Town Records. 

First. To determine by Vote whether the Town will send a Repre- 
sentative to the next General Court. 

Second. To bring in their Votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, Viz. : For Governor & Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 
wealth. Three Senators for the County of Norfolk, Representative to 
Congress for the Eight District, and for a Representative to the next 
General Court, if the Town so determine.. The officers above named to 
he all voted for on one ballot. 

You are also required to notify the said inhabitants of 
Brookline to meet at said Town Hall on said 9th day of 
November next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the follow- 
ing purposes, Viz. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2d. To hear and art upon a request of S. A. Walker in relation to a 
claim of the land on which the Hay Scales are located. 

3d. To see if the Town will grant the gratuitous use of the Town 
Hall for Temperance purposes. 

4th. To hear and act upon a report of the Cemetery Committee in 
relation to the purchase of a piece of land for the enlargement of the 
Cemetery lot. And to hear the reports of any other Committees that are 
prepared to report. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of meeting afore- 
said. 
Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-Sixth day of 

October, Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and 

Forty-six. 

Marshal Stearns, [seal.] 
James Bartlett, [seal.] 
H. M. Sanborn, [seal.] 

November, 184G. 

Norfolk, ss. \ 

Brookline, Nov. 2d, 1846. / By Virtue of the within warrant to me 

directed, I have notified the within named persons to appear at the time 

and place & for the purposes within expressed. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy of the warrant and return. 

Attest : Artemas Newell, Tovii Clerk. 

Brookline, November 9th, 1846. 
In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant, the polls were 
opened by the Selectmen of the town of Brookline at one 
o'clock p. m., on the said 9th day of November, for the pur- 



General Election, November 9, 1846. 209 

poses expressed in said warrant, and were kept open two 
hours, according to the laws of the Commonwealth, after 
which the question was submitted to the Town, "how much 
longer the polls should be kept open"? when it was — 

Voted, That the polls should be closed in half an hour. 

Upon sorting and counting the votes the result was found 
to be as follows, to wit. : — First, 

Voted. To send a Representative to the next General Court. 

Whole number of ballots for Governor were Two hundred and fifty-five, 
255. 
George X. Briggs of Pittsfield had One hundred and thirty-eight. 
Francis Baylies of Taunton Fifty-one. 

Isaac Davis of Worcester " Sixty-one. 

Francis Jackson of Boston " One. 
Samuel E. Sewall of Roxbury ■ Four. 

Whole number of ballots for Lieutenant Governor were Two hundred 
& Fifty- four — 254, to wit. : — 
John Reed of Yarmouth had One hundred and thirty-nine. 

Charles W. Moore of Charlestown Fifty-one. 

George Hood of Lynn Sixty-one. 

John M. Brewster of Fittstield Three. 

Whole number of ballots for Senator for the County of Norfolk were 
Two Hundred vV Fifty-two, to wit. : 

Samuel Guild of Roxbury Hue hundred & thirty-six. 

James Maguireof Randolph One hundred & thirty-seven. 

Truman Clark of Walpole One hundred & thirty-seven. 

Minot Thayer of Braintree ] 

John C. Scannnel of Bellingham leach Fifty-one. 

Ira Gill of Walpole j 

Artemas Brown of Medway Sixty-one. 

Edgar K. Whitaker of Needham Sixty-one. 

Jessie Pierce of Stoughton Sixty-one. 

Willis Fisher of Franklin ] 

Martin Torreyof Foxborough > each Three. 

John Gulliver of Roxbury J 

Whole number of ballots for Representative in Congress for the Eighth 
District were Two Hundred & Forty-Seven, to wit. : 
John Quincy Adams of Quincy One hundred Eighty-two. 
Isaac H. Wright of Roxbury Sixty-one. 
Appleton Howe of Weymouth Four. 

Whole number of ballots for Representative to General Court were Two 
hundred & fifty-two. to wit. : Necessary for a choice, 127. 
Daniel Sanderson had One hundred & five. 
Willard A. Humphrey Fifty-one. 
James Bartlett Sixty -two. 

Charles Stearns, Jnn'r Thirty-one. 
Benjamin Bradley One. 

Simon W. Clifford One. 

Willard Sears One. 

No choice of Representative, highest candidate fell short 

42 votes of a majority. 

H 



210 Brookline Town Records. 

It Avas then — 

Voted, That the subject of choosing a Representative to 
the next General Court be indefinitely postponed. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Agreeably to the notification, the meeting was called to 
order at 4 o'clock on the said 9th day of November, and was 
organized b}^ the choice of Marshall Stearns, Moderator. 

The Second Article in the warrant was called up, & after 
some explanation by Mr. Walker, by his motion the whole 
matter was indefinitely postponed. 

The Third Article in the warrant in relation to the use of 
the Town Hall gratuitously for temperance purposes, was 
disposed of by the following vote : 

Voted, That the gratuitous use of the Town Hall be 
granted for temperance lectures and other temperance pur- 
poses. 

The Fourth Article, in relation to hearing a report from 
the Cemetery Committee, was not acted upon, the Chairman 
of the Cemetery Committee, Mr. Jesse Bird, stated that the 
committee had no report to make. 

The meeting was then adjourned without day. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toivn Clerk. 



PERAMBULATION OF THE LINES BETWEEN THE TOWN OF 
BROOKLINE & THE CITY OF BOSTON. 

■'We the subscribers, the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of Boston, 
and the Selectmen of the Town of Brookline, pursuant to notice, met this 
twenty-fifth day of November, A. D. 1846, at the time and place 
appointed and run the line and renewed the bound marks between the 
City of Boston & the Town of Brookline, as follows, to wit. : 

Beginning at a stone post marked BO on the easterly side and Br. on 
the westerly side standing on the Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam, 
westerly from the new filling sluices erected in said dam (the old sluices 
referred to in the Act of February 22, 1825, entitled, An Act relative to 
the boundary lines of the City of Boston and to the Town of Brookline 
having been removed) thence running Northwesterly from said post at 
an angle of one hundred & fifteen degrees from the Mill Dam until it 
strikes the centre of the channel of Charles River, and also running from 
the said post southerly at an angle of one hundred three degrees forty- 
nine minutes until it strikes the centre of the channel of Muddv River, at 



Location of Road, November 6, 1846. 211 

a point where the respective boundaries of Boston, Brookline & Roxbury 

meet each other, being the same lines mentioned and described in the 
above recited Act. 

In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands the day & year 
first mentioned. 

Signed. Signed. 

Selectmen of Brookline. Mayor & Aldermen of Boston. 

Marshall Stearns, Josiah Qutncy, Jun., Mayor. 

James Bartlett, William Parker, 

H. M. Sanborn, Jonas Preston, 

A. Newell, Town Clerk. William Pope, 

John Hathaway, 
Frederick Gould, 
Tims. Jones, 
Charles a. Wells, 
George Head. 
a true ropy of tin- Perambulation, 

Attest : Ann. mas NEWELL, 

Town Clerk. 

Laying out <>f the road by hik County Commissioners through 
land of Caleb Craft, Samuel Hii.i. & Dr. Luther M. Harris 
in Tin: SOUTH PART OF Tin-: TOWN, Nov. 6, 1846. 

Norfolk, ss. At a meeting of the County Commissioners at Dedham, 
December term, A. 1). l s 4 1 ; . 

On the petition of Joseph II. Billings and others, presented at a meet- 
ing of the Commissioners at Dedham on the third Tuesday of April last, 
praying that a new public highway might be laid out in Brookline in 
said County, from a point on the road leading from West Roxbury to 
Brighton, at or near the house of Caleb (raft, to a point on the same 
road near the southerly school house, in said Brookline. and running 
over and upon lands of Caleb Craft. Samuel 1 1 ill and Dr. Luther M. 
Harris. — It was ordered that the Commissioners would meet at the house 
of Caleb Craft, in Brookline. on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth day of July, 
then next following, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and thence proceed 
to view the route of the road petitioned for. and then and there hear and 
act upon said petition: — and that an attested copy of the said petition. 
with the said order thereon, he served upon the Clerk of the Town of 
Brookline. thirty days, at least, before the day appointed for said meet- 
ing, and that a like copy be published three weeks successively in the 
Norfolk County American, a newspaper printed in Roxbury, in said 
County, the last publication thereof to be fourteen days, at least, before 
said day of meeting, and also that like copies be posted up in two or 
more public places in said Brookline, fourteen days at least before said 
day, that all persons and corporations interested for or against said 
petition might then and there appear and be heard if they should see fit. 
This notice was duly served and published agreeably to the aforesaid 
order, as by the officer's return on tile appears. And the Commissioners 



212 Brookline Town Records. 

afterwards met at the time and place named in tins order, at which time 
and place also met the petitioners, the Town of Brookline by their Select- 
men, and the owners of the lands on the route of said road named in 
the petition, and they thence viewed the route of said new highway 
petitioned for, and then and there partially heard each and all said 
parties concerning the matter of said petition, and thence adjourned for 
a further hearing to a meeting of the County Commissioners next to be 
held at Dedham, September term, being the fourth Tuesday of Septem- 
ber, A. 1). 1846. 

And at said September term the Commissioners again met the said 
parties agreeably to said adjournment, and then and there fully heard 
them concerning the prayer of said petition, and after said hearing did 
adjudge that common convenience and necessity required that said new- 
highway should be laid out as prayed for; and it was thereupon ordered 
i hat the ( lommissioners would meet at the house occupied by Caleb Cra ft. 
.Inn., in said Brookline, on Friday the sixth day of November then next 
following, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and thence proceed to locate 
said new highway ; — and that an attested copy of this adjudication and 
order he served upon the Clerk of said Town of Brookline, thirty days 
at least, before said sixth day of November, that a like copy be published 
three weeks successively in the Norfolk County American, a newspaper 
printed in Roxbury, in said county, the last publication thereof to be 
fourteen days, at least, before said day. and that like copies be posted in 
two or more public places in said Brookline, fourteen clays at least before 
said day, that all persons and parties interested might then and there 
appear and be heard if they should see tit. 

This notice was also duly served and published agreeably to the above 
recited order, as by the otlicer's return on tile appears, and the Commis- 
sioners, ami some of the said petitioners, land owners, & Committee of 
the Town of Brookline, met at the time and place named in said order of 
notice, and they thence proceeded to lay out and locate said new high- 
way, and did then lay out and locate the same by the courses, notes and 
bounds as follows, viz. : 

Commencing on the easterly side of the old road leading from West 
Roxbury to Brighton nearly opposite the house of Caleb Craft, at a stake 
standing about twenty feet from said old road, and thence running in 
land of said Caleb Craft North .">1° East one thousand & ninety-eight feet, 
to a ditch making the dividing line between said Craft's land & the land 
of Samuel Hill ; thence on the same course in said Hill's land one hun- 
dred and twenty-nine feet to a stake ; thence North 57° East in said Hill's 
land one hundred and forty feet and six inches to a stake; thence North 
58° East, in the same land, eighty-four feet to a stake ; thence North 
70° 13' East, in the same land, seventy-six feet to a stake by a large rock 
on the hill ; thence South 8U° 25' East, in the same land, one hundred 
and twenty-six feet and nine inches to a stake and stones; thence North 
84° 30' East, in the same land, one hundred and forty-five feet, to a 
small Hornbine tree; thence North 31° 40' East, in the same land, two 
hundred & forty-nine feet to a stake in meadow land ; thence North 30° 
East, in the same land, two hundred & fourteen feet to a ditch making 



Location of Road, November 6, 1846. 213 

the division line between said Hill's land and the land of Dr. Luther M. 
Harris: thence North 41° LO' East in said Harris' land 109 feet and three 
inches to a stake; thence North 43° 40' East, in the same land. Ninety 
feet to a Maple tree: thence on the same course, in the same land, about 
twenty-two feet to intersection of the aforenamed old road, at a point 
nearly opposite the southerly school house in Brookline. The road is 
laid on the southeasterly side of the line herein before described, and is 
forty-two feet in width throughout, excepting the two ends of the road 
at its junction with said old road, at which ends the road is more than 
forty-two feet wide. The southeasterly end connects with said old road 
by lines curving outwardly on both sides. & at, the Northeasterly end of 
said new road, the southeasterly line diverges from the Northeasterly 
line of the road before described, as follows: by a line running from 
a point opposite the .Maple Tree before named North 55° 40' East 12'.» 
feet, thence north 61° 15' East 7G feet to the old road. All the above 
described courses & distances & width of the roads will more readily 
appear on a plan thereof made by ( 'harles Whitney of Nov. 17. L846. Three 
months are allowed to the aforenamed owners of the lands over which 
the road is laid to take oil' their trees, walls & fences. & twelve months 
are allowed to said town of Brookline to work and complete said road. 
The following specifications are given as to the manner of constructing 

the road. viz. : 

The traveled part of the ro'ad is to lie made twenty-two feet in width 
in the clear, exclusive of side gutters, and when gradedtobe graveled 
with good gravel to the depth >>\' eighl inches in the centre and three 
inches at the outer edges of the same, & crowning twelve inches, the 
travel path to be in the centre of the road Limits, excepting at angles a 
at such other places or points where Ledges of rock prevent. No largi 
stones or stumps to be left within nine inches of the surface of the road 

when completed. 

Grading. 

Through all the meadow and swamp land the road to be raised three 
feet, when completed, above the natural surface. The highest part of 
the hill (by tlie great rock) in S. Hill's pasture, to he lowered three feet. 
and the hill at the angle (by the Ilornbine tree) in the same pasture to be 
lowered also three feet, and the road to be graded to an even slope each 
way from said hill so cut, to the meadow land so raised. 

Bridges. 

Stone bridges or culverts to be laid across said road at least two feet 
square in the clear, at the following places, viz. : One in Craft's meadow 
at the ditch about .">02 feet distant from the southerly end of the road ; 
one at the ditch dividing Craft's and Hill's land: one at the ditch in 
Hill's meadow; and one at the ditch between Hill's and Harris' land. 
Side railings to be put up, if found necessary, at the bridges and other 
embankments, as a protection to travellers on the road. The whole 
work to be completed in a substantial and workmanlike manner and to 
the acceptance of the Commissioners. 

To the owners of the land over which said road is laid is awarded for 
their lands taken for fencing against the road, when necessary, and for 



214 Brookline Town Records. 

all injuries to their estates, the sums set against their names respect- 
ively. For the payment of which, warrants will be drawn upon the 
County Treasury as soon as the said Town of Brookline shall have 
entered upon & taken possession of their lands for the purpose of work- 
ing said road, viz. : 

Caleb Craft was understood to claim, no damages. 

Samuel Hill. One Hundred & Twenty-five Dolls. . . . $125 

Luther M. Harris, Fifty Dollars 50 

$175 
Samukl I. Lorn, per order. 

A true copy; Attest: Ezra W.Sampson, Clerk. 

Received and entered with these records, January 12th, 
1847. 

Attest: Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 



TOWN MEETING, JAN. 28, 1847. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

January, 1847. ^ 
Norfolk, ss. > To the Constable of the Town of Brook- 
Brookline. )line, Greeting: 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, }'ou 
are directed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in Elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Town, on Thursday, the twenty-eighth 
day of January inst. , at three o'clock p. m., for the follow- 
ing purposes, to wit. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. 

2d. To act upon the petition to the Legislature of Otis Pettee and 
others to be incorporated for the purpose of making and maintaining a 
Kail Road from Boston to Worcester through Brookline. 

3d. To hear and act upon the request of S. A. Walker in relation to a 
claim of the land upon which the Hay Scales are located, and in relation 
to widening and tilling up a portion of Boylston and Washington Streets. 

4th. To hear and act upon the report of any Committee prepared to 
report. 



Special Meeting, January 28, 1847. 215 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time and place aforemen- 
tioned. 
Given under our hands and seals this twenty-third day of 

January, Anno Domini Eighteen hundred forty -seven. 

Signed, Marshal Stearns, ^ Selectmen 
" James Bartlett, > of 

jBrookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookijne, January 27th. 1847. 

Pursuant to the within Warrant, I have notified the [Inhabitants of the 
Town of Bvookline herein described to meet at said time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by Leaving a Notification at each and 
every house in said Town. 

Signed, A. II. Clapp, Constablt of Brookline. 



At Town Meeting held pursuant to foregoing Warrant, 
January 28th, 1847— 

In consequence of the absence of the Town Clerk by rea- 
son of sickness, Daniel S. Kendall was chosen Town Clerk, 
pro t< j m., for this present Town Meeting, was immediately 
qualified, the oath being administered by Thomas Griggs, 
Esq., Justice of the Piece. 

The first Article in Warrant was called up. 

Marshal Stearns chosen Moderator. 

The second Article in Warrant was called up. 

Voted, That the subject be laid on the table. 

The third Article in Warrant was called up. 
Voted, That a Committee be appointed to investigate Mr. 
Walker's claims, and report at the next March meeting. 

Voted, That the Committee consist of three. 

Voted, That the Moderator appoint said Committee. 

In pursuance of the last vote, the Moderator appointed 
William Ingersoll Bowditch, Benjamin Goddard, Samuel 
Philbrick, as a Committee. 



216 Brookline Town Records. 

The fourth Article in Warrant was called up. 

The Committee, through their Chairman, Marshal Stearns, 
appointed at a meeting of the citizens in Sept. last, to meet 
the Commissioners and oppose the laying out of a Road 
petitioned for by Joseph Billings, submitted their report, 
which was unanimously accepted. 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE AFORESAID. 

The Committee appointed at a meeting of the citizens in Sept. last, to 
meet the Commissioners and oppose the laying out of a new Road peti- 
tioned for by Joseph H. Billings and others, report : 

That a majority of said Committee met the Commissioners at Dedham, 
and agreeably to their instructions, offered such arguments as they 
thought advisable against laying out said new Road. One of which was, 
that the new Road prayed for could be of no use to the citizens of Brook- 
line as a Town, and justice would require that a portion, at least, of the 
expense should be borne by the County. Also, that the old road would 
still be liable to be indicted should the new Road be laid out, and the 
small amount of travel did not warrant the expenditure of so large a 
sum as would be necessary to make the new Road. The Committee 
understood the Commissioners to say if any petitioner should appear to 
have the old Road widened and repaired, the Town would be justified in 
taking measures to have it discontinued. Contrary to the expectations 
of your Committee, the Commissioners proceeded to lay out said new 
road, and have sent their order to the owners of the land through which 
the road passes, that three months are allowed them to remove their 
wood, fences, &c, and draw on the County Treasury for damages which 
have been awarded them. And one year is allowed to the Town to make 
and complete the road according to the specifications made by the Com- 
missioners, and to their acceptance. Your committee would recommend 
after the completion of the road, that some further action be taken in 
relation to the expense borne by the County, as they believe this to be a 
case in which the Commissioners would be justified in taxing the County 
at least one half of the expense. The committee have made inquiry of 
persons in the practice of making roads, and who have examined the 
route, the expense per rod for making and completing said road. The 
result of the inquiry is, that it will cost nearly or quite Five dollars. 

The amount for completing the road will probably require One thou- 
sand dollars, a sum which your committee would recommend, at the 
proper time, should be raised and appropriated for making and complet- 
ing said road. 

In behalf of the committee, 

Signed, Marshal Stearns, Chairman. 

After all matters contained in the Warrant issued by the 
Selectmen on the twenty-third of January, Anno Domini 
Eighteen hundred forty-seven, had been acted on, many 



Annual Meeting, March 1, 1847. 217 

legal voters having left the hall, all subjects legally before 
them being disposed of, George Griggs, Esq., offered the 
following motion, to wit. : 

" [That] The Selectmen of the Town procure copies of the 
Report of the School Committee, and of the Town Treasurer, 
to be printed in season to be distributed at the meeting in 
March for the choice of Town Officers and the Report of the 
Committee on By-Laws." 

This motion being carried, Adjourned sine die. 

Attest : D. S. Kendall, 

Toivn Clerk, pro tern. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1847. 

[9EAI..] 

i seal.; Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal. 

Norfolk, ss. ) 
Brookline. 5 To the Constahles of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Town on Monday, the first day of March 
next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place 
the polls will be opened for the following purposes, to wit. : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2d. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. 

3d. To hear and act upon the reports of the Treasurer and of any 
other Town Officers or committees that are prepared to report ; also, to 
act upon a code of By-Laws which have been printed for distribution, 
and which will be presented to the Town by a committee for their con- 
sideration. 

4th. To bring in their votes for Count}' Treasurer. 

5th. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the pur- 
pose of Macadamizing and Draining a portion of Washington Street 
through the Village. 

6th. To hear the proposal of Charles G. Colbath, in relation to the 
School House and land in the South District, and to act thereon. 



218 Brookline Town Records. 

7 th. To see if the Town Avill purchase a piece of land in the rear of 
the Town House for the purpose of enlarging the play-grounds for the 
School children, and grade, embank, and otherwise finish oft' the grounds 
in a proper manner. 

8th. To see if the Town will take measures to dig a well & provide a 
pump for the High School. 

9th. To hear the report of the Committee appointed at the last annual 
meeting, to ventilate the Town Hall, and if deemed expedient, to take 
measures to carry that object into effect. 

10th. To determine what documents, if any, shall for the future be 
printed for distribution each year previous to the Annual Town Meeting, 
and to make an appropriation for the expense of printing such as may be 
printed the present year. 

11th. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be nec- 
essary to meet the expenditures of the Town the ensuing year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
3'our doings thereon, at the time and place of the meeting 
aforesaid. 

Given under our hands and seals this eighteenth day of 
February, Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Forty-Seven. 

Marshal Stearns, } Selectmen 
James Bartlett, > of 
H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Bkooklixi:, Feb. 27th. 1847. 
By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the Avithin named 
persons by leaving a printed notice at the dwelling places of the same to 
meet at the time and place for the purposes within mentioned. 

Elisha Stone, Constable. 

A true copy of the warrant & return. 

See file E. No. 1. Attest: Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall on Mon- 
day, the first day of March, 1847. 

The meeting was organized by the choice of Marshal 
Stearns, Moderator. 

Artemas Newell was elected Town Clerk, and was imme- 
diately sworn to the faithful discharge of the duty, by the 
Moderator. 

Prayers were offered by the Rev. Doct. John Pierce. 



Annual Meeting, March 1, 1847. 219 

The report of the Treasurer & Auditing committee was 
read by the chairman of the committee, Doct. Charles AVild, 
who made some remarks, showing the importance of receiv- 
ing and (acting upon) & disposing of all reports of commit- 
tees bearing upon the performance of duties by town officers 
before proceeding to the choice of such officers ; it was there- 
upon, on motion of Dr. Wild — 

Voted, unanimously, That all the reports of Committees 
bearing upon the performance of duties by Town Officers, be 
first received & disposed of before proceeding to the choice 
of such officers. 

Voted, To accept the reports of Treasurer and Auditing 
Committee, which will be found entered with these records 
on page [221], also on file E, No. 2 & 3. 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., on behalf of the School Com- 
mittee, made a report of the condition of the Schools, &c. 
On tile E, No. 4. 

On motion of George Griggs, Esq., it was — 

Voted, To accept the report of the School Committee, and 
that Three Hundred Copies be printed for distribution in 
this town. 

Mr. Augustus Aspinwall, in behalf of the Cemetery Com- 
mittee, made a Report, which was accepted and placed on 
file E, where it may be found, and entered with these records 
on page [223]. No. 5, file E. 

Marshal Stearns, Esq., in behalf of the board of Select- 
men, reported in relation to the proceedings in regard to 
Rail Roads, State of Guide Boards, &c, which report was 
accepted & placed on file E, and will be found recorded with 
these records on page [222]. No. 6, file E. 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of three Selectmen to 
serve for the year ensuing. 

Which resulted, after Four several trials, in the choice of 

Willard A. Humphrey was chosen, but excused from serving, by vote. 

James Bartlett, ") , , c 

-r. . , , I Selectmen & overseers ot 

Daniel Sanderson, > ,, 

TJ I AT C 1 \ tlle P 001 '- 

Hiio-h M. Sanborn, } l 



220 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 
Made choice of 

Charles Stearns, Jun., ^ 
Thomas Griggs, 'Assessor: 



Royal Mcintosh, 1st, ) 



Voted, That the Treasurer shall be collector of Taxes for 
the ensuing year. 

Proceeded to ballot for Treasurer. 

Artemas Newell was chosen Treasurer and Collector for 
the ensuing year. A. N. 74; T. Griggs 49 — 123. 

Before proceeding to ballot for School Committee, the Rev. 
Doct. Pierce addressed the meeting, declining to be again 
a candidate for re-election, remarking that he had already 
served the town in that capacity for fifty years, and he 
thought his share of that duty had been done ; and he con- 
sidered that the office, as an honor, should be shared, and as 
a burden, it should be divided ; and he expressed it to be 
his most sincere desire that those who follow him may find, 
after they have served fifty years, the Schools as much 
improved from their present condition as they now are from 
the condition in which he found them fifty years ago. 

On motion of William I. Bovvditch, Esq., it was unani- 
mously — 

Voted, That the thanks of this Town be presented to the 
Rev. Doct. Pierce for his faithful and efficient services as a 
member of the School Committee during the last fifty years. 
File E, No. 18. 

The balloting for School Committee resulted in the choice 
of— 

Rev'd William H. Shailer, ~] 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick, ^ , , 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., *► ^ °Jg ee> 

George r . Homer, Esq., 

Rev'd Joseph Haven, Jun'r, J 

It was — 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn, it shall adjourn 
to Monday next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, and that 
the adjournment take place immediately after the close of 
the polls for County Treasurer. 



Annual Meeting, March 1, 1847. 221 

The Polls were opened for County Treasurer, and Sixty- 
Seven Votes were cast, all for John Bui lard, Esquire. 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth requiring Treas- 
urers of Towns to make annual report of their receipts and payments, 
and other official acts, the Treasurer would now report : 

The balance of Cash on hand at Last report was . . . $1074 04 
There has been received into the Treasury from Taxes and 

sundry resources during the year 8761 10 



Total resources for the year $9835 14 

From which has been paid by orders of the Selectmen, School 

Committee, votes of the Town, and for County Taxes . 9020 56 



Leaving a balance in the Treasury of . . . . $814 58 

A detailed account of the receipts and payments will be found on refer- 
ring to the Auditors' printed report. 

The amount of the debts due from the Town, including the interest 
computed to the first day of February, is Two Thousand One Hundred 
vV Fifty-Six dollars & Forty-Three cents, and is due to Mr. Benjamin 
Goddard & to Mr. John Goodnow. 

At the last annual Meeting, the Treasurer was directed to effect insur- 
ance on the Town House, at the Norfolk Mutual Insurance office, for the 
sum of Four Thousand Dollars, "provided it could be legally done." 
After ascertaining that it was not unusual for towns to insure their 
buildings at Mutual offices, that several Towns in this County had their 
public buildings insured at the same office, and after obtaining the 
opinion of a gentleman learned in the law, it was deemed by the Treas- 
urer that there was sufficient presumptive evidence of its legality to 
warrant the insurance being effected, which was accordingly done for 
the Term of Seven years, from the first day of April, 1846, to the first 
day of April, 1853, at a premium of one and a half per cent. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, 

Artemas Newell, Treasurer. 
Brooklixe, March 1, 1847. 

The Auditors' report was printed and distributed over the 
Town, containing a detailed account of the receipts and 
expenditures of the Town during the past year, as shown by 
the Treasurer's books, & showing the same result as the 
Treasurer's report, and will be found on file E, No. 3. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



222 Brookline Town Records. 

REPORT OF SELECTMEN. 

The undersigned, Selectmen, having been instructed at the last annual 
meeting to carry into effect certain votes of the Town in relation to 
digging wells for some of the School Houses, planting Trees, &c, also 
at the Special Town Meeting in September last to apply to the County 
Commissioners to decide upon the reasonableness of a request which 
had been made to the Boston & Worcester Rail Road Corporation to 
erect a gate, &c, across the Mill Dam road, have attended to those duties 
& would now beg leave to report. 

There has been one well dug at the North Primary School in School 
Street, one at the Town House, and one at the Middle District School 
House in Heath Street, and each provided with a good pump, and they 
Avid undoubtedly supply an abundance of good, pure water. The 
amount expended for that object is .$233.44; the appropriation for the 
same was $300. The Selectmen would recommend that the same kind of 
accommodations be provided during the coming summer for the High 
School. 

The Selectmen have caused to be planted as many forest Trees about 
the School House in School Street as was deemed expedient, until more 
of the gravel had been removed. 

Pursuant to their instructions in relation to the Railroad Gate, &c, 
the Selectmen made application to the County Commissioners, who, after 
due notice, gave the parties a hearing, at which it was shown by abund- 
ant testimony which was introduced on the part of the Town, that the 
request was not only reasonable, but that the public safety rendered it 
imperative upon the corporation to make some further provision for the 
security of travelers over said road. After the hearing before the 
Commissioners, a proposition was made by the railroad corporation, 
through their agent, to substitute a man with a Flag, instead of a gate, 
which proposition, after consulting & advising with several gentlemen 
who travel over the road, and who were interested in the result, was 
acceded to by the Selectmen, with the understanding, however, that the 
Corporation should pay all the expenses of the application and hearing, 
and that if it was desired by the Town or Selectmen hereafter, that the 
Commissioners Avould decide as thej r signified their intention, in favor of 
the request of the Selectmen, and that a gate with an agent to open & 
close it, should be established at the point in question. Agreeably to the 
proposition of the Corporation, a man was subsequently stationed at the 
crossing, whose duty it is to step out & wave his flag whenever an 
Engine passes over the road. 

Agreeably to the laws of the Commonwealth requiring Selectmen to 
make an annual report of the state of the Guide Boards in the town, the 
Selectmen would now report that there are Guide Boards in all places in 
the town where it is necessary, and that they are all up & in good order. 
The Selectmen have caused to be erected two during the past year t 
agreeably to the vote of the Town at the last annual meeting, viz., one 
at the southerly part of the Town directing to Brighton, and one near 
the residence of Charles Stearns, directing to Cambridge. 

All of Avhich is respectfully submitted. 

In behalf of the Selectmen, 

Brookline, March 1, 1847. Marshal Stearns, Chairman. 



Annual Meeting, March 1, 1847. 223 

CEMETERY COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 

The Cemetery Committee of the Town of Brookline respectfully ask 
leave to report : That they have effected sales of seven lots for inter- 
ments, and a small parcel of land in front of Mr. Warren White's lot, 
during the year, leaving Sixteen Lots undisposed of, and land sufficient 
for eight or ten more. 

The receipts of money since our lasl report have been . . $185 

Balance from last report 81 22 



Total #266 22 

The disbursements for the same period .... 28 



Leaving a balance in the Treasury of . . . $238 22 

From returns made by the sexton, it appears there have been twenty 
deaths within the Town during the year, of which number seventeen 
were interred in our cemetery. 

All which is submitted by order of the Committee, 

Brookline, March l. 1st:. Jesse Bird, Chairman. 

The meeting adjourned to Monday next, the 8th day of 
March, at 1 o'clock p. m. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Town 
Clerk forthwith issued his warrant to Constable Clapp, 
requiring him to notify all persons who had been elected to 
office, of whom an oath w 7 as required, to appear before said 
Clerk within Seven days and take the oath required to 
qualify them for the discharge of the duties of the offices to 
which they have been chosen respectively. 

March 2, 1847. Warrant on file E, No. 8. 

XORFOLK, SS. 

March 6, 1847. Then personally appeared James Bart- 
lett and Hugh M. Sanborn and took the oath required by law 
to qualify them for the discharge of their duties as Selectmen. 
Attest : Artemas Xeavell, Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Then personally appeared the several persons hereafter 
named and took the oath required by law to qualify them 
for the discharge of the duties of the several offices to which 



'.». 


Alex'r H. Clapp, 


8. 


Elisha Stone, in Town Meeting, 


10. 


Samuel A. Walker, 


12. 


J. Lyon, 


" 


Charles Smith, 


" 


Charles Smith, 


" 


Hugh M. Sanborn, 


" 


Daniel Sanderson, 




Daniel Sanderson, 


13. 


Simon W. Clifford, 


15. 


George W. Goldsmith, 


16. 


Henry W. Carr, 


17. 


Otis Withington, 


18. 


James Bartlett, 


19. 


George F. Homer, 


■• 


John W. Warren, 


22. 


Charles Stearns, .Tun., 


" 


Charles Stearns, Jon., 


28. 


Benj. Bradley, 



224 Brookline Town Records. 

they have been chosen respectively, at the times as set 
against their names. 

Mar. '.». Alex'r H. Clapp, Constable. 

Do. 
Field Driver. 

Surveyor of Wood [&] Lumber. 
Surveyor of Highways-. 
Pound Keeper. 
Surveyor of Highways. 
Selectman & Overseer of Poor. 
Surveyor of Highways. 
Surveyor of Highways. 
Do. 
Do. 
Field Driver. 
Surveyor of Highways. 
Field Driver. 
Highway Surveyor. 

Do. 
Assessor. 
Field Driver. 

Record of Oath administered to Town Officers. 
Norfolk, SS. April 3d, 1847. 

Then personally appeared Artemas Newell, and made oath that he 
would truly & faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Town Treas- 
urer for the year ensuing, and until another is chosen in his stead. 

Before me, Charles Wild, Justice of the Peace. 

Seth T. Thayer signified his acceptance to serve as a Fire Ward. 
March 10, 1847. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

George Stoddard signified his acceptance to serve as a Fire Ward. 
March 18, 1847. 

Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

March 24. Simon Warren sworn as Highway Surveyor. 

" " Simon Warren " " Field Driver. 

31. Clark L. Haynes " " Field Driver. 

" Clark L. Haynes " " Fence Viewer. 

April 5. Elisha Stone " " Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 

" A. H. Clapp " " Field Driver. 

" Thomas Griggs " " Assessor. 

" Caleb Clark " " Fence Viewer. 

J. Davenport signified his acceptance to serve as a Fire Ward. April 

5, 1847. 

Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 8, 1847. 225 



April 5. Franklin Tukey sworn as Constable. 

7. Charles D. Perry " •• " 

10. Thadeus J. Townsend " " " 

13. Chauncy Woodward •• " Field Driver. 

May 1. Charles Stearns, Jim. " " Assessor. 

Thomas Griggs •• •• Do. 

Roval Mcintosh " Do. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, 1847. 

Pursuant to the adjournment on the first inst., the inhab- 
itants of the Town of Brookline assembled for the purpose 
of attending to the unfinished business of the town that 
might come legally before them. 

The meeting was called- to order by the Moderator, Mr. 
Marshal Stearns, and proceeded to the choice of such officers 
as were not chosen on the first inst. 

The following persons were chosen Prudential Committee 
for the ensuing year, viz. : 

Charles Stearns, Jun'r, for North District") p , . . 
George W. Stearns. •• Middle " \ £ lucleutiai 
Simon W.Clifford, - South - J Committee. 

Highway Surveyors were chosen as follows, to wit : 



1. 


Charles Stearns, Jun. 


. Harvard 


Street 


District 


2. 


James Bartlett . 


Washington - ; 


•• 


3. 


Henry W. Carr, 


Walnut 


" 


■■ 


i. 


John W. Warren 


Warren 






5. 


Charles Smith. 


Heath 


" 


•• 


6. 


George W. Goldsmith, 


Clyde 


" 


•• 


7. 


Simon W. Clifford, 


Newton 


•• 


" 


8. 


Simon Warren, 


Boylston 


" 


Western 


9. 


Daniel Sanderson, 


Brighton 


•• 




10. 


Hugh M. Sanborn, 


Boylston 


•• 


Eastern 



Voted, To choose three Fire Wards. 

Made choice of George Stoddard, Seth T. Thayer, Jerath- 
mael Davenport, Fire Wards. 

15 



226 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To choose two Fence Viewers. 

Caleb Clark & Clark L. Haynes were chosen Fence 
Viewers. 

Pound Keeper — Charles Smith. 

Voted, To choose four Constables for the ensuing year. 

Elisha Stone, A. H. Clapp, Charles Smith (declined), 
Willard A. Humphrey (declined), were chosen Constables. 
Elisha Stone was forthwith sworn by the Town Clerk. 

Voted, To choose Twelve Field Drivers. 

The following named persons were chosen : 

s. George V. Homer, George Griggs, 

s. Samuel A. "Walker, s. Capt. Benj. Bradley. 

Thomas C. Quimby, s. Simon Warren, 

Samuel Philbrick, s. Otis Withington, 
William Perry Hiram R. Bean, Declined. 

s. Clark L. Haynes, A. H. Clapp. s. 

Committee on Town Accounts, three — Dr. Charles Wild, 
Elijah Corey & Abijah W. Goddard. 

Voted, To choose a Cemetery Committee of three, by 
nomination. 

Jesse Bird, Augustus Aspinwall & Harmon Fay. 

Surveyors of Wood & Lumber — Elisha Stone & Jeremiah 
Lyon. 

Norfolk, ss. March 9, 1847. 

The Town Clerk issued his Warrant forthwith to Consta- 
ble Clapp, requiring him to notify the above named persons, 
who are required by law to take an oath of office, to appear 
within Seven days before the Town Clerk for that purpose. 
Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Samuel Philbrick, in behalf of the Committee, or a Major- 
ity of the Committee, upon the claims of Samuel A. Walker, 
made a report as follows, to wit : 

The Committee appointed by the Town of Brookline, at their meeting 
in January last, to hear and consider the petition of Samuel A. Walker 
and report thereon, have given him a full hearing on the subject of said 
petition. From which it appears that said Walker is desirous of pre- 
paring for building lots a parcel of meadow land recently purchased 
from the White estate, situated ou the corner of Boylston & Washington 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 8, 1847. 227 

Streets : and in aid of this object, said Walker requests the Town to 
remove the bank wall on Boylston Street, and to the line of said Walker's 
land, & to fill up and raise the intervening strip of land to a level with 
the present travelled part of said street. Also to widen the present 
travelled part of Washington Street by building a new wall on the line 
of said Walker's meadow, and laying a bridge over the water course or 
brook now running between the front line of said meadow & the brook 
wall supporting the present elevation of the travelled part of said street. 
After a fall consideration of the subject & a particular examination of 
the street opposite the s'd meadow land, your committee have not been 
able to discover any deficiency in the width of the travelled part of s'd 
street for affording ample accommodations & convenience to the public 
travel. 

The present width of Boylston Street from the railing on s'd bank 
Avail to the fence on the other side being in the narrowest place about 
50 feet, of which 38 feet have been graded for travelling and a water 
course, while the same street between Cypress St. & Walley's hill, for a 
distance of two hundred paces, is only twenty-eight feet in width 
between the railings. 

The width of Washington Street opposite s'd Walker's Meadow, 
between the bank wall on the western side and the fence on the eastern 
side, is 5<J feet, and the length of the present water course or brook run- 
ning on said street, between the bank wall & the line of said meadow to 
the stone bridge, is about 95 feet, over which a stone bridge will be 
required if said petition be granted. 

Your committee are therefore unable to perceive either the necessity or 
expediency of granting said petition, which would require an expenditure 
of several hundred dollars without any adequate public benefit. 

Brooklim:, March 1, 1847. Signed, Benj. Goddard, 

Samuel Phiiybrick. 

Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., from the committee to examine 
into the claims of Mr. S. A. Walker, made a minority 
report, in which he dissented entirely from opinions expressed 
in the foregoing report by the majority, and urged upon the 
Town the justice of granting Mr. Walker's petition. 

The minority report was accepted, but the principles and 
opinions therein contained were not adopted. The report 
will be found on file E, No. 10. 

After considerable debate upon the subject matter of the 
two reports, it was settled by the passage of the following 
vote : 

Voted, That the opinions expressed in the report of the 
majority of the committee on the petition of Samuel A. 
Walker be adopted. 



228 BrooMine Toion Records. 

The report will be found on tile E, No. 9 ; also entered 
on [226] page. 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., for the committee on By-Laws 
reported as follows : 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS. 
The committee appointed to draft a code of By-Laws respectfully 
submit the following as the result of their deliberations : 

Our aim has been to prepare every by-law which we thought would be 
considered important by any considerable number of the inhabitants, 
leaving it with the Town, in the exercise of its deliberate judgment, to 
adopt the report, or to reject such part of it, or to make addition to or 
alteration in it, as might seem best. 

We recommend the appropriation of $11 to meet the expense of copy- 
ing the report and of printing three hundred copies of it for distribution. 
Respectfully, in behalf of the Committee, 

William I. Bowditch. 

It was Voted, That the report of the committee on By-Laws 
be accepted, and the sum of eleven dollars, as recommended 
to defray the expense of printing, &c, be appropriated for 
that purpose. File E, No. 11. 

Voted, That the code of By-Laws, as prepared by the 
committee, be now taken up by sections and acted upon 
separately, accepting, rejecting or amending them, as may 
be deemed expedient. 

The By-laws were accordingly subjected to a careful and 
critical examination, section by section, by the whole town, 
accepting some sections, rejecting some, and amending 
others, and were finally adopted as a whole as amended, and 
it was — 

Voted, That the By-laws as amended be recommitted to 
the committee, that they may be laid before the Court of 
Common Pleas, and published in a newspaper according to 
law, and, when completed, that a sufficient number be printed, 
that each family in the Town may have a copy. 

The By-laws as approved by the court are recorded on 
page [241]. 

The 5th Article in the warrant was taken up, in relation to 
macadamizing Washington Street. 

On Motion of Samuel Goddard, Esq., it was — 

Voted, That a sum of not exceeding Three Hundred Dol- 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 8, 1847. 229 

lars be appropriated & placed in the hands of the Selectmen 
for the purpose of Macadamizing and draining Washington 
Street, through the village, in a proper manner, commenc- 
ing at the bridge near the residence of Mrs. Morril and end- 
ing at Roxbury line. See file E, No. 14. 

The 6th Article came up for consideration, in relation to 
the School House in Newton Street. Mr. Charles G. Col- 
bath made some remarks in relation to the state of repair 
in which the School House is in, &c, and it was — 

Voted, The Selectmen be a committee to examine the 
whole matter, & report at the adjourned Meeting on first 
Monday in April next. See file E, No. 17. 

The 7th Article in the warrant was taken up and disposed 
of by the following vote : 

Vofed, That a committee of three be chosen to examine 
into the subject of purchasing land & grading the banks, &c, 
about Town House, and report at the adjourned meeting on 
first Mondav of April next. 

Samuel Philbrick, Seth T. Thayer & Abijah \Y. Goddard 
were chosen to attend to that duty. 

Voted, That the sum of One Hundred & Fifty Dollars be 
appropriated and placed at the disposal of the Selectmen for 
the purpose of digging a well & providing a pump for the 
High School. 

Article 9 of Warrant, in relation to ventilation of Town 
Hall, &c. 

Samuel Philbrick, in behalf of tire committee for venti- 
lating the Town Hall, &c., reported as follows. See file E, 
No. 12. 

The committee appointed by the Town at their last annual meeting in 

March last, -with instructions to provide desks and seats for two school 

rooms in the Town House, have attended to that service, and accordingly 

both rooms were in readiness for opening schools at the beginning of 

the school term in May following. Your committee were also requested 

to take such measures for ventilating the Town Hall as they might deem 

expedient. But hitherto the subject of ventilation having been attended 

with so many practical difficulties, your committee fearing they might 

do more injury than benefit to the Hall by introducing the usual modes 

of ventilation, have omitted the attempt, and now respectfully ask a 

discharge. 

Sam'l Philbrick, 

Bhooklink, March 1, 1847. For the Com. 



230 BrooMine Town Records. 

Voted, To accept the report and discharge the committee. 

Voted, That a committee be appointed, to consist of three, 
to take measures to ventilate the Town Hall and all the 
School Rooms in the Town in such a manner as may be 
deemed expedient that will effect the object, and that iive 
hundred dollars be appropriated for that purpose. 

George Griffsrs, John F. Edwards & Willard Sears were 
chosen to carry the object of ventilation into effect. 

Voted, That one hundred dollars be appropriated for the 
purpose of introducing music into the two intermediate 
schools. 

Voted, That the sum of Nine Thousand Dollars be raised 
by Taxes, to be lawfully assessed, for defraying the expenses 
of the town the present year, to be applied to the several 
purposes named in the following estimate, to wit : 

For the support of Poor $1000 

County Taxes 600 

Support of Schools 2900 

Music in Schools 100 

Repairs of Highways 1200 

Expenses of Fire Engine 500 

Assessing & Collecting Taxes 350 

Abatement of Taxes 250 

Town Officers 250 

Repairs of buildings & fuel 200 

Well for High School • 150 

New Road 1000 

Interest on debt 150 

For Ventilating Town Halls & Schools 500 

" Macadamizing Wash. Street ...... 300 

" Contingencies 500 

$9950 
To be deducted : Balance on hand . . $814 58) 

Income from Scales. 6cc. . . 135 42 i 950 

To be raised by Tax, as above $9000 

Addition : April 5. Repairs on South School House 200 ] 

" Widening Heath Street 100 I .„- 
April 12. Repairs of Newton Street 100 [ 

" " To build a Lock-up 75 J 

To be raised by Taxes $9475 

On Motion of Samuel A. Walker it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed 
to prosecute all violations of the License Laws in the Town 
of Brookline. See file E, No. 15. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 8, 1847. 231 

Article 10 in the warrant was taken up and disposed of 
by the following vote : 

Voted, That for the future the Auditors' report be printed 
each year for distribution before the Annual Town Meeting, 
and that an appropriation be made of a sufficient sum to 
defray the expense of preparing, printing & circulating such 
documents as are or may be printed the present year, to be 
taken from any unappropriated funds in the Treasury. 

Voted, That the sum appropriated for repair of highways 
the present year be assessed in same manner as all other 
appropriations are assessed in this Town, & collected into 
the Town Treasury with other taxes ; and that each highway 
surveyor be allowed to draw from the Treasury the propor- 
tion heretofore allowed the district over which he is appoint- 
ed, whenever the Selectmen shall approve his bill of expend- 
itures. See file E, No. 16. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be hereby authorized to borrow 
a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, if necessary, to 
pay the expenses of the Town until the Taxes are paid. 

The residents and owners of land on Heath Street made a 
written request that the town would take some effectual 
measures to widen and thoroughly repair said Street. Re- 
quest will be found on file E, No. 13. 

It was Voted, That a committee of three be chosen to 
examine into the matter and report at the adjourned meet- 
ing, April 5, 1847. 

Royal Mcintosh, D. Sanderson & A. W. Goddard were 
chosen to attend to that duty. 

Voted, To adjourn to the first Monday in April, at 4 
o'clock P. M. 

Attest : A. Newell, T. C. 



232 BrooMine Town Records. 



SECOND ADJOURNMENT OF THE ANNUAL 
MEETING, 1847. 

April 5, 1847. Agreeably to the adjournment of An- 
nual Meeting, the inhabitants met for the purpose of filling 
any vacancies that might exist in Town Officers, and to hear 
the reports of committees that were appointed to examine 
into sundry matters and report thereon, and to attend to any 
other business that might come legally before the meeting. 

The meeting was called to order by the moderator, Mr. 
Marshal Stearns. 

The Town Clerk reported the names of all those who had 
been elected to office that had not been qualified by taking 
the oath required by law, and of those who had declined to 
serve in the office to which they had been chosen. 

Thomas C. Quimby, Samuel Philbrick, William Perry 
and George Griggs were excused by the passage of the 
following vote — they had not been sworn : 

Voted, That the vote passed at the meeting on the 8th 
March "to choose Twelve Field Drivers " be reconsidered, 
and that the number of Field Drivers for the ensuing year 
should be eight, and that those who had not been sworn be 
excused from serving. 

Hiram R. Bean declined to serve as Field Driver and was 
excused, and Chauncy Woodward was chosen in his stead 
as Field Driver. 

Charles Smith and Willard A. Humphrey declined to serve 
as constables, and were excused. It was — 

Voted, To add two constables to the number already 
chosen, making the whole number for the ensuing year six. 

Made choice of Charles D. Perry, Franklin Tukey, John 
W. Warren, Thadeus J. Townsend, Constables. 

The following report of the Selectmen was made by Mr. 

Bartlett : 

REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN. 

At the last Town Meeting - , on the 8th of March, the Selectmen were 
appointed a committee to examine into the proposition of Mr. Charles G. 
Colbath, and all matters connected therewith, in relation to the Newton 



Adjourned Animal Meeting, April 5, 1847. 233 

Street School House, and to report at the adjourned meeting on the first 
Monday in April. The Selectmen having given the subject their atten- 
tion, -would now report : 

That the proposition of Mr. Colbatb was in substance as follows : That 
he -would convey to the Town a small piece of land in the rear of the 
School House, provided the Town would move the School House back, 
turn it around side to the road, fence the land, and otherwise fit up the 
house and grounds as lie might direct. It was deemed by the Selectmen, 
after due consideration, that it would not be for the best interest of the 
Town to accept of the said proposal of Mr. Colbath. 

The Selectmen, after an examination of the premises, would however 
reccommend thai said School House should be repaired. Some portion 
of the roof requires to be shingled immediately, the floor requires to be 
new laid, seats and benches to be altered and repaired, a new outside 
door made, a small shed built for the fuel, the grounds about the house 
levelled off, and the whole enclosed with a fence, and such other repairs 
and alterations made a> may be found necessary to put it in good repair. 
and make it comfortable and convenient for the School: and would rec- 
ommend that the sum of Two Hundred Dollars be granted and appro- 
priated for that purpose. 

For t he Selectmen, 

Brookline, April .">. 1847. James Bartlett, Chairman. 

Voted, To accept the above report, and to grant and 
appropriate the said sum of Two Hundred Dollars to carry 
into effect the objects therein recommended. See tile E, 
No. 21. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Royal Mcintosh, for the committee chosen to examine and 
report in relation to widening Heath Street, made the follow- 
ing report : 

The Committee appointed by the Town to act on the requesl of Mark 
W. Sheafe and others, proprietors of lands on Heath Street, have 
attended to that duty, and respectfully ask leave to report : 

On examining and measuring some parts of the road, the committee 
found it to be less than one rod and a half wide, it being altogether too 
narrow for the convenience of carriages to pass safely, and the commit- 
tee unanimously recommend that this part of the road be widened by 
taking so much of the land belonging to the heirs of the late Benj. White 
as to make the road two rods wide for a distance of about fifteen rods, 
being that part of the road lying east of the residence of Samuel Towns- 
end, on the northerly side of said road, commencing at a stake near the 
bars and running westerly as staked by the committee. 

The committee would recommend that the sum of One Hundred Dol- 
lars be raised by the Town to defray the expenses of the proposed 
improvement. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

linVAI. McIntosh, 

See file E, No. 22. In behalf of the Committee. 



234 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To accept the report of the committee as above, 
and to grant and appropriate One Hundred Dollars, to be 
placed in the hands of the committee for the purpose named 
in the report. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toivn Clerk. 

George W. Stearns declined to serve as Prudential School 
Committee in the Middle District. 

Mark W. Sheafe was chosen Prudential Committee in 
room of G. W. Stearns, declined. 

S. Philbrick, chairman of the committee on purchasing- 
land about the Town House, reported as follows, to wit : 

The committee appointed by the Town of Brookline at the adjourn- 
ment of their annual meeting in March to consider and report upon the 
subject of purchasinii'. for the use of the town, a piece of land in the 
rear of the Town House, have attended to that business and have ob- 
tained of Harrison Fay the refusal at six cents per scpiare foot of a lot 
of land lying between the Town's land on School Street- and a court 
running back from Harvard Street, bounding southwesterly on land of 
the late Mrs. Dana, and southerly in part on lands of the heirs of James 
Leeds, Esq.. and in part on said court, containing 68450 feet, — being two 
lots as laid down oh the plan of Alexander Wadsworth, & numbered 23 
& 27 on said plan, which at price above named will amount to 4107 Dolls. 
The land adjoining the Town House lot in the rear cannot be purchased 
short of eleven cents per foot, which was deemed too unreasonably high 
to claim their consideration. 

When the land on which the Town House stands Avas purchased of 
James Bartlett there was an explicit & distinct understanding between 
the contracting parties that the Town, after having possession of said 
land intended to cause the removal of the gravel from its whole surface 
down to a convenient level for the accommodation of a Town House, 
and James Bartlett who owned the land adjoining in the rear offered no 
objection to having the gravel so removed back to the line of division 
and down to a level surface. Your committee therefore are of opinion 
that in justice, law and equity the town have a right to remove said 
gravel back to the rear line of their land and down to a level with the 
present grade of the yard around the Town House: and they accordingly 
recommend the passing of the annexed resolution authorizing its removal 
by the board of Selectmen. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

For the committee, 

Samuel Philbrick, Chairman. 

Brooklinee, April 5, 1847. 

The Resolution was not passed, and is not matter of 
record, but may be found on File E, No. 23. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town CVk. 



Special Meeting, April 5, 1847. 235 

The question upon the acceptance of the report of the 
committee upon the subject of the purchase of land was 
acted upon, and it was voted to accept it. 

The passage of the resolution to instruct the Selectmen 
to remove the gravel from the Town Bank came up for con- 
sideration, and after a long debate it was voted, 18 to 16, 
not to pass it. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be hereby authorized to borrow 
a further sum of not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Dollars in 
anticipation of the payment of the Taxes, if necessary to 
meet the demands upon the Treasury for the expenditures 
of the Town. 

Voted, on motion of S. Philbrick, That the Selectmen be 
hereby instructed to forthwith see Mr. H. Fay, and if they 
can get the refusal of his land (described in the report of 
the committee, on page [234],) at the same price at which it 
was offered to the committee, to immediately call a Town 
Meeting to act thereon. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 



APRIL MEETING FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 
seal.i Norfolk, ss. ) To the Constables of the Town of 

SEAL.] r- 

seal.] Brookline. ) Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, } r ou 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to 
bring in to the Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said town, 
on the first Monday of April next, it being the fifth day of 
said month, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at which time 
and place the Polls will be opened, their votes for three 
County Commissioners and two special Commissioners for 
the County of Norfolk, being all inhabitants of different 
towns within said county, to serve for the term of three 
years and until others shall be chosen in their stead. 



236 Brookline Town Records. 

Given under our Hands and Seals this Twenty-Fifth day of 
March, Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Forty-Seven. File E, 25. 

James Bartlett, ~) Selectmen 

Daniel Sanderson, > of 

H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 



Norfolk, ss. \ April 1, 1847. Pursuant to the within warrant I have 

Brookline. J notified the Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline 

herein described to meet at such time and place and for the purposes 

within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice to each and every house in 

said Town. 

A. H. Clapp, Constable. 

A true copy of the Warrant and return. 

Attest: Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 

Agreeably to the above warrant the Polls were opened by 
the Selectmen for the purposes therein expressed, and 
remained open about two hours and a quarter when the 
polls were closed and the results found to be as follows : — 

Whole number of Ballots for County Commissioners, Fifty One. 



Samuel P. Lord 




of Dorchester 


had Thirty Eight. 


38 


James C. Doane 




of Cohassel 


" Thirty Eight. 


38 


Nathan Jones 




of Med way 


" Forty Two. 


42 


Aaron Prescott 




" Randolph 


" Thirteen. 


13 


Fisher A. Kingsbury 




•• Weymouth 


" Thirteen. 


13 


Joseph Hawes 




'• Walpole 


" Nine. 


9 


ole number of ballots 


for 


Special Commissioners. Fifty One. 




Timothy P. Whitney 




of Wrentham 


Thirty Eight. 


38 


John J. Lowe 




" Roxbury 


Thirty Two. 


32 


Laban Souther 




" Cohasset 


Thirteen. 


13 


Michael Whittemore, 


Jun 


. " Roxbury 


Thirteen. 


13 


Abraham F. Howe 




" Roxbury 


Four. 


4 


Artemas Newell 




" Brookline 


Two. 


2 



The votes were sorted and counted by the Selectmen and 
Town Clerk, the returns were signed by the Selectmen and 
Town Clerk, and sealed up with the Town seal in open 
Town Meeting. 

Adjourned Sine die. 

Attest : Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, April 12, 1847. 237 



SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 12, 1847. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. ) 
Brookline. 5 To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline, qualified to vote in Elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Town, on Monday the 12th day of April 
inst., at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following 
purposes, viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see if tin; Town will purchase a piece of land of Mr. Har- 
rison Fay, for the purpose of obtaining gravel for the use of the Town, 
upon the same terni> at which it was offered t<> a committee of the town 
who were chosen to investigate ami report upon the subject of purchas- 
ing laud about the Town House, 

Third. To see if the Town \\ ill granl and appropriate a sum of money 
not exceeding One Hundred Dollars for the purpose of filling up and 
widening the travelled part of a portion of Newton Street between Clyde 
Street and Roxbury line. 

Fourth. To see if the Town will grant and appropriate Seventy-Five 
dollars to finish a room under the Town Hall for a lock-up for prisoners 
that may be taken by the Constables. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of the above 
notified meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals this fifth day of April, 
A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty-seven. 
See file E, No. 26. 

James Bartlett, ^ /Selectmen 
Daniel Sanderson, > of 
H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. \ 

Brookline. j April 7, 1847. In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, 
I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Brookline qualified to vote 
in elections, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein 
expressed. 

Franklin Tukey, Constable of Brookline. 



238 Brookline Toivn Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall, April 12, 
1847. 

Marshal Stearns was chosen Moderator. 

The second article in the warrant came up for considera- 
tion, relative to the purchase of land. 

Daniel Sanderson, on behalf of the Selectmen, stated that 
the Selectmen had received of Mr. Fay the refusal of the 
piece of land offered to the committee referred to in the 
warrant upon the same terms, viz., six cents per foot. 

The following vote was then passed after some discussion : 

Voted, That the Selectmen be hereby authorized to pur- 
chase the Two Lots of land offered to the Town by Harrison 
Fay, containing, according to the plan, 68,450 feet, at six 
cents per foot, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized to 
give his note on behalf of the Town for the amount of said 
land. 

The subject of making an appropriation for the repairs of 
Newton Street, under the Third Article in the warrant, next 
was taken up, and after some discussion it was — 

Voted, That a further sum of not exceeding One Hundred 
Dollars be placed at the disposal of the Selectmen for the 
purpose of repairing Newton Street, the same to be granted 
and appropriated hereby. 

Voted, That the sum of Seventy-five dollars be hereby 
granted and appropriated for the purpose of building a 
Lock-up under the Town Hall, and that the Selectmen be 
hereby instructed to carry the same into effect. 

Voted, That the sum of One Hundred Dollars from the 
amount appropriated at the Annual Meeting for repairs of 
highways, be placed at the disposal of the Selectmen, to be 
by them appropriated for that purpose in such parts of the 
Town as they may deem expedient. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 



Militia List, 1847. 



239 



Militia Boll for 1847. 



Fernald Butler 
[saac Dearborn 
Henry Warren 
Francis Wilbur 
Franklin Morse 
David A. Griggs 
Thomas Rankin 
Daniel Hyde 
Daniel Sanderson, Jun. 
Albert Sanderson 
( reorge Murdock 
James H. Parks 
David S. Coolidge 
Charles Coolidge 
Frederick Harry man 
Willard Jackson 
William J. Griggs 
John Mills 
John B. Libby 
Morril S. Bean 
Charles Whittemore 
Orange Buck 
Charles Pope 
James Hobbs 
Simon Herson 
Hansom ST. Weld 
Alfred Page 

Chandler 
Charles D. Perry 
Ivory Boss 
Oliver Cousens 
Isaac R. Atwood 
Benj. F. Baker 
John Park 
Jon'n D. Long 
Jason H. Bickford 
Geo. F. Homer 

D. H. Rogers 
David Wilder, Jun. 
Thomas Seaverus 
Hezekiah Shatter 
George Stoddard 
William Sued 

E. C. Emerson 
E. R. Secomb 
Lewis Colburn 
Stephen R. Griggs 



Joseph L. Stackpole 

Freeman R. Howe 
John Gustin 
Henry Foale 
William Stook 
David Young 
Calvin Smith 
Reuben Wyman 
Thos. Wentworth 
Benj'n Young 
Amos R. Binney 
Homer Binney 
Sylvester Kimball 
Hazen Bradbury 
Alfred Wansor 
John Webb 
Win. C. Cunningham 
Luther Sea\ erns 
Joseph Hurt" 
Watson Saunders 
Nath. Sawyer 
John Frazer 
Augustus Allen 
John A. Bailey 
William Hardy 
James M. [ngalls 
Joseph Silver 
Johu C. Piper 
A. H. Lambert 
Joshua F. Pray 
Hiram Jones 
W. K. Melcher 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
James M. Seamans 
A. W. Seamans 
Charles Lord 
John Dustin 
Marshal Glagier 
Ansel Waterman 
Charles Staples 
G. C. George 
G. B. George 
George Atkinson 
Stephen Blanchard 
Edward Atkinson 
John Carmody 
Charles J. Higginsou 



James Morse 
Ab'm C. Small 
Ed'd Waketield 
Charles L. Palmer 
Horace Cousens 
Charles J. Morrill 
Dennis Colburn 
James San ford 
Nathan Sanford 
Peter W. Fierce 
James M. Edwards 
James Roacb 
Charles W. Tolman 
James Edmond 
Ellis Austin 
John Kenrick 
Edward A. Wild 
Willard Sears 
George Colburn 
Samuel Barker 
Joseph Parsons 
A. B. Allard 
Thomas Allard 
Isaac Allard 
Henry Poor 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Henry Hills 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Moses Withington 
William II. Dow 
Francis H. Corey 
Charles Bartlett 
Lafayette Follett 
Mark Piper 
Samuel Carpenter 
Geo. F. Bartlett 
Amos Whittemore 
Woodbury Kennister 
Timothy Corey 
William A. Willard 
Francis Ward 
Geo. W. Patten 
F. A. Heath 
Charles Heath 
Aaron D. Fairbank 
Charles Smith 
William Douglass 



240 



Brookline Town Records. 



Charles W. Scudder 
John N. Turner 
Francis A. Fabins 
Benj. Bradley (Lin'n pi.) 
Isaac Rich 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Joseph S. Bacon 
( harles B. Dana 
David Bryant 
Nathaniel Lyford 
Geo. S. Crashing 
William W. Clement 
J. Branford 
P. T. Gillett 
Charles True 
Franklin Tukey 
Oliver B. Delano 
Ephraim Church 
Mark F. Wiggin 
Elkana Foss 
Stephen Foss 
Daniel Koberts 
James Tuttle 
Miron Lewis 
Geo. A. Hall 
John E. Brown 
Francis McKenny 
Harry Taber 
Samuel Clark 
John A. Bird 
Jer'h Veazie 
Hiram Cushman 
Daniel A. Oliver 
William A. Morse 
Henry W. Carr 
Geo. Griggs 
William Bird 
George D. Austin 
Charles Craft 
Thomas N. Woodward 
Chauncy Woodward 



John A. Higginson 
John H. Webber 
Joseph Little 
Theodore Lovett 
Andrew H. Newell 
Henry Mann 
Oliver Whyte 
Daniel S. Kendall 
Timothy Conant 
Augustine ShurtlerT 
Clark L. Haynes 
Isaac Brown 
Ozias M. Page 
R. Mcintosh, 2d 
Edwin Page 
Benj. N. Jewett 
David Whitney 
Aaron Whitney 
Moses R. Brown 
Madison Mcintosh 
Henry Whitney 
Thomas Pettengill 
Geo. W. Stearns 
Samuel Town send, Jun 
Alfred Robie 
Willard A. Humphrey 
Samuel K. Philbrick 
Eussel T. Bean 
Willard P. Brewer 
Parker Ellis 
John Maloon 
E. T. Penniman 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Eben'r Eeecl 
Lorenzo Willis 
Charles A. Rice 
W. W. Field 
Simon Warren 
Nathaniel Haley 
Thaxter Prouty 
George W. Goodnough 



Samuel Pulsifer 
Thadens J. Townsend 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Davicl Barry 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Joseph Gutterson 
William Sanderson 
John W. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Daniel Butters 
James S. Amory 
N. W. Brackett 
William Bell 
Edward N. Perkins 
George Perry 
Caleb Kenrick 
Charles D. Head 
Uriah Blaisdell 
Samuel G. Snelling 
Henry Weeks 
Samuel Eliot 
James Henry Parks 
Janthus I. Rolfe 
Jothn. Pray 
James Sanderson 
John Carleton 
Hiram Waldron 
William J. Hyde 
Joseph Allen 
Nathaniel Wormed 
Stephen Wing 
Hiram R. Bean 
Simon W. Clifford 
Charles Colbath 
Nathaniel Brown 
Joseph Aket 
George Craft 
Thomas Townsend 
George Hancock 



264 



Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



By-Laws of the Town of Brookline. 241 

BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE, 

As adopted by said town on the 8th day of April [March], 
1847, as will appear on these records, page [228], and ap- 
proved by the Court of Common Pleas, April 26, 1847, and 
published in a newspaper called the Norfolk County 
American, printed in said County, three weeks successively, 
to wit: June 5th, 12th & 19th, 1847 : 

Financial Concerns <>k the Town. 

Section 1. The financial year shall begin on the firsl day of Febru- 
ary and end on the thirty-firsl day of January, and it shall be observed 
in all eases by all persons in making and settling contracts for the Town. 

Section 2. No bills of any kind shall be paid by the Town Treasurer, 
unless contracted in pursuance of a vote of the Town, or unless the 
same shall have been previously approved by the Selectmen, the School 
Committee, or some other committee duly authorized by a vote of the 
Town to contract on behalf of the Town. 

Section 3. All bills for the support of schools, and all claims for the 
support of Paupers, shall be presented to the Treasurer and paid quar- 
terly, viz.: on the tirst .Monday of May. August, November >S: February. 

Notification of Town Meetings. 

Section 1. Printed notifications of all Town Meetings shall be left at 
the place of residence of every legal voter in the Town, at least four 
days before the day upon which the meeting is to be held; except in 
cases of receipt by the Selectmen of orders of notices from the Legisla- 
ture, or other bodies, when, in the judgment of the Selectmen, a shorter 
notice will be sufficient. 

Section 2. The notifications shall in all cases contain an ennumeration 
of all the subjects specified in the warrant. 

Conveyances of Town Pkopebty. 

Section 1. The Town Clerk, under the direction of the Selectmen, is 
forthwith to cause to be prepared a common seal for the use of the Town. 

Section 2. All conveyances under seal which may hereafter be executed 
on behalf of the Town, or otherwise, shall be sealed with such common 
seal and subscribed by the whole board of Selectmen for the time being. 

Section 3. The Town Clerk shall keep a true copy (in a Book to be 
kept for such purpose alone,) of all deeds, or other instruments executed 
by the Selectmen, in accordance with the provisions of this By-Law. 

Taxes. 

Section 1. All taxes shall be assessed iu the month of May in each 
year, and the tax bills shall be delivered as soon as the assessment is 
completed. 
16 



242 Brookline Town Records. 

Section 2. The taxes of all persons upon whom a poll tax only is as- 
sessed, shall be paid on or before the Twentieth of June, in each year. All 
other taxes shall be paid on or before the first day of October, in each year. 

Section ?>. The Assessors shall keep a record of all abatements of 
taxes, the names of parties taxed, and the reasons for, and amount of 
abatement. 

Section 4. In all cases where tax bills are not paid at the time speci- 
fied in the second section, it shall be the duty of the collector forthwith to 
issue a summons to each delinquent, and if such delinquent do not pay 
the amount of his tax within ten days after the issuing of the summons, 
with twenty cents more for the summons, the collector shall issue his 
warrant to an officer, who shall forthwith proceed to collect the amount 
due, in manner provided by law. Six per cent interest shall be charged 
on all tax bills from the time they respectively become due until paid. 

The Engine Company. 

Section 1. Until otherwise provided, there shall be one engine com- 
pany, which shall have not exceeding forty-five members, including 
officers ; such members to be appointed by the Selectmen, and to be 
removable at the pleasure of the Selectmen. No person shall be 
so appointed except he i^ eighteen years of age, and a resident in the 
Town, nor shall any one be appointed for a less term than six months. 

Section 2. The company shall have a Foreman, an assistant Foreman, 
and a Clerk, who shall all be chosen by the company annually, at a meet- 
ing to be held in May, subject to the approval of the Selectmen. 

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Foreman to see that the Engine 
and apparatus, and Engine House are all kept neat, clean and in order for 
immediate use, and to preserve order and discipline at all times in the 
company. 

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep a record (in a book 
to be provided by the Selectmen) of the names of all the officers and 
members of the company, specifying the times of appointment, discharge, 
and age of each member, and the absence of each from all fires in this 
Town, and from the monthly meetings provided for in the Sixth Section, 
and also a full account of the Town property in charge of the company 
— this book to be always subject to the control and inspection of the 
Selectmen, and to be actually submitted to their inspection sometime in 
the months of July and January in each year. In the course of the same 
months, the clerk is to deliver to the Town Treasurer a certified list of 
the officers and members of the company, specifying the number of times 
(if any) each officer or member has absented himself as aforesaid. 

Section 5. The company shall perform all duties by law required to be 
performed by engine men, and shall use their best endeavors, in as 
orderly and quiet a manner as possible, to extinguish all fires which may 
break out in this town. And in no instance shall the engine leave the 
Town without the consent of one or more of the fire-wards of the Town. 

Section 6. On the return of the engine from the fire, the same shall be 
well and securely taken care of ; and once a month the company shall 
meet for the purpose of examining the state of the engine and apparatus, 
and see that the same is in good repair and ready for use. 



By-Laws of the Town of Brookline. 243 

Section 7. The officers and members shall semi-annually receive from 
the Town Treasurer, on the first day of August and February, in full for 
their services, such compensation as the Selectmen may from time to 
time by vote determine. Provided that no member not appointed as pro- 
vided in the first section, and no officer not approved as provided iu the 
second section, shall receive any portion of such compensation. 

Section 8. No claims whatever on account of said company, its mem- 
bers or officers, shall be paid by the Town Treasurer, except the compen- 
sation provided by the Seventh Section. 

Section 9. The members of the company are not to meet in the Engine 
House for any purposes except those properly and reasonably connected 
with their duty as firemen, and no distilled or fermented liquors shall be 
used at any meeting whatever which shall be held in the Engine House. 
At any time when in the judgment of the Selectmen, the public good will 
be advanced thereby, all or any portion of the Company, its officers or 
members, may be dismissed from the service, or the Company disbanded. 

Highways. 

Section 1. All persons intending to erect, repair, or take down any 
building, on land abutting on any way which this Town is obliged to keep 
in repair, and who desire to make use of any portion of said way for the 
purpose of placing thereon building materials or rubbish, shall, ten days 
at least before so placing any building materials or rubbish, give notice 
in writing to the Selectmen of such wish. And thereupon the Selectmen 
are to cause to be staked out such portion of said way to be used for 
such purpose, as in their judgment the necessity of the case demands, 
and the security of the public allows, and to grant a permit accordingly 
— such permit in no case to be in force longer than ninety days. 

Section 2. It shall be the duty of every person to whom such permit 
may be granted, to place all his building materials and rubbish on the place 
designated by the Selectmen, and during the whole of every night, from 
twilight in the evening until the next morning, to keep lighted lanterns 
so placed as effectually to secure all travellers from liability to come in 
contact with such materials or rubbish. 

Section 3. In case any person shall use any portion of such way for 
the purposes mentioned in the first section without the permit in writing 
of the Selectmen, as therein provided, or for a longer time than so per 
mitted, or shall fail to comply with the requisitions of the second 
section, the party so in default shall forfeit and pay into the Town 
Treasury ten dollars for each offence, and shall also reimburse the Town 
all expenses by way of damages, or otherwise, which the Town may be 
compelled to pay by reason of the way being incumbered. 

Section 4. No wooden building more than ten feet high shall be moved 
over any way in this Town, which this Town is obliged to keep in repair, 
without the written permit of the Selectmen being first obtained ; and 
any person so moving, or assisting in moving any such building, without 
such permit being first obtained, or any such person who shall not 
comply with the restrictions and provisions which the Selectmen may 
think the public security demands, shall forfeit and pay into the Town 



244 BrooMine Town Records. 

Treasury for every such offence twenty dollars, provided such restric- 
tions and provisions are set forth in the permit. Provided, also, that 
the Selectmen shall in no case grant a permit for the removal of any 
building whatsoever which in the course of its removal will be likely to 
damage any trees, the property of individuals, whether standing in the 
road or in the field, unless the consent of such individuals is first had 
and obtained. 

Section 5. In case any building shall be moved contrary to the provis- 
ions of the fourth section, the owner of the building shall reimburse the 
Town all expenses by way of damages, or otherwise, which the Town 
may be compelled to pay by reason of the way being incumbered. 

Section 6. Whoever shall coast upon sleds in any of the streets or 
upon any of the sidewalks in this Town, shall forfeit and pay into the 
Town Treasury, for each offence, a sum not less than one dollar and not 
more than five dollars, to be paid by each offender or his or her parents 
or guardian respectively. 

Hay Scaxes. 

Section 1. The Selectmen shall appoint for a term of time, not 
exceeding one year, one person who shall have superintendence of the 
Hay Scales belonging to the Town, and such person may at any time be 
removed from office by the Selectmen. 

Section 2. In all cases of temporary absence, or inability from any 
cause, properly to perform the duties of his office, the Superintendent 
shall procure, at his own expense, a substitute to perform such duties; 
such substitute in all cases to be approved by the Selectmen, and to be 
removable at their pleasure. 

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to weigh all hay 
and other articles which may be offered to be weighed, and to conform to 
all such rules and regulations as shall be established by the Selectmen, 
concerning the scales and fees for weighing. 

Vaccination of Children attending the Public Schools. 

From and after the first day of May, 1847, no child shall be admitted 
into any public school in this town, unless he or she shall present to the 
instructor or instructress, a certificate from some physician, that he or 
she has been properly vaccinated ; or unless the parents or guardians of 
such child shall certify in writing that such vaccination has been prop- 
erly performed. 

Animals Running at Large. 

No horses or other grazing cattle or swine shall be suffered to run at 
large in this Town, or to feed by the roadside either with or without a 
keeper ; and for every such animal so suffered to run at large not having 
a keeper, or to feed by the roadside either with or without a keeper, the 
owner shall forfeit and pay into the Town Treasury five dollars for every 
such offence. 

Enforcement of By-Laws. 

Until otherwise provided, all penalties which shall be recovered by 
reason of the breach of any of the foregoing By-Laws, shall be paid into 



Special Meeting, November 1, 1847. 245 

the Towu Treasury for the use of the Town : and it shall be the duty of 
the Town Treasurer to prosecute for all such breaches, in the manner 
provided by Law. 

March 8, 1847. Attest : Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 

And now the Petitioners appear and enter their petition, and the court, 
after a full examination of the By-Laws aforenamed, approve of the 
same and order that they be recorded. 

A true copy as appears of record. 

Attest: Ezra W. Sampson, CU>rk. 

A true copy. 
See tile E, No. 28. Attest: Aktem as Newell, Town Clerk. 



WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. ? 
Brookline. ] To the Constables of the Town of Bvookhne, 

Greeting : 
You are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, the first day of 
November next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, for the fol- 
lowing purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To act upon an order of notice which lias been served upon the 
Town Clerk by the County Commissioners, upon the petition of Alvin 
Loker & 36 others for a new road from a point near the School House in 
Newton Street, Brookline. through lands of Hills, Humphrey, Hyde, 
Loker, and others, to the junction of Lowder's Lane with Centre Street 
in Roxbury; the Commissioners appointing Thursday, the 4th day of 
November next, to proceed to view said route. 

3. To hear the report of the Committee on Ventilation, & to take 
such further action upon the subject of Ventilation as the Town may 
think proper. 

4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for repairs of the 
School House in School Street. 

5th. To act upon an order of notice upon the petition of the " Grand 
Junction Railroad and Depot Company " to the Legislature for branch 



246 Brookline Town Records. 

Railroads from Chelsea, through Maiden, Somerville, Charlestown, Cain- 
bridge, across Charles River to the Boston & Worcester Railroad near 
the Ship Yard bridge in Brookline. 

(i. To sec it' the Town will make some arrangement with the owners of 
land in the rear of of the Town House for mutual accommodation. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon at the time and place of the said meet- 
ing. 

Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, 
this Twenty-second day of October, A. D. One Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Forty-Seven. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
Daniel Sanderson, > of 

H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. i October 2<i. 1847. In pursuance of the foregoing war- 
Brookline. i rant, I have notified the inhabitants therein named to 
meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein expressed, by 
leaving a notification at the residence of each voter. 

Elisiia Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
See file E. No. 29. A true copy. Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall, on Mon- 
day, the first day of November, 1847. 

Marshal Stearns was chosen Moderator. 

The second article in the Warrant, in relation to the peti- 
tion of Alvin Loker & others for a new road, came up for 
consideration, and it was — (See file E, No. 30.) 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to appear 
before the County Commissioners, and oppose, in behalf of 
the Town, the laying out of the new road as petitioned for 
by Alvin Loker & 36 others, on the ground that it will be of 
no public benefit either to the Town or County. 

The Third Article in the warrant, to hear the report of the 
Ventilating Committee, &c, was taken up, and after some 
remarks by George Griggs, Esq., Chairman of the Commit- 
tee, he presented the following report : 



Special Meeting, November 1, 1847. 247 

The Chairman of the Committee on Ventilation begs leave to report, 
that of the $500 appropriated by the Town to defray the expense of ven- 
tilation, there has been expended about $350 in ventilating the Town 
Hall, the High School, & the School House in Newton Street; that owing 
to a division of opinion in the committee, further progress cannot now 
be made in the subject of ventilation without some further action on the 
part of the Town. George Griggs, Chairman. 

Nov. 1, 1847. See file No. 31. 

After some debate, Mr. John F. Edwards, in behalf of 
himself and Mr. Willard Sears, other members of the com- 
mittee, offered the following report : 

The undersigned, members of the Committee for Ventilating the 
Public Buildings of Brookline, respectfully present the following state- 
ment of their doings: That in August last they put a ventaduct on the 
High School House, and also introduced cold air to the room, at an 
expense of $63.46. Thatthey also ventilated the School House at Putter- 
ham, so called, at an expense of $30.00. They then postponed all further 
action until they should learn the success of the plans adopted at the 
above-named buildings. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

by John F. Edwards, 

Willard Sears. See tile E, No. 31. 

After a long explanation by Mr. Griggs, which had been 
reduced to writing by him, and which was responded to by 
the other members of the committee, and the whole subject 
having undergone quite a lengthy and animated discussion, 
in which it was shown that there existed quite a diversity of 
opinion among the members of the committee, which, dur- 
ing such a state of things, might be an obstacle to the com- 
plete accomplishment of the objects of the Town in regard 
to ventilation, it was — 

Voted, That the reports of the Majority and Minority of 
the Committee be accepted, and that the Committee be dis- 
charged ; that a committee of three be chosen to examine 
the bills that have been incurred both by the Minority and 
Majority of the Committee, and all bills that shall be 
approved by said Committee shall be paid by the Treasurer. 

The following named gentlemen were chosen a committee 
to attend to said duty : William I. Bowditch, Samuel Phil- 
brick, & George Stoddard. 



248 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the same Committee have authority to com- 
plete the ventilation of the public school rooms in the Town 
which have not already been ventilated, if it can be done 
within the appropriation of $500, already made. See file 
No. 31. 

Voted, That the 4th article in the warrant, in relation to 
repairs of the School House in School Street, be indefinitely 
postponed. 

Voted, That the consideration of the 5th Article in the 
warrant, relating to branch Railroads, be indefinitely post- 
poned. See file No. 32. 

The 6th Article was taken up for consideration, in regard 
to lands in rear of the Town House. 

Dr. Wild made some remarks in explanation of the objects 
for which the article was introduced into the warrant, and 
as one of the proprietors of land in the rear of the Town 
House, his object was to make a proposition to the town to 
grade and finish off the gravel bank, in a proper manner, 
without any expense to the Town other than the relinquish- 
ment to the said proprietors of all the gravel that it might 
be necessary to move to effect the object. 

The subject was disposed of by the following vote : 

Voted, That a committee of two persons be appointed to 
act in conjunction with the board of Selectmen, with plenary 
powers to make any equitable arrangement with the propri- 
etors of the land adjoining the Town's land in the rear of the 
Town Hall, in regard tcr removing gravel and making banks 
as they shall deem expedient. See file E, No. 33. 

Messrs. Samuel Philbrick & Charles Stearns, Jun., were 
appointed to act on said committee. 

Voted, To adjourn without day. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toivn Clerk. 



General Election, November 8, 1847. 249 



NOVEMBER MEETING, 1847. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. ) 

Brookline. 5 To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to give at least seven days' notice to the inhab- 
itants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections, by leaving 
a printed notification at the residence of each and every 
voter to meet at the Town Hall in said Town, on Monda} r , 
the 8th day of November next, at one o'clock in the after- 
noon, it being the second Monday in said month, at which 
time and place the Polls will be opened by the Selectmen 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

1. To determine whether this town will send a Representative to the 
next General Court. 

2. To receive the votes of the said Inhabitants, mi one ballot, Cor the 
following officers, viz. : Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- 
monwealth, Three Senators for the County of Norfolk, and a Represent- 
ative to the next General Court, if the town so determine. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, 
this Twenty-Second day of October, A. D. One Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Forty-Seven. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
Daniel Sanderson, > of 

H. M. Sanborn, \ Brookline. 



B.1 
E. j ri 



Brookline. j , r ant, I have notified the inhabitants qualified to vote in 
elections, to meet at the time and place & for the purposes therein 
expressed, by leaving a notification at the residence of each voter. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Nkwkll, Town C'lrrk. 



250 Brookline Town Records. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Polls were 
opened by the Selectmen at one o'clock p. m., on the said 
8th day of November, 1847, and were kept open, by vote 
of the Town, until 4 o'clock p. m., when they were closed, 
and the result found to be as follows, to wit : 

1st. Voted, To send a Representative to the next Gen- 
eral Court. 

The whole number of ballots cast for Governor were Two Hundred and 

Forty-Six. 246. 

George A. Briggs of Pittsfield received ( >ne Hundred & Thirty-Eight. 138 

Caleb dishing of Newburyport " Fifty-five. 55 

Francis Baylies of Taunton " Fifty-one. 51 

Stephen C. Philips of Salem " One. 1 

Samuel E. Sewell One. 1 

Whole number of Ballots for Lieut. -Governor Two Hundred & Forty- 
four. 244. 
John Reed of Yarmouth Received One Hundred & Thirty-Eight. 138 
Henry W. Cushman of Bernardston Fifty-four. 54 

Charles W. Moore " Charlestown Fifty-one. 51 

John G. Palfrey " Boston One. 1 

Whole number of ballots for Senators Two Hundred & Forty-Six. 246. 

Truman Clark of Walpole Rec'd One Hundred & Forty. 140 

David A. Simmons " Roxbury " One Hundred & Thirty-Eight. 138 

James C. Doane " Cohasset One Hundred & Forty. 140 

Edgar K. Whitaker " Needham Fifty-Six. 56 

Asa Pickering '• Bellingham Fifty-four. 54 

Isaac Tower " Randolph Fifty-lour. 54 

Minot Thayer " Braintree Fifty. 50 

John C. Scammel " Bellingham Forty-nine. 49 

Ira Gill of Walpole Forty-nine. 49 

Marshal P. Wilder of Roxbury ( >ne. 1 

Whole number of Ballots for Representative to Gen. Court One Hundred 

forty-Seven. 

Marshal Stearns had Ninety-Two. 92 

James Bartlett Fifty-four. 54 

John N. Turner Fifty-four. 54 

John Howe Forty-rive. 45 

Charles Stearns & Otis Withington each one. 2 

There was no choice of Representative. 
The returns were signed by the Town Clerk & Selectmen, 
and sealed up in open meeting. File E, No. 35. 
The meeting was then dissolved. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk- 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



Special Meeting, November 22, 1847. 251 



4th MONDAY OF NOVEMBER MEETING, 1847. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. ) To the Constables of the Town of 
Brookline. 5 Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Brook- 
line qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall 
in said Town, on Monday, the 22nd day of November inst., 
it being the fourth Monday of said month, at one o'clock in 
the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be 
opened by the Selectmen for the purpose of electing a Rep- 
resentative to the next General Court. 

You are also hereby required to notify the said inhabitants 
to meet at said Town Hall on said 22nd day of November, 
at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following 
purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To see if the Town will take measures to complete the arrange- 
ments with owners of land adjoining the Town House Lot for mutual 
accommodation. Also, to see if the Toavii will authorize the purchase of 
a Lantern, to be placed at the door of the Town House. 

3. To hear and act upon the request of the Prudential School Com- 
mittee for the North District, for an appropriation for repairs of the 
School House in said District. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of the meeting 
aforesaid. 

Given under our hands and seals this eleventh day of No- 
vember, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty- 
seven. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
Daniel Sanderson, > of 
H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 



!:}, 



Brookline. | ^ me directed, I have notified the said inhabitants to 
appear at the time and place and for the purposes therein expressed. 
See file E, No. 36. Charles D. Perry, Constable of Brookline. 



252 Brookline Town Records. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Polls were 
opened by the Selectmen on the said 22nd day of Novem- 
ber, 1847, for the choice of Representative to the next Gen- 
eral Court, and were kept open 2 hours and a half, by vote 
of the Town, when they were closed, and votes were sorted 
and counted by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and the 
result found to be as follows : 

Whole number of votes cast were One hundred & fifty-six. 
Necessary for a choice, Seventy-nine. 
John Howe receiving Seventy-nine, and is chosen. 
Marshal Stearns received Thirty-Two. 
John N. Turner " Twenty-Six. 

Augustus W. Seamans " Thirteen. 
James Bartlett " Five. 

Theodore Lyman " One. 

Minutes No. 37, File E. Attest : A. Newell, 

Town Clerk. 

The meeting notified to take place at half-past three o'clock 
in the afternoou of said 22nd day of November, was called 
to order by the Town Clerk, and James Bartlett was chosen 
Moderator. 

That portion of the second article in the warrant relating 
to lands about the Town House, was disposed of by the fol- 
lowing vote : 

Voted, That the subject of making arrangement with 
owners of land adjoining the Town House lot be submitted to 
the same committee to which was refered the subject of 
making arrangement with owners of land in the rear of the 
Town House at a former meeting, and that the Selectmen be 
authorized to notify all concerned by this vote that a final 
and full arrangement may be made of matters connected 
with this subject. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized 
and instructed to purchase two such lanterns as they shall 
deem suitable, one to be placed over the steps by an arch at 
the entrance of the Town Hall, and the other to be placed 
over the steps at the entrance from the street, by an arch 
also, and that the said Selectmen draw on the Treasurer for 
the expense of the same. 



Special Meeting, December 6, 1847. 253 

The 3d article in the warrant came up for consideration, 
in relation to the repairs of the School House in School 
Street, and Marshal Stearns, in behalf of Charles Stearns, 
Jim., the Prudential School Committee for said District, 
presented a Memorial setting forth the nature of the repairs, 
and the expense of the same, which was Three Hundred and 
Ninety Dollars and 40 cents, and requested that an appro- 
priation for the payment of that sum be made. 

The memorial was accepted, and will be found on File E, 
No. 38. 

Voted, That the sum of Three Hundred Ninety & -ffo Dol- 
lars be appropriated for the payment of the expense of 
repairs of the School House in School Street, and that the 
Treasurer be hereby authorized to borrow that amount, pro- 
vided there is not a sufficient sum unappropriated in the 
Treasury, and that the same be paid to Charles Stearns, Jun., 
to reimburse him for the said expenditure. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 6, 1847. 

[seal.] 

rsEAL.1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. ) 
Brookline. 5 To the Constables of the Town of BrooJcline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Brook- 
line, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said Town on Monday, the 6th day of December 
next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, for the following pur- 
poses, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To see whether the Town will enter into a definite arrangement in 
relation to the lot of land under and about Dr. Pierce's church, so that 
the land owned by the first Parish and Church, or either of them, may be 
owned free from all right, or claim of right, on the part of the Town. 



254 Brookline Town Records. 

3. To see whether the Town will make an appropriation for a furnace 
for the High School. 

4. To see whether the Town Avill cause some Horse Sheds to be erected 
in the vicinity of the Town Hall. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of the said 
meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals this Thirtieth day of 
November, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred & Forty- 
Seven. 

Daniel Sanderson, ) Selectmen of 
H. M. Sanborn, \ Brookline. 



FOLK, SS. \ 
OOKLINE. J 



Brookline. j to me directed, I have notified the said inhabitants to meet 
at the time and place and for the purposes therein expressed, by leaving 
a printed notification at the residence of each voter. 

A. H. Clapp, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Entered in file E, No. 3i). 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, a Town meeting 
was held at the time appointed, Monday, December 6, 1847. 

Mr. Daniel Sanderson was chosen Moderater at a quarter 
before two o'clock — but fifteen persons present. 

The second Article in the Avarrant came up for considera- 
tion, in relation to the land about Dr. Pierce's Church. 

The subject was debated at some length by Mr. Bowditch 
(who explained the present situation of the land, it being 
encumbered by certain agreements made between the Town 
& Parish in 1834, which served as an incubus to the free 
action on the part of the Parish in making such improve- 
ments as they now proposed to make), and by George 
Griggs, Esq., Dr. Wild, Mr. Philbrick, and some others, 
and was disposed of, on motion of W. I. Bowditch, Esq., 
by the following vote : 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and they are hereby direct- 
ed to execute, acknowledge and deliver to the First Parish 
in Brookline a quit-claim deed on the part of the Town, 
releasing in fee simple all the right of the Town in and to 



Special Meeting, December 6, 1847. 255 

all that lot of land on which the meeting house now stands, 
bounded north and west by Walnut Street, south by land 
formerly of Samuel Clark, east by a line identical with the 
east side of the range of horse sheds standing in the rear of 
the late Town House, north by a line passing along the north 
side of the shed nearest said house, and east by a line drawn 
parallel to the west side of said House and fifteen feet dis- 
tant therefrom, upon receiving from said Parish a like deed 
of release to this Town and all persons claiming under it, of 
all the residue of the land described in the deed to this Town 
from William Aspinwall and Stephen Sharp, dated Sept. 5, 
1804, and recorded with Norfolk deeds, Lib. 25, fol. 152. 
But the legal rights of the owners of the Horse Sheds stand- 
ing on the land to be released to the Parish, are to be 
excepted in the deed, and the Town is to covenant that the 
triangular lot of land lying east of the estate of John E. 
Thayer shall forever remain open and unencumbered, for 
the benefit of light, air and prospect for the adjoining 
estates. See file E, No. 46. 

The third article in the warrant, in regard to an appropri- 
ation for a Furnace for the High School, was disposed of by 
the following vote : 

Voted, That the sum of Two Hundred dollars be appro- 
priated for a furnace in the High School. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the 
sum of Two Hundred Dollars for the purpose of meeting the 
above appropriation, if necessary. 

Voted, That the Town cause Horse Sheds to be erected 
on the grounds in the rear and about the Town House. 

© 

Voted, That the subject of erecting Horse Sheds be 
refered to the Committee who were appointed at a former 
meeting to arrange with owners of land about the Town 

© O 

House. 

Voted, That the Town Clerk be hereby instructed to read 
the warrants for all future Town Meetings, within five min- 
utes of the time specified in the warrant for calling such 
meetings respectively. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



256 Brookline Town Records. 



SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, FEBRUARY 3, 1848. 



WARRANT. 

SEAL.] 

seal.1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

SEAL.] 

Norfolk, ss. ) To the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
Brookline. 5 n nej Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Brookline, on Thursday, the Third day 
of February next, at 2| o'clock p. m., for the following 
purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To act upon an order of notice from the Legislature on the peti- 
tion of the Mayor of the city of Roxbury, that that city may be consti- 
tuted the county seat instead of Dedham. 

3. To act upon the order of notice from the Legislature on the petition 
of George R. Russell and others for a Railroad from West Roxbury to 
Brookline. 

4. To receive and act upon the report of any committee which may 
be prepared to report. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said 
meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals this twenty-eighth day of 
January, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred & forty- 
eight. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
Daniel Sanderson, > of 
H. M. Sanborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. \Town of Brookline. 

Feb. 1, 1848. / Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the 
Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline herein described to meet at the 
time & place & for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed 
notice at the residence of said voters in said Town. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
See file E, No. 41. A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk- 



Special Meeting, February 3, 1848. 257 

Agreeably to the notice issued by virtue of the fore- 
going warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Brookline 
assembled at the time and place as therein set forth. 

The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk at 
half-past two o'clock, and Daniel Sanderson was chosen 
Moderator. 

The 2d Article in the warrant, in regard to the removal of 
the county seat, was taken up, and after some debate it was 

Voted, That our Representative be requested to oppose 
the granting the petition of the Mayor of the city of Rox- 
bury to have the county seat removed, unless that city will 
pay all the expense attending such removal. 

The said petition & order of notice thereon will be found 
on file E, No. 42. 

Article 3d in the warrant was disposed of, without discus- 
sion, by the following 3 votes : File E, No. 44. 

Voted, That in the opinion of the inhabitants of Brookline 
no such necessity or public inconvenience exists as calls for 
the granting of the petition of George R. Russell and others, 
inasmuch as the petitioners can obtain ample railroad accom- 
modation with the city of Boston by means of a branch to 
the Providence road, and because the travel from WestRox- 
bury more naturally falls into the Providence than into the 
Worcester Railroad. 

Voted, Therefore, that if for no other reason, we are 
earnestly opposed to any road which, like this, thus unnec- 
essarily must make a bad crossing over the principal street 
in the Town. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to forthwith to 
lay before the Legislature an attested copy of these votes as 
constituting a remonstrance on the part of the Town against 
the granting of such petition. See file E, No. 43. 

There were no committees to report under the 4 Article. 

Voted, To adjourn. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerh. 



17 



258 Brookline Town Records. 

WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING, 1848. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. ) 
Brookline. $ To the Constables of the Town of Br'ookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, the sixth day of 
March next, at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, for the 
following purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To choose the necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. 

3. To hear the reports of Town Officers and committees. 

4. To bring in their votes for county Treasurer. 

5. To revise the Jury Box. 

<>. To see if the Town will choose a committee to confer with the 
Water Commissioners concerning the land that was taken from the road 
for the reservoir ; also, on the subject of lowering the road over Brad- 
ley's Hill, so called. 

7. To Act upon the petition of sundry persons, inhabitants of this 
Town, for a Town Road to be laid out and constructed from Washington 
Street, on the westerly side of the Town House, through Mechanics 
place, so called, to Harvard Street. 

8. To see if the Town will grant and appropriate a sum of money for 
the purpose of laying Flagging Stones across Washington Street in the 
Village. 

9. To see if the Town will annex the new Road in the south part of 
the Town to Newton Street Highway District, or otherwise provide for 
keeping it in repair ; also, to give said new road a name. 

10. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as be necessary to 
meet the expenditures of the Town the ensuing year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place as above named. 
Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-Eighth day of 

February, Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred 

and Forty-eight. 

James Bartlett, ) Selectmen of 
H. M. Sanborn, C Brookline. 



Annual Meeting, March 6, 1848. 259 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 2, 1848. In pursuance of the fore- 
going warrant to me directed. I have notified the said Inhabitants to 
meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein expressed, by 
leaving a printed notification at the residence of each of said voters. 

Franklin Tukey, Constable. 
A true copy of the warrant and return. 

See file E, No. 45. Attest : A. Newell, Toion Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall at half- 
past one o'clock p. m., on Monday, the sixth day of March, 
1848. 

The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, and 
Dr. Pierce conducted to the Desk, who opened the meeting 
with Prayer. 

James Bartlett was then chosen Moderator. 

Artemas Newell was re-elected Town Clerk, and was 
immediately sworn to the faithful discharge of the duty by 
the Moderator. 

Dr. Charles Wild, in behalf of the Town Treasurer and 
Auditing Committee, made the following report : 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

In pursuance of the provisions of the Laws of the Commonwealth 

requiring Treasurers of Towns to make report annually of their official 
acts, the Treasurer would submit the following report: 

Balance of cash on Hand at last Audit $814 58 

Received into the Treasury for Taxes and from sundry other 

Sources during the year ,|S 74 15 



Leaving the resources for the year .... $10688 73 
From which has been paid by orders of the Selectmen, 
School Committee, votes of the Town, and for County 
Taxes 10189 22 



Leaving a balance in the T 8499 51 



For a detailed account of the receipts and expenditures, reference may 
be had to the Auditors' printed report. 

The debts of the Town, including interest computed to February 1, 
1848, amount to the sum of Six Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Three 
dollars and Sixty-Eight cents. 

Brookline, March 0, 1848. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

See file E, No. 46. A. Newell, Treas. 



260 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the report be accepted. 

George F. Homer, Esq., in behalf of the School Commit- 
tee, made a Report. ' It was — 

Voted, To accept the report of the School Committee, and 
that it be printed and distributed, one copy to each family 
in the Town. 

The report will be found on file E, No. 49. 
Voted, To choose three Selectmen. 

Proceeded to ballot for three Selectmen, which resulted 
in the choice of 

James Bartlett, } 

Hugh M. Sanborn, > Selectmen. 

John W. Warren, ) 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 

Proceeded to ballot for Assessors, which resulted in the 
choice of Charles Stearns, Jun., Thomas Griggs, Royal 
Mcintosh. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be collector of Taxes for the 
ensuing year. 

Stephen S. C. Jones was chosen Treasurer & Collector. 

Voted, To open the Polls for County Treasurer. 

John Bullard, Esq., of Dedham, received the whole num- 
ber of votes given in for County Treasurer — being Eighty- 
Five. 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of School Committee, to 
consist of five. 

Rev. William H. Shailer, William I. Bowditch, Esq., 
George F. Homer, Rev. Joseph Haven, Jun., were chosen, 
leaving one vacancy. 

Mr. Bowditch, after some remarks, declined to accept or 
serve as one of the School Committee. 

Mr. Shailer also made some remarks, but desired to have 
time to consider before giving his decision. 

The meeting then adjourned for one week, to Monday, the 
13th inst., at half-past one o'clock p. M. 

Attest: A. Neavell, Town Clerk. 

Agreeably to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Town 
Clerk forthwith issued his warrant to Constable Clapp, 



Annual Meeting, March 6, 1848. 261 

requiring him to summon the several persons who had been 
chosen to office, of whom an oath was required, to appeal- 
before said Clerk within seven days from the receipt of such 
notice, to take the oath required by law to qualify them for 
the discharge of the duties of the several offices to which 
they have been respectively chosen. 

March 7, 1848. Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Mar. 8. John Warren appeared and declined to serve as 
a Selectman for the ensuing year. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toivn Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. 

March 10. Then personally appeared Stephen S. C. 

Jones and made oath that he would faithfully and impartially 

discharge the duties of Treasurer and Collector during the 

ensuing year. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Then personally appeared the persons hereafter named 
and took the oath required by law to qualify them for the 
discharge of the duties of the several offices to which they 
have respectively been elected. 

as Selectman & Highway Surveyor. 

Do. & Highway Surveyer. 

Do. 
" Field Driver. 

" Higlnva}* Surveyor & Field Driver. 
" Fence Viewer. 
" Do. Do. 
" Highway Surveyor. 

Do. Do. 

Do. Do. 

Do. Do. 

" Field Driver & Highway Surveyor. 
" Do. Do. Do. Do. 

" Surveyor of Wood & Lumber. 
■• Surveyor of Highways. 
Sworn as Assessor. 



Mar. 


14. 


James Bartlett i 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Bela Stoddard 
Samuel A. Walker 




16. 


Charles Warren 
Clark L. Haynes 




18. 


Francis H. Corey 
William White 
Thomas X.Woodward 
David S. Coolidge 




20. 


Mark W. Sheafe 




21. 


Simon Warren 




22. 


Samuel Hills 




27. 


E. Stone 
Jesse Bird 


May 


1. 


Charles Stearns, Jan., 
Thomas Griggs 
Royal Mcintosh 



262 Brookline Town Records. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 13, 1848. 

In pursuance of the adjournment on the Sixth inst., the 
inhabitants of the Town of Brookline assembled for the 
purpose of attending to the unfinished business of the Town. 

The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Mr. 
Bartlett, and proceeded to make choice of such officers as 
were not elected on the Sixth inst. 

First, Balloted for a Selectman to fill the vacancy occa- 
sioned by John W. Warren declining to serve in that 
capacity. 

Mr. Jesse Bird was chosen ; he declined to serve, and 
was excused. 

Moses Withington was then chosen, who also declined 
and was excused. 

Bela Stoddard was then chosen, which makes the board of 
Selectmen for the year complete, to wit : 
James Bartlett, ~\ 
Hugh M. Sanborn, > Selectmen. 
Bela Stoddard, 3 

Proceeded to fill the existing vacancy in the School Com- 
mittee by electing Samuel Philbrick. 

The following named persons were chosen Prudential 
School Committee : 

Charles Stearns, Jim., for North District. 
Mark W. Sheaf e, " Middle " 

Simon W. Clifford, " South 

Voted, To choose Ten Highway Surveyors by Ballot. 
Highway Surveyors. 



1. 


David S. Coolidge, 


Harvard 


Street 


District. 


2. 


James Bartlett. 


Washington ' ' 


" 


3. 


Jesse Bird, 


Walnut 


" 


" 


4. 


Charles Warren, 


Warren 


" 


" 


5. 


Mark W. Sheaf e. 


Heath 


" 


" 


6. 


Samuel Hills. 


Clyde 


" 


" 


7. 


Thomas N. Woodward, 


Newton 


" 


" 


8. 


Simon Warren, 


Boylston 


" 


Western District 


9. 


William White, 


Brighton 


" 


" 


0. 


H. M. Sanborn, 


Boylston 


" 


Eastern " 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 13, 1848. 263 

George Stoddard, ^ Signified acceptance. March 15th. 
Seth T. Thayer, > were chosen FireWards. Attest : A.N. 
Augustus Allen, J 

Clark L. Haynes, Caleb Clark were chosen Fence;Viewers. 
Voted, To choose five Constables for the ensuing year. 
A. H. Clapp, -| 

H. M. Sanborn, 

Franklin Tukey, } Were chosen Constables. 
William Hardy, 
Charles D. Perry, J 

Clapp, Sanborn & Tukey were forthwith sworn to the 
faithful discharge of the duty by the Town Clerk. 
Voted, To choose ten Field Drivers, as follows : 

1. Samuel A. Walker. <'>• Samuel Hills. 

2. Henry Corey. "• William .1. Hyde. 

3. Samuel Philbrick. B. Simon Warren. 

4. Charles Warren. !»■ Joseph S. White. 

5. Mark \V. Sheafe. 10. A. Newell. 

Mess. Abijah W. Goddard, William I. Bowditch, Charles 
W. Scudder, were chosen Comittee on Accounts. 

Mr. Bird, in behalf of the Cemetery Committee, submitted 
the following report : 

REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMITTEE. 

The Cemetery Committee of the Town of Brookline respectfully ask 
leave to report that — 

The receipts of money since last report have been . . $40 00 

Balance from last report 238 22 

$278 22 
The disbursements for the same period .... 19 76 

Leaving Bal. in Treasury of $ 258 46 

From returns made by the sexton, it appears there has been 40 deaths 
•within the Town during the year ; of this number 28 have been interred 
here, with the addition of 6 brought from other places. 

All of which is submitted. By order of the Committee, 

Bkookltxk, March 1, 1848. Jesse Bird, 

See file E, No. 47. Hakrison Fay. 

Mess. Jesse Bird, Harrison Fay, Augustus Aspinwall were 
chosen Cemetery Committee. 



264 



BrooMine Town Records. 



Elisha Stone, Jeremiah Lyon, were chosen Surveyors of 
Wood & Lumber. 

Mr. Bowditch, in behalf of the committee chosen Nov. 1, 
1847, to approve bills and complete the ventilation of the 
public buildings, presented the following report : 

REPORT OF 2d COMMITTEE ON VENTILATION. 

The Committee appointed Nov. 1, 1847, to examine the bills incurred 
by the committee on A r entilation, respectfully report : 

At our first meeting - , held Nov. 5, the following bills were presented to 
us for examination : 



John F. Edwards . 
Cornelius Crowley . 
Elisha Stone . . . . 
Lewis Jones & Sons 
Franklin Tukey . . 
George Griggs . . . 



Original amount 


Deducted by us. 


Allowed. 


$30 IC, 


$1 87 


$28 29 


24 23 




24 23 


10 


. 


10 


157 29 


, . 


157 29 


122 17 


7 25 


114 92 


10 75 


6 25 


. 4 50 



The last bill was subsequently withdrawn by Mr. Griggs, and a new 
one of $4.50 presented, in which were included only those items of the 
previous bill which we had approved. The bills thus approved amount to 
$339.23. 

Under the authority conferred upon us to complete the ventilation of 
the School Rooms, we have expended $10.25 in work done on the Middle 
District School House. We deemed it inexpedient at present to incur 
any expense in ventilating the School House in the North District. Hav- 
ing thus, as we thought, completed the duties imposed on us, we pre- 
pared to report at the last Town Meeting. Our report was not, however, 
presented, because Mr. Griggs informed us that there was another bill 
for us to examine. Accordingly, on the 24th of February Ave had a meet- 
ing to act upon this claim. It proved to be the balance of the account 
of Lewis Jones & Son; the whole amount of this account is $255.33. Of 
its various items we had previously approved all those for the ventilators 
on the Town Hall, the High School House, and the School House in New- 
ton Street, amounting to $157.29, and Mr. Clifford, the Prudential Com- 
mittee for the Southwest District, has, Ave understand, approved items 
amounting to $3.02, leaving $95.02 as the balance for Avhich our approval 
was asked. This expense Avas incurred in procuring and placing two 
ventilating stoves and some funnel in the High School House and the 
School House in Newton Street. After deliberation, Ave decided that we 
had no authority to approve this claim. 

At the Town Meeting held Noa'. 1, 1847, Mr. Griggs, as chairman of 
the committee on Ventilation, reported as follows : " Of the $500 appro- 
priated by the Town, there has been expended about $350 in defraying 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 13, 1848. 265 

the expense of ventilating the Town Hall, the High School House, and 
the School House in Newton Street." This sum, then, (at #350,) was 
all which the committee on Ventilation considered a rightful charge 
against that appropriation of $500. was all which they claimed had been 
expended for ventilation. The bills which were presented to us in 
November amounted to $364.60. They were the only bills alluded to by 
the chairman in his report, as lie himself informs us; on his own show- 
ing they constituted all the bills incurred for Ventilation. We were 
therefore appointed to examine these bills, amounting to about .$350. 
This was the extent of our authority, and this duty we think was com- 
pletely performed last November. Accordingly, we have decided that 
we have no authority to allow the balance of this claim. It is a claim 
which the committee itself deliberately decided not to be a rightful 
charge upon the appropriation for Ventilation, and which It has so 
reported to the Town. 

We have not been led to this decision by anj desire to embarrass Mr. 
Griggs or the Town, or to avoid labor, but the only correct way for 
committees to act is to ad within the scope of their authority, [f such 
a rule had been followed by the chairman of the committee on ventila- 
tion, no trouble would have arisen. Nor have we desired to avoid the 
responsibility of expressing an opinion upon the merits of this claim, 
because we should have rejected it if we had considered that we had 
authority so to do. 

See file E, No. 48. William L Bowditch, Chairman. 

After some remarks by Mr. Geo. Griggs in explanation 
of the bill referred to in the report, it was — 

Voted, That the report be accepted, and that the Select- 
men be authorized to return the two venti latino; stoves to 
Mess. Lewis Jones & Son, and to settle and pay the balance 
of their bill. 

Mr. Bartlett, in behalf of the committee appointed to 
arrange about Gravel Banks, &c, made the following report : 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GRAVEL BANKS. 

The Committee appointed by the Town of Brookline to enter into 
arrangements with the owners of land bounding on the Town House lot 
for removing the gravel 'and grading the bank, &c., and also to prepare 
and report estimates of the expense which would be required for the 
erection of horse sheds around the Town House, would now report : 

That they have made arrangements with David R. Griggs for laying a 
stone wall five feet high on the line of his land, at the expense of the 
Town, on condition that said Griggs should first remove all the gravel 
between the Town House and his line, on a grade descending from the 
present grade around the Town House ; and also grade the bank on his 
own land, sloping back from the bottom of said wall. The grading is 
now nearly completed, and the stones are in readiness for laying. 



266 BrooMine Town Records. 

Subsequent to this agreement, your committee have rec'd a written 
communication, signed by John Gibbs, Thomas Seaverns, David R. 
Griggs, and' Dr. Charles Wild, proposing to open a public passage way, 
24 ft. in width, through land from Washington Street to Mechanics 
Place, so called, on Harvard St. Making the boundary line between land 
of David R. Griggs and the Town the centre of said passage way, offer- 
ing their land gratis, provided the town would do likewise, and assist 
them in the completion of the project. As this proposition embraces the 
surrender of a strip of land twelve feet in width from the easterly side 
of the Town land for a public passage way, your committee did not con- 
sider themselves authorized to act upon it further than to lay it before 
the Town, recommending its acceptance on the part of the Town, pro- 
vided the whole expense of laying out, grading & completing said passage 
way, should be paid without assistance from the Town. 

If this proposition should meet the approbation of the Town, and be 
carried into effect, it will not release the Town from the expense of 
laying the partition wall before named. Your committee therefore 
request an appropriation of One Hundred &, Ten dollars to meet that 
expense. 

The present unfinished condition of all the gravel banks on the adjoin- 
ing lands around the Town House, together with the pending project for 
opening the passage way above named, and the probability that attempts 
may soon be made for widening the present passage way on the western 
side of the Town house, render it inexpedient, in the opinion of your 
committee, for them to prematurely procure estimates or offer any opin- 
ion in regard to the expense of erecting horse sheds back of the Town 
House at the present time. 

All of which is submitted by your committee, with a request to be dis- 
charged from the further consideration of this subject. 

Brookline, Feb. 18, 1848. James Bartlett, 

Daniel Sanderson, 

See file E, No. 50. H. M. Sanborn, 

Charles Stearns, Jun. 

Voted, That the report be accepted. 

After a lengthy discussion in relation to the expediency 
of adopting the reccommendation of the committee " to lay 
out a road on the easterly side of the Town House," it was 

Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to lay out a Road, 
agreeably to the reccommendation of the Committee, on the 
East Side of the Town House, provided said Road shall not 
be laid out less than Thirty feet in width. 

The Fifth Article in the warrant was taken up, " To revise 
the Jury Box," and the following list of names were rec- 
commended by the Selectmen and approved : 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 13, 1848. 267 



List of Jurors offered to the Town for approval by the 
Selectmen, March 13, 18-18. 



When drawn. 



Nov. 15, 

April 10, 
February 11, 

Nov. 15, 
April 10, 
March 5, 
January 9, 

July 1, 
Feb. 3, 
Nov. 15, 
Sept. 1, 
April 10, 
Sept. 2, 



1850. 1. 



1848. 

1850. 

1850. 
1848. 
1849. 
1850. 

1850. 
1851. 
1850. 
1849. 
1849. 
1850. 



6. 



September 4, 1848 



July 1, 
April 1 , 
March 5, 
March 5, 
Dec. 8, 
April 1, 



February 9th, 1849. 
January 9, 1850. 
Dec. 4. 1848. 

April 10, 1849. 



Marshal Stearns. 
Daniel Sanderson. 
Otis Withington. 
Simon Warren. 
James Robinson. 
Moses Withington. 

7. Isaac Dearborn. 

8. David S. Coolidge. 

9. Charles Stearns, Jun'r. 

10. John Keurick. 

11. Samuel A. Robinson. 

12. James Bartlett. 

13. Oliver Whyte. 

14. Samuel Clark. 

15. Artemas Newell. 

16. Clark L. Haynes. 

17. Willard A. Humphrey, 
is. Hugh M. Sanborn. 

19. Abraham H. Lambert. 

20. Jerathmael Davenport 
1849. 21. George Craft. 

1849. 22. Samuel Hills. 
William Terry. 
Charles Heath. 
Thomas Seaverns. 

26. George W. Stearns. 

27. Timothy Corey. 
Thomas N. Woodward 



(IT. S. C't.) 



1850. 
1850. 



1S49. 
1850. 



23. 
24. 
25. 



2.s. 



The above list was approved as a list of Jurors by the 
Town, March 13, 1848. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toivn Clerk. 

Sixth Article in the warrant came up for consideration, 
and it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three be chosen to confer 
with the Water Commissioners of the city of Boston concern- 
ing land which has been taken from the Road for the Reser- 
voir, also upon the subject of lowering the road over Brad- 
ley's Hill, so called, and report at an adjournment of this 
meeting the result of such conference. 

Mess. Benjamin Goddard, Charles Heath, Daniel Sander- 
son, were chosen to attend to that service. 



268 



BrooMine Town Records. 



Voted, That the 7th Article, relating to laying out & 
building a Road on the west side of Town House, be indefi- 
nitety postponed. 

The 8th Article in the warrant was taken up and disposed 
of by the following vote : 

Voted, That the sum of Two Hundred Dollars be granted 
& appropriated for the purpose of laying down Flagging 
Stones across Washington Street, in the village, in four 
places, and that it be done by the Surveyor of that District, 
under the direction of the Selectmen. 

Voted, That the new road in the south part of the Town 
be annexed and become a part of Newton Street Highway 
District. 

Voted, That said New Road shall be called Grove Street. 

Voted, That the sum of Nine Thousand Dollars be raised 
b} r taxes, to be lawfully assessed, for defraying the expenses 
of the Town the present year, to be appropriated to the 
several purposes named, and according to the estimates rec- 
commended in the Auditors' report, to wit : 



For Support of Poor 
" " •• Schools . 

" " " Highways 

■■ Fire Department 

■■ County Tax .... 

" Assessing & Collecting Taxes 

" Abatements on Do. 

" Town Officers .... 

" Repairs of Buildings 

'• Repairs of Heath St. 

" Music in Schools 

'• Extinction of Town debt 

" Payment of interest on Do. 

•• Contingencies .... 

Deduct Balance in Treasury 

" Income from Hall. Scales, &c. 





$1000 




3000 




1200 




500 




700 




400 




280 




27 5 




200 




100 




100 




1000 




100 




500 




$9655 


500 




155 


655 



To be raised by Tax 



$9000 



Voted, That the sum of Five Hundred Dollars be granted 
and appropriated for the purpose of providing an assistant in 
the High School and to defray the expense of instruction in 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 13, 1848. 269 

music, in addition to the sum already appropriated for 
schools. 

Voted, That the sum of one Hundred and Ten dollars be 
appropriated for building the wall on the east side of the 
Town House, according to the reccommendation of the com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized 
to borrow, when needed, on behalf of the Town, such sum 
of money, not exceeding Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars, as 
may be necessary to meet the expenses of the Town, in antici- 
pation of the payment of the Taxes. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed 
to prosecute all violations of the License Laws in the Town 
of Brookline. 

Voted, That the sum appropriated for highways be assessed 
in the same manner as all other Taxes are assessed in this 
Town, and collected into the Treasury with other Taxes, and 
that each Highway Surveyor be allowed to draw from the 
Treasury the same proportion heretofore allowed the district 
over which he is appointed, whenever the Selectmen shall 
approve his bill. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it adjourn to meet 
again at half-past four o'clock on Monday afternoon, April 
the 3d, 1848. 

Voted, To adjourn. 

A true record of proceedings. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



270 Broohline Town Records. 



WARRANT FOR SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 3, 1848. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Broohline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to assemble at 
the Town Hall, on Monday, the Third day of April next, at 
one o'clock in the afternoon (at which time and place the 
polls will be opened), and to bring in to the Selectmen their 
votes for a Representative to Congress for District number 
Eight, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of 
John Quincy Adams, until the fourth of March, 1849. 

Also to notify the said inhabitants to meet at said Town 
Hall, at half-past three o'clock P. m., on the said third day 
of April, to act upon the following articles, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen, who were 
requested by vote of the Town to lay out a road on the east side of the 
Town House, and to see if the Town will accept the same. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place above named. 
Given under our hands and seals this Twenty-Third day of 
March, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty- 
eight. 

James Bartlett, } Selectmen 
H. M. Sanborn, > of 
Bela Stoddard, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Brookline, March 30, 1848. By virtue of this warrant I have notified 
the said inhabitants to meet at the time and place and for the purposes 
within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the house of every voter 
in said Town. 

See file E, No. 51. A. H. Clapp, Constable. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, April 3, 1848. 271 



SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, APRIL 3, 1848. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Polls were 
opened by the Selectmen for the votes of the inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline for a Member of Congress, and were 
kept open two hours and a half, and closed by vote of the 
Town. 

The votes were sorted & counted by the Selectmen ; the 
result was found to be as follows : 

Whole number of Ballots given in < >ne Hundred & Ten. 1U>. 

Horace Mann of Newton Received Eighty. 80. 

Edgar K. Whitaker of Needham " Twenty-six. 26. 

William Jackson •■ Newton " Two. 2. 

Appleton Howe •• Weymouth " One. 1. 

Theodore Lyman •• Brookline " One. 1. 

The votes were sorted & counted, the returns signed by 
the Selectmen & Town Clerk and sealed up in open Town. 
Meeting. The return was then placed in the hands of our 
Representative, John Howe, Esq., to be by him transmitted 
to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

The second Town Meeting, as called by the Warrant, was 
then* organized by the choice of James Bartlett, Moderator. 

The Second Article in the warrant, in relation to laying 
out a road or street on the East side of the Town House, 
was taken up, and the Selectmen, by their chairman, made 
the following report : 

SELECTMEN'S REPORT ON NEW ROAD. 

At the Annual Meeting, held by adjournment on the 13th of March, 
1848, it was voted that the Selectmen be requested to lay out a Road on 
the easterly side of the Town House, agreeably to the reccommendation 
of a former committee. In compliance with such request, the Selectmen 
have laid out said road, with an understanding with the owners of land 
adjoining, that, if said road is accepted and established by the Town, it 
shall be constructed without any expense therefor to the Town, except 
the land over which it is located, now belonging to the Town. 

It is located according to the following described bounds and admeas- 
urements : Commencing at the stone post on Washington Street on the 
west side of the entrance to the Town House lot, it being fifteen feet 
from the easterly line of the Toavu's land, and running north over land 
of the Toavii 182£ feet, and over lands of Dr. Wild & John Gibbs 172 



272 Brookline Town Records. 

feet to Mechanic Place, which line makes the westerly bounds of said 
Road. The easterly side of said road commences at Washington Street 
on land belonging to the Holden Estate, 30 feet east of said stone post, 
and running northerly over land of Thomas Seaverns 118 feet to Mechanic 
Place. Said road is 354£ feet in length and 30 feet in width, and contains 
10635 square feet of land, to wit : 

Land belonging to the Town House lot . . . 2737^ feet. 
Dr. Wild & Gibbs . . . 2580 " 
" " Holden Estate .... 3547J " 

" " Thomas Seaverns . . . 1770 " 

All of which is submitted, 

James Bartlett, ~\ Selectmen 
H. M. Sanborn. \ of 
Bela Stoddard, J Brookline. 
Brookline, March 24, 1848. See file No. 52. 

Voted, To accept of the Report. 

Voted, That the Street laid out by the Selectmen be 
accepted and adopted by the Town, on the condition that the 
said Road or Street be completed to the satisfaction and 
acceptance of the Selectmen within the year 1848, without 
expense to the Town either for its construction or for the 
land over Avhich it is located, other than the land now owned 
by the town. 40 in favor & 21 adverse to it. 

Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



SECOND ADJOURNMENT OF ANNUAL MEETING. 

In pursuance of the adjournment March 13th, the meeting 
was called to order by the Moderator, Mr. Bartlett. 

Benjamin Goddard, Esq., on behalf the committee that 
was chosen at the meeting on the 13th March to confer with 
the Water Commissioners in relation to the land taken for 
Reservoir from the Road, and in regard to reducing Bradley's 
Hill, &c, made a report, which will be found on [274] page. 

Voted, That the vote passed at the annual meeting on the 
13th March, appropriating One Thousand Dollars for reduc- 
ing the Debt of the Town, be reconsidered. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 3, 1848. 273 

Voted, That One Thousand Dollars be appropriated for 
lowering Bradley's Hill, agreeably to the reccommendation 
in the report of the Committee. 

Voted, That the sum of Two Hundred Dollars be taken 
from the sum appropriated for the support of Schools and 
applied to finishing the lower school room in the old Town 
House for the further accommodation of the high school, 
and that the School Committee be authorized to cause said 
room to be furnished with desks and seats, and otherwise 
finished in a manner similar to the upper room in said build- 
ing. File E, 52^. 

Voted, To reconsider the. vote by which Two Hundred 
Dollars was appropriated for laying Flagging Stones in the 
Village. 

Voted, That the sum of One Hundred Dollars be appro- 
priated for Flagging Stones, to be laid under the direction 
of the Selectmen. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized and directed to 
forthwith to cause to be placed around the Town House such 
number of Posts as may be deemed necessary for the pur- 
pose of securing the horses of such as ride to the Town 
House, to be placed ten feet apart. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be hereby directed to dispose 
of the Iron Safe now belonging to the Town, and to procure 
one more suitable for the Town, in which the records of the 
Town may be kept at the Clerk's Office, and that the addi- 
tional sum of One Hundred Dollars be hereby appropriated 
for that purpose. 

Hugh M. Sanborn was chosen Pound Keeper in place of 
Charles Smith, excused. 

REPORT OF TOWN CLERK IN RELATION OF TOWN SEAL. 

Agreeably to the provisions of the By-laws of the Town, the Town 
Clerk, under the direction of the Selectmen, has caused to be prepared a 
Common Seal for the use of the Town. It is engraved upon steel, and 
represents a group of agricultural and farming implements, a view of 
the City of Boston in the distance, with a train of cars running between 
the two places; and bearing this inscription : " Muddy River, a part of 
Boston. Founded 1630. Brookline incorporated 1705." 

The design is intended to be emblematical of the character of the Town 
from its early settlement, when designated and known as Boston Corn- 
18 



274 Brookline Toivn Records. 

field & Boston Plantation, to the present time. — the inscription to perpet- 
uate, in a degree, its early historical associations. It was executed by 
Mr. Francis N. Mitchell, of Boston, and cost, including one hundred 
embossed impressions, a press which may be used for copying, with 
Book, &c, Fifty-Six dollars. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Brookline, March 6, 1848. A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Voted, That the report be accepted and the Seal adopted 
as the Seal of this Town. See tile 53. 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE. 

The committee chosen at an adjournment of the Town Meeting, 13th 
March, to confer with the Water Commissioners of the City of Boston 
concerning the land which has been taken from the road for the reser- 
voir ; also, upon the subject of lowering the road through Bradley's 
Hill, so called, have attended to that duty, & report that, by previous 
appointment, we met the Commissioners at their office in Boston, and 
passed the forenoon with them, & were rec'd respectfully as agents in 
behalf of the Town of Brookline ; they appeared disposed, while attending 
to the interests of the city, to give due attention to the interests and 
wishes of the inhabitants of the Town of Brookline. After considering 
the subject in all its bearings, our conference ended in the result con- 
tained in their proposition herewith presented,— all which is submitted 
for the action of the Town thereon. 

Benj. Goddard, 
Charles Heath, 

Bkookline, April 3, 1848. Daniel Sanderson. 

PROPOSALS OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS. 

The Water Commissioners, in consideration of the encroachment of 
the bank wall of their Reservoir upon the Street, and of the desire of the 
inhabitants of Brookline to reduce the level of the Street through Brad- 
ley's Hill, will agree to pa} T to the Town of Brookline the sum of $ 1000, 
on condition that the said Street through the said hill shall be lowered 
not less than four feet on or before the 15th day of June next, and on 
the further condition that the City of Boston shall be saved harmless 
against any claim for damages for encroachment upon the said Street to 
the extent indicated on the plan of the reservoir, as the same is now laid 
out. And in case the said Town shall not agree to reduce the said Street, 
the Water Commissioners agree that they will lay their pipes in the Street 
through Bradley's Hill so low that the Street may be safely lowered five 
feet, at least, at any time hereafter, on condition that the City shall be 
exonerated from any claim for damages as aforesaid. 

Boston, March 1G, 1848. 

Voted, That Benjamin Goddard, Charles Heath, Daniel 
Sanderson, James Bartlett and Jesse Bird be a committee 
with authority to contract with the Commissioners of the 



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275 



City of Boston, upon these conditions, to wit : That the City 
shall pay One Thousand Dollars if the Town will cause the 
road through Bradley's Hill to be lowered not less than four 
feet, and the City to be saved harmless against any claim on 
the part of the Town of Brookline for damage for land taken 
from the road, as indicated on the plan of the Reservoir ; 
such contract to further provide that the city shall cause the 
finish of the top of the road through the excavation to be 
done with stone or chips of stone & gravel to the width of 
thirteen feet and the depth of twelve inches, and also that 
a sufficient time can be agreed upon to effect the object ; the 
foregoing terms being assented to on the part of the Com- 
missioners, the Town hereby fully authorizes the committee 
now appointed to contract with them and to pay the sum of 
One Thousand Dollars, and no more, provided that the sum 
of not less than Five Hundred Dollars shall be raised by vol- 
untary subscription and appropriated for the object. See 
file E, No. 54. 

Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Militia Boll for 1848- 



David S. Coolidge 
Dewey Hascock 
Charles Whittemore 
Charles Coolidge 
James Coolidge 
An'y Harrington 
John Nugent 
David Hussey 
William J. Griggs 
John B. Libbey 
Benj'n Smith 
Orange Buck 
Benj'n Owen 
Geo. Bell 
James Hobbs 
Stephen G. Bass 
Charles D. Perry 
Chandler Berry 
I. R. Atwood 



Morril S. Beau 
Sylvester Kimball 
Geo. N. Butters 
John Webb 
William Webb 
Hiram A. Greene 
Stephen S. Piper 
P. B. Park 
William A. Morse 
Geo. D. Austin 
John Mcintosh 
William Piper 
John C. Piper 
Allen Vinal 
A. H. Lambert 
C. P. Trowbridge 
N. W. Brackett 
Abram C. Small 
A. "W. Seamans 



Thomas B. Griggs 
Oliver G. Pray 
Hezekiah Shailer 
Moses Withington 
Prancis H. Corey 
Charles Bartlett 
Thomas Healey 
Geo. T. Bartlett 
Amos Whittemore 
Woodbury Kenister 
Samuel Cowdall 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin Crawford 
Jeremiah Shoft' 
Preeman Ward 
Geo. W. Patten 
W. W. Snell 
M. C. Warren 
Stephen R. Griggs 



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Brookline Town Records. 



B. F. Baker 
Charles C. Annable 
Joseph Little 
Samuel Little 
Wm. Can- 
Joseph Silver 
Geo. F. Homer 
Francis Homes 
David Wilder, Jim. 
A. W. Jones 
D. H. Rogers 
Thomas Seaverns 
Levi H. Barnard 
Ozias M. Page 
John Gustin 
Charles Tayler 
David Morrison 
John E. Trevett 

Calvin Smith 

Lewis Payne 

Amos R. Binney 

Homer Binney 

William C. Binney 

George Atkinson 

Stephen Blanchard 

Horace Cousens 

F. A. Stone 

George Griggs 

Andrew H. Newell 

Geo. Stoddard 

Oliver Whyte 

William Bird 

David Whitney 

Aaron Whitney 

Henry Whitney 

William C. Cuningham 

Willard A. Humphrey 

Willard S. Brewer 

Russel T. Bean 

Thomas Davenport 

Parker Ellis 

Franklin T. Bean 

John Melcher 

E. D. Sanderson 
Samuel Hills, Jun. 
Charles G. Colbath 
George Craft 
Charles Craft 



James M. Seamans 
Isaac Farrington, Jun. 
Charles Lord 
Charles Staples. 
G. C. George 
Charles L. Palmer 
William H. Palmer 
Ransom N. Weld 
Ivory Ross 
Oliver B. Delano 
Joshua A. Little 
James Edmoin 
Ellis Austin 

John Kenrick 

William Aspinwall 

Moses R. Brown 

Sumner Brown 

Charles W. Wild 

Josiah Barrett 

Geo. W. Atkinson 

Thomas T. Allan 

Isaac Allard 

Hiram Allard 

Thomas Penniman 

Charles Penniman 

William W. Field 

Eben Reecl 

Lorenzo Willis 

Harvey Wait 

John G. Rider 

Simon Warren 

John W. Warren 

Albert Sanderson 

Charles Smith 

J. S. Warren 

Samuel Townsend, Jun. 

Thomas C. Quimby 

Almon B. Allard 

Daniel S. Sanderson 
Seth B. Hoyt 

Joseph L. White 
William White 
Joseph Gutterson 
James E. Cabot 
Stephen Wing- 
Caleb Craft, Jun. 
George W. Goodnough 
Xanthus Goodnough 



James Coggswell 
Henry Mellin 
James Dyer 
Win slow Chapin 
Ansel Waterman 
Thomas Lyford 
Thomas Lee 
John Frazer 
Samuel Cushing 
Elkanan Foss 
Stephen Foss 
Woodbury Mosier 
James Frize 
Richard Savage 
Samuel Ellis 
Geo. Hill 
Samuel Clark 
H. Bradbury 
John A. Bird 
Daniel A. Oliver 
Henry W. Carr 
Eben Frost 
Edward Atkinson 
William P. Sanderson 
Edward N. Perkins 

.lames Ward 

Caleb Kenrick 

Uriah Blaisdell 

S. G. Snelling 

Henry Weeks 

Samuel Eliot 

Janthus J. Rolfe 

Henry Post 

A. W. Goddard 

John Cosgrove 
. Ivory Whales 

James Greenough 

David Leavett 

Hiram Waldron 

Josiah Quimby 

William J. Hyde 

Amos Wormed 

Africa Wormell 

John Bean 

James Trainer 

Alvin Roundy 

Geo. W. Goldsmith 

Geo. Hancock 203 



Attest : A. Newell, Town CVk. 



Presidential Election, November 7, 1848. 277 

At a meeting of the Selectmen of Brookline, held on the 
2d day of October, 1848, on the petition of sundry inhab- 
itants of Brookline to have certain suitable locations assigned 
for the exercise of offensive trades & employments dangerous 
to the public health, agreeably to the provisions of the 21 
chapter of the Revised Statutes, the following described 
locations were assigned by the said Selectmen : 

The lands lying not less than twenty rods west of the 
residence of Jane Crafford and between that and Newton 
line on the old road, Heath Street, also the land lying not 
less than twenty rods westerly of the small house owned by 
T. N. Woodward, on the northerly side of Newton Street, 
and between that and Newton line on said Newton Street. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7, 1848. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. ) 
Brookline. 5 To the Constables of (he Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to assemble in the 
Town Hall in said Town, on the Tuesday next after the first 
Monday in the month of November next, being the seventh 
day of said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, (at which 
time the polls will be opened), then and there to give in 
their ballots for twelve Electors of President & Vice-Presi- 
dent of the United States ; each ballot for such electors to 
contain the name of at least one inhabitant of each congres- 
sional district of this commonwealth, all to be voted for on 
one ballot. 



278 Brookline Town Records. 

You are also hereby directed to notify and warn the said 
Inhabitants of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to 
assemble at said Town Hall, on Thursday, the 9th November 
next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the following 
purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed at the 
last Annual Meeting to confer and contract with the Water Commis- 
sioners of the City of Boston in regard to reducing the level of the road 
over Bradley's Hill. 

You are also hereby directed to notify and warn the said 
Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline, qualified to vote in 
elections, to assemble at the Town Hall in said Town, on the 
second Monday of the month of November next, being the 
thirteenth day of said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, 
(at which time the polls will be opened), then and there to 
determine by vote whether the Town will send a Representa- 
tive to the next General Court, and to give in their votes for 
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth, 
three Senators for Norfolk County, for a Representative to 
Congress for the Eighth District, and for a Representative to 
the next General Court if the Town so determine ; all the 
above named officers will be voted for on one ballot. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time & place of said first named 
meeting. 
Given under our hands & seals this Twent} r -seventh day of 

October, A. D. 1848. 

James Bartlett, ) a 7 . 
-do ' <■ /Selectmen. 

Bela Stoddard, 5 

See file E, No. 55, for officer's return. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Presidential Election, November 7, 1848. 



279 



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1848. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the polls were 
opened at one o'clock p. m. by the Selectmen, on the Seventh 
day of Nov., 1848, and were kept open two hours, and the 
question was submitted to the Town what time the Polls 
should close, and it was voted that they remain open until 
five o'clock, when they were closed. 

The votes were sorted & counted by the Selectmen & 
Town Clerk, and the result found to be as follows, to wit : 
Whole number of Ballots given in, Three Hundred & Twenty-five. 



Electors at Large 
Levi Lincoln 
Edmond Dwight 
Charles G. Greene 
Henry H. Child 
Samuel Hoar 
Effingham L . Capron 
William Jackson 
Wendall Philips 



of Worcester 212. 



Boston 

Boston 

Pittstield 

Concord 

Worcester 

NeAvton 

Boston 



212. 
68. 
68. 
44. 

1. 
44. 

1. 



Two hundred & Twelve. 

Two hundred & Twelve. 

Sixty-Eight. 

Sixty-Eight. 

Forty-four. 

One. 

Forty-four. 

One. 



Elector for District Number one 



Albert Fearing of Boston 213. 
Francis Jackson of Boston 1. 
James Cheever of Boston 68. 
Joseph Willard of Boston 44. 

Elector for District No. Two : 
David Piugree of Salem 
Ebenezer W. Stacy of Gloucester 
John B. Alley of Lynn 
James N. Buffum of Lynn 



Two hundred & Thirteen. 

One. 

Sixty-eight. 

Forty-four. 



213. 

68. 
43. 

1. 



Elector for District Number Three : 
Daniel Adams of Newbury 212. 

Edwin Lawrence of Newburyport 68. 
John G. Whittier of Amesbury 44 

William Ashley of Newburyport 1. 

Elector for District number Four : 
Isaac Livermore of Cambridge 212. 
Timothy Fletcher of Charlestown 68. 
Nathan Brooks of Concord 44. 

Amos B. Alcott of Concord 1. 

Elector for District number Five : 
Benjamin F. Thomas of Worcester 213. 
J. S. C. Knowlton of Worcester 68. 
Alexander DeWitt of Worcester 43. 
Stephen S. Foster " Worcester 1. 



Two Hundred & Thirteen. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-Three. 

one. 

Two hundred & twelve. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-four. 

one. 

Two hundred & twelve. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-four. 

one. 

Two hundred & thirteen. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-three. 

one. 



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Brookline Town Records 



Elector for District Number Six : 
Myron Lawrence of Belchertown 213. 
Joseph Smith of Hatfield 68. 

James Fowler of Westfield 43. 

E. D. Hudson of Springfield 1. 

Elector for District number Seven : 
Asa Howland of Conway 212. 

Samuel Gates of West Stockbridge 68. 
Thomas Robinson of Adams 44. 

Gains Carter of Becket 1. 

Elector for District number Eight : 

H. A. S. Dearborn of Roxbury 212. 

William Ellis of Dedham 68. 

Benjamin V. French of Braintree 43. 
Edmund Quincy of Dedham 1 . 



Two hundred & thirteen. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-three. 

one. 



Two hundred & twelve. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-four. 

one. 



Two hundred & twelve. 

Sixty-eight. 

forty-three. 

one. 



Elector for District Number Nine : 
William Baylies of West Bridgewater 213. 
Foster Hooper " Fall River 68. 

Philo Leach of Bridgewater 43. 

Bourne Spooner of Plymouth 1. 



Two hundred & thirteen. 

Sixty-Eight. 

Forty-three. 

One. 



Elector for District Number Ten : 
William R. Easton of Nantucket 213. 

James D. Thompson of New Bedford 68. 
Isaac C. Taber of New Bedford 43. 

Joseph Congdon of New Bedford 1. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Two hundred & Thirteen. 

Sixty-eight. 

Forty-three. 

One. 



SPECIAL MEETING, NOV. 9, 1848. 

In pursuance of the warrant entered on page [278] the 
Inhabitants of the Town of Brookline met at the Town Hall 
at 3 o'clock p. m. The meeting was called to order by the 
Town Clerk, and James Bartlett was chosen Moderator. 

The following report was made by Benj. Goddard, Esq., 
in behalf of the committee for lowering Bradley's Hill : 

The committee appointed by the Town on the 4th of April, 1848, with 
authority to contract with the Water Commissioners of the City of 
Boston, have attended to that duty: the said Commissioners having 



Special Meeting, November 9, 1848. 281 

agreed to pay the Town of Brookline One Thousand Dollars towards 
lowering the road through Bradley's Hill not less than four feet, & to 
stone the travelling path thereof, the city to be saved harmless against 
any claim for damages on the part of the Town aforesaid for land taken 
from the road as indicated on the plan of the reservoir. These condi- 
tions having been assented to, your committee thereupon contracted Avith 
Hugh M. Sanborn & David Whitney to reduce said road, instead of four, 
to the depth of six feet, and to increase the width on the northerly side 
of said road by building abutments of stone Avail. &c, agreeably to their 
contract on tile, which has been faithfully fulfilled according to their 
account hereAvith presented, amounting to $3125 dollars, and has paid 
to them in full, as follows : 

From the Water Commissioners aforesaid .... $1000 

Town of Brookline 1000 

" private subscription 760 

your committee, for advances 365 



83125 



Which leaves the Town indebted to your committee for ad- 
vances for money borrowed of the Bank . . . 310 
And the interest on the same ....... 6 97 

And Twenty-five dollars advanced to pay balance of Sanborn 

& Whitney's account, by B, Goddard .... 2~> 



$371 97 



Benjamin Goddard, 
Jesse Bird, 
Chaku.s Heath, 
James Babtlbtt, 
Daniel Sanderson. 

Voted, To accept the report of the committee. 

Voted, That the sum of three hundred & seventy-one 
dollars & ninety-seven cents be hereb} r appropriated for the 
payment of the balance due to the committee appointed by 
the Town to contract for lowering & improving the road 
through Bradley's Hill, as appears by their report this day 
presented, & that the Treasurer be & he is hereby directed 
to pay the said sum to said committee from the Treasury 
forthwith, & to borrow on behalf of the Town a sum of 
money to replace the same whenever necessary to meet the 
drafts upon the Treasury. 

The meeting was then dissolved. See file E, No. 56. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



282 Brookline Town Records. 



NOVEMBER MEETING FOR CHOICE OF GOV- 
ERNOR, &c. NOV. 13, 1848. 

In pursuance of the warrant copied on to page [278] the 
Inhabitants of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall ; the 
meeting was called to order at one o'clock precisely. 

It was Voted, That the Town of Brookline send a Repre- 
sentative to the next General Court. 

Voted, That the Polls will be kept open until five o'clock 
this afternoon. 

At five o'clock precisely the Polls were closed, the votes 
sorted & counted by the Selectmen & Town Clerk, the result 
found to be as follows : 

The whole number of ballots given in for Governor was Two Hundred & 
Eighty-Two, to wit : 

George N. Briggs of Pittsfleld had One hundred and ninety-nine. 

Stephen C. Philips of Salem had Forty-Six. 

Caleb Cushing of Newburyport Twenty-five. 

Charles G. Greene of Boston Ten. 

Charles D. Greene " Do. one. 

Francis Jackson " " one. 

Whole number of ballots given in for Lieutenant-Governor was^ Two 
Hundred & Eighty-four, to wit : 

John Reed of Yarmouth Two Hundred. 

Henry W. Cushman of Bernardstown Thirty-Six. 
John Mills of Springfield Forty-seven. 

Andrew Robeson of New Bedford one. 

Whole number of Ballots for Senators for Norfolk County was Two 
Hundred & Eighty-four : 

David A. Simmons of Roxbury has One hundred & Ninety-eight. 

James C. Doane " Cohasset One hundred Ninety-nine. 

Lewis Harding " Franklin One hundred Ninety-nine. 

Joel Hunt of Medway Thirty-Six. 

Isaac Tower of Randolph Thirty-Six. 

Aaron Hobart of Wrentham Thirty-six. 

Jesse Pierce of Stoughton Forty-nine. 

Milton M. Fisher of Medway Forty-Eight. 

Edward L. Keyes " Dedham Forty-Six. 



Special Meeting, February 5, 1848. 283 

Whole number of Ballots for Representative to Congress for District 

number Eight was Two Hundred & Eighty-two : 
Horace Mann of Newton has Two Hundred & Forty-five. 
Bradford L. Wales of Randolf Thirty-Six. 
Augustus Aspinwall one. 

Whole number of ballots for Representative to General Court was Two 
Hundred & Seventy-Seven. 
Necessary for a choice one Hundred & Thirty-nine. 
James Bartlett had Thirty-Eight. 
Augustus Aspinwall " Forty-seven. 
John Howe One Hundred & ninety-two, and is Elected. 

The result of the balloting was declared by the chairman, 
the returns were signed by the Selectmen & Town Clerk 
and sealed up in open Town Meeting, & the meeting dis- 
solved. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, FEBRUARY 5th. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said Town on Monday, the 5th day of February 
next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the following pur- 
poses, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To act upon an order of notice from the Legislature upon the peti- 
tion of Otis Pettee and others for a Railroad from Boston through the 
Town of Brookline to Woonsocket, R. I. 

3. To see whether the Town will take any action in relation to widen- 
ing some of the Streets in this Town. 



284 Brookline Town Records. 

4. To see if the Town Avill make an appropriation for the purpose of 
defraying the expense of necessary repairs of the Fire Engine, providing 
new Axletree, a quantity of Hose, Drag rope, neAV Buckets, painting, &c. 

Hereof foil not, & make due return of this warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time & place of said 
meeting. 

Given under our hands & seals this twenty-sixth day of Jan- 
uary, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. 

C James Bartlett. 
/Selectmen of Brookline. < H. M. Sanborn. 

( Bela Stoddard. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Jan. 29, 1849. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the Inhabitants 
therein named to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein 
named, by leaving a notification at the residence of each voter. 

Franklin Tukey, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. File E, No. 57. 



TOWN MEETING, FEBRUARY 5, 1849. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant, the Inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall for the pur- 
poses expressed. 

The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, & 
Dea. Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator. 

The 2d Article in the warrant, to act upon the order of 
notice from the Legislature upon the petition of Otis Petee 
& others for a Railroad through Brookline, &c, came up 
for discussion. The subject was fully and thoroughly dis- 
cussed, both in favor and against the project, by several gen- 
tlemen present, and finally disposed of by laying the whole 
subject on the table, b} r a very large majority. 

The 3d Article in the warrant, in relation to widening 
some of the Streets in the Town, was taken up for consider- 
ation, and it was — 



Annual Meeting, March 5, 1849. 285 

Voted, That a committee of five, to be hereafter chosen, 
cause a survey to be made of such roads as in their judg- 
ment need widening or straightening, and report to the Town 
as soon as possible the names of such roads, and in what 
manner they should be widened or straightened, with an esti- 
mate of the probable expense of following out their recom- 
mendations. 

Mess. Samuel Philbrick, Thomas Griggs, Daniel Sander- 
son, Charles Stearns, Jun., and Abijah W. Goddard were 
chosen to attend to that duty. 

Article 4th, in relation to Engine, repairs, &c, was taken 
up for consideration, and settled by the following vote : 

Voted, That the sum of five hundred dollars be and is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the 
expenses of the necessary repairs of the Engine, furnishing 
New Hose, &c, to be paid from any unappropriated funds 
in the Treasury, to be expended under the supervision of the 
Selectmen, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry 
into effect the improvements mentioned in the warrant. 

Voted, That this meeting be dissolved. 

Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1849. 



WARRANT. 

[SEAL.] 

[seal.1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, the fifth day of March 
next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, for the following pur- 
poses, to wit : 



286 Brookline Town Records. 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To choose the necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year. 

3. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and Committees. 

4. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

5. Te see if the Town will take any action " concerning the licensing, 
regulating and restraining dogs going at large." 

6. To see if the town will make a division of Newton Street Highway 
district. 

7. To see if the Town will sell to Charles Pope a small piece of land 
back of the Town House, to straighten the line between his land & that 
of the Town. 

8. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary 
to meet the expenditures of the Town the ensuing year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon. 
Given under our hands and seals this twenty-third day of 

February, A. D. 1849. 

James Bartlett, ~) Selectmen 
H. M. Sanborn, > of 
Bela Stoddard, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 2, 1849. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline herein described to meet at said time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the 
house of every legal voter in said Town of Brookline. 

A. H. Clapp, Constable. 
A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. File E, No. 58. 



Brookline, March 5, 1849. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline assembled at Town Hall this day at one 
o'clock & five minutes. 

The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, who 
presided in the choice of a Moderator, who was chosen by 
the written ballots of the Voters present ; the balloting 
resulted in the choice of George F. Homer, Esq., Moderator. 



Annual Meeting, March 5, 1849. 287 

The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, who 
directed all present to be seated and to remain uncovered 
while Prayers were offered by the Rev. Win. H. Shailer. 

It was voted to proceed to the choice of Town Clerk to 
serve for the ensuing year. 

Artemas Newell was chosen Town Clerk by written ballots. 

The Town Clerk was forthwith sworn by the Moderator to 
the faithful discharge of the duty. 

Voted, To hear the reports of Town Officers and Com- 
mittees. 

William I. Bowditch, Esq., in behalf of the Auditing 
Committee, made a report, which had been already printed 
and circulated over the Town, a copy of which will be found 
on file E, No. 59. 

The same was accepted. 

Mr. Bowditch, in behalf of the School Committee, made 
a report. 

Voted, That the report be accepted, and that three hun- 
dred copies be printed and distributed, under the direction 
of the School Committee. 

George Griggs, Esq., in behalf of Mr. Jones, the Town 
Treasurer, made a report of the receipts and disbursements 
during the past year, to wit : 

REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1849. 

Receipts. — From balance of cash received from A. Newell, former 
Treasurer, 421.43; from sundry persons for use of Town Hall, 35.00; 
from sales of gravel, 9.30; Thomas Dillon, Pedlar's Licence, 6.00; Mar- 
ket Bank loan, in anticipation of taxes, 2500 — less by interest, 56.25 ; 
Commonwealth, for support of paupers, 220.80 — less by income from 
school funds, 56.67; from Mess. Seamans, proceeds of Hay Scales during 
the year ending Feb. 1, 1849 ; from taxes levied for the year 1848, 9810.02 
— less by the amount of abatements, 190.62; from interest collected on 
taxes, 22.80. Total receipts into the Treasury, 12927.84. From which 
deduct payment to Bank of loan, 2500; leaves the available funds, 
$10427.84. 

Expenditures, $10570 06 
Whole amount received, 10427 84 



Leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of $142 22 
S. S. C. Jones, Treasurer. 



288 Brookline Town Records. 

REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE. 

The Cemetery Committee of the Town of Brookline respectfully ask 
leave to report : That the receipts of money since the last report have 
been 80.00; balance from the last report, 258. 4<i — $338.46. Disburse- 
ments for the same period, 17.87; leaving balance in the Treasury, 
$320.59. From returns by the Sexton, it appears that the number of 
interments has been Thirty-two ; of this number five were from other 
towns. 

All of which is submitted, by order of the Committee, 

Brookline, March 5, 1849. Jesse Bird. 

Voted, That the report be accepted. File E, No. 60. 

Voted, That the Auditing Committee lay before the Town 
every year, at the annual meeting in March, an estimate of 
the probable receipts and expenditures for the year then 
ensuing, and in order that such estimate may be exact, all 
the Town Officers and Committees are required to send in to 
the Auditors an estimate of the probable expenses in their 
several departments. 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of three Selectmen. 

The first balloting resulted in the choice of but one — Mr. 
James Bartlett. 

Second balloting : 

Mess. Marshall Stearns & ) , , 

> Selectmen. 
Samuel Craft were chosen > 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 

Mess. Charles Stearns, Jun., \ were chosen 
Thomas Griggs, & > Assessors 

Abijah W. Goddard ) by ballot. 

Mr. Moses Withington was chosen Treasurer by ballot. 
Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector of Taxes. 
Voted, To proceed to the choice of a School Committee 
to consist of five. 

The balloting resulted in the choice of Mess. Eev. William 
H. Shailer, Joseph Haven, Jun., Frederick N. Knapp, Sam- 
uel Philbrick, George F. Homer — School Committee. 

N. B. — In the choice of Selectmen and Town Clerk, as above entered, 
the check list was used by the Moderator. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toicn Clerk. 



Annual Meeting, March 5, 1849. 289 

Voted, That the polls now be opened for County Treasurer. 

After the close of the polls for County Treasurer, the votes 
were sorted & counted by the Moderator and Town Clerk. 

Whole number of votes given, Sixty-nine. 69. 

John Bui lard, Esquire, of Dedham, received the whole 
number — Sixty-nine. 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of the remaining Town 
Officers by nomination. 

Highway Surveyors. 
The following named persons were chosen : 

For Harvard Street District. Moses Jones. 

" Washington " " Timothy Corey. 

" Walnut " " Samuel Philbrick. 

" Warren " " Charles Warren. 

" Heath " " Warren Whyte. 

" Clyde " " Samuel Hills. 

" Newton " " George Craft. 

" Boylston " Westeru District, Simon Warreu. 

" Brighton " " William White. 

" Boylston " Eastern " Hugh M. Sanborn. 

" Grove " " Caleb Craft, Jun. 

Voted, To choose three Firewards. 

Seth T. Thayer, Augustus Allen, Oliver White, were 
chosen Firewards. 

Clark L. Haynes & Samuel Clark were chosen Fence 
Viewers. 

Voted, To choose Four Constables. 
A. H. Clapp, 
F. Tukey, 
H. M. Sanborn ^ were chosen Constables. 

James M. Seamans, J 

Voted, To choose ten Field Drivers. 

Samuel A. Walker, Henry Corey, Samuel Clark, Charles 
Warren, Mark W. Sheafe, Samuel Hills, George Craft, 
Simon Warren, William White, H. M. Sanborn, were chosen 
Field Drivers. 

Elisha Stone, James M. Seamans, were chosen Surveyors 
of Wood & Lumber. 

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290 Brookline Town, Records. 

Doct. Charles Wild, Abijah W. Goddard, William I. 
Bowditch, were chosen a Committee for Auditing Town Ac- 
counts. 

Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

The following named gentlemen were chosen Prudential 
School Committee : 

David Coolidge for North District. 

Warren White " Middle " 

Simon W. Clifford " South 

Article 5th, in relation to restraining dogs, came up for 
consideration, and was disposed of by the following vote : 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to draw 
up a by-law providing for the licensing and taxing dogs and 
restraining them from going at large, and bring the same 
before the adjournment of this meeting. 

Messrs. Samuel Philbrick, William I. Bowditch & James 
Bartlett were chosen to attend to that duty. 

Voted, unanimously, That this meeting hereby express 
their thanks to Mr. William I. Bowditch for his valuable, 
efficient and faithful services as a member of the School Com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn, it adjourn to the 
19th inst. (two weeks from to-day), at 3 o'clock in the after- 
noon. 

Voted, To adjourn. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



In conformity of the laws of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant to Constable Clapp 
to summon the several persons who had been chosen to 
office, who were required to take an oath, to appear before 
said Clerk within seven days from the receipt of such sum- 
mons, and take the oath to qualify them for the discharge of 
the duties of the several offices to which they have been 
chosen, respectively. 



Annual Meeting, March 5, 1849. 291 

Norfolk, ss. 

Then personally appeared the persons hereafter named 

and took the oath required by law to qualify them for the 

discharge of the duties of the several offices to which they 

have been chosen : 

March 7. A. H. Clapp, as Constable. Sworn. 

" Augustus Allen signified his acceptance as Fireward. 

" Samuel Craft declined to serve as Selectman. 

8. Setli T. Thayer signified his acceptance as Fireward. 

9. Oliver Whyte signified his acceptance as Fireward. 

Moses Witniugton sworn as Treasurer .<. Collector of Taxes. 
" Mark W. Sheafe declined to serve as Field Driver. 
10. Henry Corey sworn as Field Driver. 
" Simon Warren " " Field Driver & Highway Surveyor. 

12. Samuel Hills " " Field Driver & Highway Surveyor. 
" H.M.Sanborn " ■• Field Driver, Highway Surveyor & 

Constable. 
" James M. Seamans " " Measurer of Wood & Lumber & 

Constable. 

" Franklin Tukey " " Constable. 

13. Warren White sworn to serve as Highway Surveyor. 

" Charles Warren sworn as Field Driver, declined to serve as 

Highway Surveyor. 
" Timothy Corey " " Highway Surveyor. 
" George Craft " " Highway Surveyor & Field Driver. 

Then personally appeared the persons hereafter named and 
took the oath required by law to qualify them for the dis- 
charge of the duties of the several offices to which they have 
been chosen, respectively : 

March 14. Elisha Stone sworn as Measurer of Wood & |Lumber. 

16. William White " " Highway Surveyor & Field Driver. 

19. Samuel A. Walker " " Field Driver. 

" Samuel Philbrick " " Highway Surveyor. 

" Marshal Stearns declined to serve as Selectman. 

" Charles Smith declined to serve as Pound Keeper. 

22. James Bartlett sworn as Selectman & Overseer of the Poor, &c. 

" Jerathmael Davenport sworn as " " " " 

24. William Dearborn " " " " " " 

." John Houlihan " " Pound Keeper. 

26. Samuel Townsend, Jun. " " Field Driver. 

27. John Howe " " Surveyor of Highways. 
April 3. Caleb Craft, Jun. " " " " " 
May 1. Charles Stearns, Jun., sworn as an Assessor. 

Thomas Griggs " " " 

Abijah W. Goddard " " " 

Sept. 3. Moses Jones " as Highway Surveyor. 



292 Brookline Town Records. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, 1849. 

Pursuant to the adjournment, the Inhabitants of the Town 
assembled at the Town Hall on Monday, the 19th day of 
March, 1849, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, and 
the Sixth Article in the warrant was taken up in relation to 
dividing Newton Street Highway district. 

Voted, That the district now called Newton Street district 
be divided into two districts, and that Newton Street from 
Newton line to Clyde Street be one district, to be called 
Newton Street district, and that Grove Street and South 
Street comprise one district, to be called Grove Street 
district. 

Voted, That the subject of the 7th Article in the warrant, 
in relation to the line of Charles Pope, be refered to a com- 
mittee of three, who are to report at a future meeting of the 
Town. 

Mess. Samuel Philbrick, Thomas Griggs, Joshua C. Clark, 
were chosen to attend to that duty. 

Voted, To proceed to till any vacancies which may exist 
in Town Officers. 

Mess. Jerathmael Davenport & William Dearborn by 
ballot were chosen Selectmen in place of Marshal Stearns & 
Samuel Craft, who declined to serve. 

Mess. Jesse Bird, Harrison Fay & Aug's. Aspinwall were 
chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Caleb Craft, Jun., was chosen Highway Surveyor for 
Grove Street Highway district. 

John Howe was chosen Highway Surveyor for Warren 
Street district, in place of Charles Warren, who declined to 
serve. 

Samuel Townsend, Jun., was chosen Field Driver, in 
place of M. W. Sheafe, who declined to serve. 

Marshal Stearns was chosen Fence Viewer. 

John Houlihan was chosen Pound Keeper, in place of 
Charles Smith, who declined to serve. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 19, 1*49. 293 

Charles Stearns, Jan., was chosen Prudential School Com- 
mittee for North District, in place of David Coolidge, who 
declined to serve. 

Voted, To take up the 8th Article in the warrant, in rela- 
tion to grants & appropriations. 

Voted, That the sum of Eleven Thousand dollars be raised 
by taxes to be lawfully assessed, for defraying the expense 
of the Town the present year, to be appropriated to the 
several purposes named, according to the following esti- 
mates, to wit : 



For the Support of the Foor $1000 

Schools 3500 

" " Highways, including Grove street district . . 1275 

For Comity Tax 850 

Fire Department ....... . 500 

New Hose Carriage 60 

Repairs of Engine, New Hose. &c. ...... 500 

Collecting Taxes 165 

Abatement of Taxes 280 

Town Otticcrs 600 

Repairs of buildings 200 

Towards extinction of town debl 1200 

Interest on Town debt 400 

Contingencies 500 

Mending Highways, &c, as pr. report of Committee . . 200 

For extra repairs of Cypress Street 75 

si 1305 

Deduct probable receipts from ( lommonwealtb ^v other sources 305 

Leaving the amount to be raised by Taxes . . . S11000 



Voted, That no appropriation be made for the instruction 
of Musick in any of the Schools. 

Voted, That the Treasurer & Collector be paid one & a 
half per cent commission for all money received for taxes by 
him, provided said commission does not exceed $200 for any 
one year. Also, to pay him Thirty Dolls, per annum for 
services as Treasurer. 

The committee that was appointed at the last meeting to 
draw up a By-Law for restraining & regulating dogs, reported 
a By-Law, which was accepted with some amendment and 
recommitted to the same committee, who are to have the 



294 Brookline Town Records. 

same legally completed by submitting it to the Court of 
Common Pleas & publishing in a newspaper in the County. 
File E, 60^. The same will be found entered with these 
records, page [296]. 

Mr. Philbrick, in behalf of the committee that was ap- 
pointed in February last to examine and report in regard to 
widening Streets, &c, made the following report, to wit : 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WIDENING STREETS. 
To the Town of Brookline, in Town meeting assembled: 

The Committee appointed by the Town at their meeting in February 
last, to cause surveys to be made of such roads as in their judgment 
need widening, &c, ask leave to report: That the long continuance of 
cold weather, and snow on the roads, have hitherto prevented the required 
surveys, but your Committee have examined, as a preliminary step, most 
of the roads in the Town, and finding the places which most require 
widening to be on the County Roads, which properly come under the 
jurisdiction of the County Commissioners, have concluded, before pro- 
ceeding further in discharge of the duty assigned them, to submit the 
following reccommendations, to be adopted by the Toavu if approved : 

1st. That a Committee, to be appointed for that purpose, should 
forthwith petition the County Commissioners to widen the County roads 
in the following places, viz. : On the estate of Timothy Corey ; also, on 
the estate of S. A. "Walker opposite the Hay scales, on the road called 
Washington Street ; on the estates of Mrs. Thomas White & others, at 
the Eastern end of the road called Walnut Street ; on lands owned by the 
First Parish, and Dr. Eustice & Ignatius Sargent & John E. Thayer & 
Wm. H. Cowen, all on the road called Warren Street ; on sundry estates 
in different parts of the road called Clyde Street ; on the estates of John 
Howe & others & D. Dowse on the road called Brighton Street. 

2d. Your committee Avould also recommend that instructions be given 
to the Selectmen to lay out as a public Street the passageway now called 
Mechanic Place, on Harvard Street, and continue the same through to 
Washington Street, over the passage way bounding on the Estate of T. 
Leeds & over lands owned by Dr. Chas. Wild, John Gibbs, & the Town ; 
no part of Avhich to be less than thirty feet in width, and when laid out 
to be graded so that no part of it shall be above the level of two feet 
below the sills of the Town House, before it shall be opened for public 
travel ; and that the new street laid out the past year on the eastern side 
of the Town House, from Washington Street to Mechanic Place, be also 
graded to the above named level. And that School Street be widened so 
that no part shall be less than thirty feet in width. 

3d. Your committee would further reccommend that an appropriation 
be now made of two hundred dollars for the following purposes, viz. : 
One hundred dollars to blast the rocks for widening the passage way and 
to raise the wall on the opposite side of Timothy Corey's land on Wash- 
ington Street. Fifty dollars to blast the rocks to widen the passageway 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 19, 1849. 295 

towards the bottom of the hill & to raise the valley below on Cottage 
Street by Isaac Cook's estate, and fifty dollars for blasting the rocks to 
widen the passage way on Walnut Street opposite the Office of George 
Griggs, Esq., & to open several bridges in said street. The above named 
sums to be paid by the Treasurer to the several highway surveyors, to 
be by them applied to the purposes above named. 

4th. Your committee take the liberty of reccommending to the several 
highway surveyors now appointed, and to those which may be hereafter 
appointed to that office, the adoption and execution of the following 
improvements in grading the streets : That Harvard Street, opposite 
Mechanic Place, be lowered about two feet, and raised one foot or more 
opposite School Street. That School Street be lowered at the western 
end two feet or more, and raised one foot or more at the eastern end. 
That Washington Street be graded so as to crown in the middle, with a 
gutter for the water on the northern side all the way from Harvard 
Street to School Street, and that a bridge be laid across the street in the 
valley between the houses of Leeds & Hall, and that the street be lowered 
opposite Mrs. Tolman's estate one foot or more. That Clyde Street be 
lowered at the eastern commencement of the Spoouer place. 

All which is submitted, 

Brookllne, 19th March, 1*49. Samuel Philbrick:, 

See file E, No. 61. Chairman of the Committee. 

Voted, That the report of the committee be accepted, and 
that the reccommendations therein contained be adopted. 

Voted, That the same committee who have just reported, 
to wit, Mess. Samuel Philbrick, Thomas Griggs, Daniel 
Sanderson, Charles Stearns, Jun'r, and Abijah W. Goddard, 
be a committee to petition to the County Commissioners 
forthwith to widen the county roads according to the rec- 
commendations in said report. 

Voted, That the sum of Two Hundred dollars be appro- 
priated for the purposes reccommended in the foregoing 
report. 

Voted, That the sum appropriated for highways be assessed 
in the same manner as all other taxes are assessed in this 
Town, and collected into the Treasury with other taxes, and 
that each Surveyor of Highways be allowed to draw from 
the Treasury the same proportion heretofore allowed the 
district over which he is appointed, whenever the Selectmen 
shall approve his bill. 

Voted, That the sum of Seventy-five dollars be appropri- 
ated for Grove Street Highway district. 



296 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the sum of Seventy-five dollars be appropri- 
ated in addition to the sum already allowed to Harvard 
Street district, for the improvement of Cypress Street. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow, when 
needed, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, in 
anticipation of the payment of taxes. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed 
to prosecute all violations of the Licence Laws in the sale of 
intoxicating drinks. See file E, 62. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



BY-LAW OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE. 

Adopted March 19, 1840. Approved by the Court of Common Pleas, 
April L'6, 1849. 

Section 1. From and after the first day of May, 1849, no person shall 
own, keep or harbor a dog in this town without taking out a licence, as 
herein provided, for each dog, under a penalty of ten dollars for every 
dog he shall so own, keep or harbor without a licence. 

Section 2. The Town Treasurer shall issue to any person a licence 
for the purposes mentioned in the first section, on receiving payment of 
two dollars. He shall keep a record of all licences issued, and they shall 
expire on the thirtieth da} 7 of April in each year. 

Section 3. In case any dog shall be found in this town out of the 
enclosure of its owner, keeper or harborer, without having a collar on, 
Avith the owner's, keeper's or harborer's name and place of residence 
legibly marked thereon, the owner, keeper, or harborer of such dog 
shall forfeit and pay ten dollars for every time that such dog is found at 
large from the enclosure of the owner or keeper without a collar. 

Section 4. The individual who shall first inform the Treasurer of the 
name of any person who has not complied with, or has incurred any 
liability under any of the provisions of this By-law. shall be entitled to 
the bounty of one dollar therefor, the same to be payable on conviction 
of the delinquent. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to prosecute 
forthwith every infraction of this By-Law which shall come to his 
knowledge, or of which he shall be informed. 

Section 5. This By-Law shall not extend to any dog not owned or 
kept in this Town. 

A true copy. Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Militant Roll, 1849. 



297 



Military Boll for 184.0. 



Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
Simon Pomroy 
William Ryder 
Joseph Allen 
Francis Coolidge 
Charles Whittemore 
James Hinkley 
James Coolidge 

A. J. Harrington 
John B. Libby 
Willard Jackson 
Charles Coolidge 
N. G. Chapin 
Charles Berry 
Oliver Cousens 

B. F. Baker 
J. W. .Tones 

D. II. Rogers 
Thomas Seaverns 
George Stoddard 
Oliver Whyte 

E. F. Cotting 
Levi Barnard 
John E. FaAvcett 
John Giistin 
Thomas Walton 
John W. Bowers 
Omar Binney 
Sylvester Kimball 
Geo. W. Butters 
A. Jackson 
Thomas Miley 
John Park 
Nathaniel Sawyer 
Thomas Andrews 
John Hunt 

Alfred Kenrick, Jun' 
Adraniram Taylor 
John Weld 
William Hardy 
Marshal Glazier 
Warren Hyde 
George Hill 
Samuel Clark 
John A. Bird 
H. Bradbury 
David Milk 



Luther Stone 
Harvey James 
.1. Anson Guild 
X. W. Brackett 
Joseph Pond 
Roscoe Greene 
Benj. W. Clark 
Edward Eddy 
Benj. P. White 
A. W. Seamans 
James M. Seamans 
Abijah ( . Stone 
.lames Morse 
Hazen Brodbary 
James Dyer 
Benj. W. Ib-bart 
Crighton Buggies 
Horace Waters 
Ransom X. Weld 
James Edmond 
LaFayette Thaj er 
W. 1. Butler 
( reo. W. Atkinson 
Stephen P. Allen 
Reuben Wyman 
Oliver G. Pray 
Daniel Jennings 
( lharles Howe 
F. Henry Corey 
John E. Porter 
Enoch S. Reed 
Charles Bartlett 
William Pandexter 
George T. Bartlett 
Amos Whittemore 
Woodbury Kenister 
Charles W. Porter 
Timothy Corey 
Jeremiah Schott" 
Calvin 1). Crawford 
M. C. Warren 
William s. Andrews 
George W. Patten 
William Leonard 
Benj. N. Jewett 
Thomas C. Pettiugill 
Amos Fairbanks 
Willard S. Brewer 



Stephen R. Griggs 
Edward R. Secomb 
Augustus Griggs 
Isaac Taylor 
Charles Mellen 
Henry A. Mellen 
Charles W. Scudder 
John X. Turner 
Charles 0. Howe 
Henry W. Jameson 
Thomas H. Bacon 
C. B. Dana 
E. A. Dana 
l'lina E. Kingman 
( lharles Pope 
William Pope 
Henry W. Stone 
John II. Dane 
Chas. F. Harrington 
Winslow Chapin 
Thomas H. Russell 
Nath'l Lyford 
Jonathan D. Long 
Ivory Ross 
Beware Littleneld 
W. W. Clement 
Geo. S. Cushing 
Charles L. Palmer 
Joshua A. Little 
Charles True 
James Bradford 
Peter W. Pierce 
James M. Edwards 
Oliver B. Delano 
Elkana Foss 
Daniel Staples 
Henry P. Martin 
Thomas Gordon 
W. B. Blake 
Daniel Miller 
John Webb 
Samuel Ellis 
Woodbury Mosher 
William White 
John Foster 
Seth Hoyt 
J. E. Cabot 
Walter Cabot 



298 



Brookline Town Records. 



Daniel A. Oliver 
Henry W. Can- 
Emerson Leland 
Eben'r Frost 
Edward Atkinson 
George Atkinson 
William P. Atkinson 
Horace Cousens 
Patrick Dillon 
George Griggs 
A. H. Newell 
D. S. Kendall 
Wm. W. Cook 
John 0. Libby 
Robert Miles, Jun. 
Augustine Shurtleft' 
A. H. Knight 
George Hancock 
Rufns Goodwin 
William J. Hyde 
Samnel Hills, Jun. 
Simon W. Clifford 
George W. Goodnough 
Thomas B. Cowen 
Whole number 214 



Russel I. Bean 
Abel Miliken 
Charles Bean 
Charles Smith 
E. D. Sanderson 
E. T. Penniman 
M. B. Williams 
Eben Reed 
Lorenzo Willis 
Nath'l Went wort li 
Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
J. S. Warren 
Samuel Townsend, Jun. 
Thomas Townsend 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
John H. Henshaw 
Joseph L. White 
Ira Bean 

Henry E. Hunting 
Soloman Slack 
George Craft 
Isaiah Caverlv 



John Howe, Jun. 
Frank E. Howe 
Charles Warren 
Jonathan Sias 
Charles D. Head 
George J. Perry 

Edward 

Charles French 
S. G. Snelling 
Samuel Eliot 
James D. Cheever 
Franklin Bean 
Ivory Wales 
William Wales 
Thomas Parsons 
William G. Weld 
Hiram R. Waldron 
Drew Waldron, 1. 
George Rogers 
Stephen Wing 
Chas. G. Colbath 
Charles Craft 
Joseph Gutterson 



— returned to the Adjutant-General May 29, 18-10. 
Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, JULY 2d, 1849. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constable of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet 
at the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, the second 
day of July next, at four o'clock in the afternoon, for the 
following purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To consider the propriety of offering a large reward for the detec- 
tion of the incendiarv'or incendiaries who caused the destruction of 



Special Meeting, July 2, 1849. 299 

the stable of Tlios. H. Perkins, Jun., on the 23d inst., and attempted at 
sundry other times to set on fire buildings in this Town ; and to take 
such other precautionary measures as may be deemed advisable. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time & place. of said meeting. 

Given under our hands & seals this Twenty-eighth day of 
June, A. D. 1849. 

James Bartlett. Seal. 
J. Davenport. Seal. 

William Dearborn. Seal. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have this day notified each voter to meet 
at the within mentioned time and place by leaving a printed notification 
at his last and usual place of abode. 

Franklin Tukey, Constable of Brookline. 
Brooklink, June 30th, 1849. 
A true copy. Attest ; A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline met at the Town Hall on Monday, 
the 2d day of July, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 

The meeting was called to order, and Augustus Aspinwall, 
Esq., was chosen Moderator. 

The second article in the warrant came up for considera- 
tion, and after a lengthy discussion the following votes 
were passed : 

Voted, unanimously, That the Selectmen be authorized to 
offer a reward of one thousand dollars to be paid to any 
person or persons who shall give such information as will 
lead to the detection and conviction of any person or per- 
sons who has or who shall designedly set fire to any dwelling 
house or barn in this town during the year 1849. 

Voted, That the further sum of one thousand dollars be 
placed at the disposal of the Selectmen, with authority to 
expend the same in such manner as they in their judgment 
shall consider as most likely to lead to the detection of any 
person or persons who has or who shall designedly set fire 
to any building, or who has, or who shall, commit any bur- 
glary in this Town during the year 1849. 

Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 

Attest : A. Newell, Toion Clerk. 



300 Brookline Town Records 



SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 10th, 1849. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Brookline : 

You are required, in the name of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the 
Town Hall on Monday, the tenth day of September next, at 
two o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to 
wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To act upon an order of notice from the County Commissioners, 
upon the petition of George Griggs and others for a public road in the 
Town of Brookline, from the end of the Mill Dam Road to Brighton 
Street, or to the line of the Town of Brighton near the house of Joseph 
White in Brookline. 

3. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for draining Wash- 
ington Street near Harvard Church. 

4. To see if the Town will refund the taxes and lines which have been 
received into the Treasury consequent upon the Dog Law, and pay the 
expenses which may have accrued in compelling payment of Taxes and 
Fines on account of said law. 

5. To see if the Toavii will make any modification or alteration in the 
Dog-law. 

6. To see Avhether the Town will appropriate one hundred dollars 
towards the support of an evening School for adults during the ensuing 
Winter. 

7. To see if the Town will purchase a piece of land to enlarge the 
cemetery. 

8. To see if the Toavii will adopt any different plan of keeping the 
Highway in repair. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time & place of said 
meetino-. 

Given under our hands this twenty-fifth day of August, A. D. 
1849. 

James Bartlett, ) Selectmen of 
J. Davenport, \ Brookline. 



Special Meeting, September 10. 1840. 301 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, September 4th, 1849. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified all the legal voters of the 
Town of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in Brookline at the time 
and place and purpose herein mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at 
their last and usual place of abode in said Brookline. 

A. II. Cl.ypf. Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall on this 
10th day of September, 1849. 

William I. Bo wd itch, Esq., was chosen Moderator. 

The Second Article in the warrant, in relation to the new 
road, came up for consideration, and after a protracted dis- 
cussion was disposed of by the following vote, which was 
passed by a very large majority : 

Voted, That a committee of five persons be now appointed 
to meet the county commissioners and to remonstrate, on 
behalf of the inhabitants of this Town, against the petition 
of George Griggs and others for a public road to be laid out 
from the northern end of the Mill dam road westerly through 
this Town to Brighton line, with instructions to use every 
lawful and proper means, and employ counsel if they deem 
it necessary, to prevent the granting of said petition. 

Voted, That said committee be appointed by the chair. 

Mess. Samuel Philbrick, Samuel Craft, Geo. F. Homer, 
J. Davenport, Artemas Newell, were appointed by the 
chairman. 

The third article came up for consideration, and it was 

Voted, That the subject of draining Washington Street, 
contained in the third article of the warrant, be refered to 
the Selectmen, with full power to make the proposed drain, 
provided they shall deem it expedient and necessary. 

Voted, That the sum of fifty dollars be granted for that 
purpose. 

Article fourth, in relating to refunding fines & taxes 
received into the Treasury on account of the dog law, was 
debated at some length, and it was — 

Voted, That the Town do not refund said Taxes & fines. 



302 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to pay the 
expenses that have accrued in compelling payment of taxes 
& fines on account of said Dog Law. 

Article 5th, in relation to altering the Dog Law : 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the 
chair, to report at this meeting such alteration as they shall 
deem expedient. 

Mess. Geo. F. Homer, Wm. Aspinwall & S. Philbrick 
were appointed. 

The committee forthwith retired, and made certain altera- 
tions & additions to the law, which they reported, and the 
same were adopted by the Town. 

The law, as now amended, reads as follows : 

Section 1. From and after the First day of May, 1849, no person 
shall own or keep a dog going at large in this town without taking out a 
license, as herein provided, for each dog, under a penalty of ten dollars 
for every dog he shall so OAvn or keep without a license. 

Section 2. The Town Treasurer shall issue to any person a license 
for the purposes mentioned in the first section, on receiving payment of 
two dollars. He shall keep a record of all licenses issued, and they shall 
expire on the thirtieth day of April in each year. 

Section 3. In case any dog shall be found in this town out of the 
enclosure of its owner or keeper Avithout having a collar on, with the 
owner's or keeper's name and place of residence legibly marked thereon, 
the owner or keeper of such dog shall forfeit and pay ten dollars for 
every time that such dog is found at large from the enclosure of the 
owner or keeper without a collar. 

Section 4. The individual who shall first inform the Treasurer of the 
name of any person who has not complied with, or who has incurred 
any liabilit3 r under any of the provisions of this By-Law, shall be entitled 
to the bounty of one dollar therefor ; the same to be payable on convic- 
tion of the delinquent. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to prose- 
cute forthwith every infraction of this By-Law which shall come to his 
knowledge, or of which he shall be informed. 

Section 5. This By-Law shall not extend to any dog not owned or 
kept in the Town. 

Section 6. All fines recovered under this By-Law shall be paid to the 
Treasurer of said Town to the use of said Town. 

Article 6th in the warrant came up for consideration, and 
it was — 

Voted, That a sum of money not exceeding one hundred 
dollars be taken from the appropriation for contingencies, 



Special Meeting, September 10, 1849. 303 

and appropriated toward the support of a school for adults 
during the ensuing winter. 

Article 7. In relation to enlarging the Cemetery, it was 

Voted, That the subject of enlarging our present cemetery 
be referred to a committee, with instructions to examine the 
adjoining land, also any other parcels of land which they 
may deem suitable for a cemetery, ascertain the prices 
required for each, and to report the result of their inquiries 
to a future meeting of this Town, with their opinions with 
respect to the most suitable location, having regard to the 
price and cost of preparation. Also the quantity of land 
which they may think advisable for the Town to purchase 
for the enlargement of the present Cemetery or for the con- 
struction of another. 

Voted, That said committee consist of five, and that the 
present cemetery committee constitute three of said com- 
mittee, and that two other persons be appointed by the Mod- 
erator. 

The Moderator appointed Mess. Samuel Philbrick & 
Thomas Griggs, which, with the Cemetery committee, stands 
thus: Samuel Philbrick, Thomas Griggs, Jesse Bird, Harri- 
son Fay, Augustus Aspinwall. 

On motion of Mr. Philbrick, the 8th article in the war- 
rant was disposed of by the following vote : 

Voted, That the subject contained in the 8th article of the 
warrant, concerning the adoption of some different plan for 
repairing our public roads, or streets, be referred to a com- 
mittee of five persons, with instructions to report the result 
of their deliberations at a future meeting. 

Voted, That said committee be chosen by nomination. 

Samuel Philbrick, James Robinson, Thomas Griggs, Daniel 
Sanderson, Abijah W. Goddard, were chosen as the com- 
mittee. 

The meeting was then dissolved. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



304 Brookline Town Records. 

Direction by Selectmen in regard to the location of posts, &c, 
of the Boston & Vermont Telegraph company. 

County of Norfolk, \ In conformity with the provisions of the Stat- 
Brookline, ss. Jutes of 1849, chapter 93, concerning Electric 
Telegraph Companies, the Selectmen of Brookline hereby give to the 
Boston & Vermont Telegraph company, whose line is to pass through 
said Town of Brookline, their writing specifying where the posts are to 
be located, the kind of posts to be used, the height at which and the 
places where the wires may be run, To wit : The posts are to be located 
on the westerly side of Harvard Street from Brighton line to the junction 
of Sewall's Avenue Avith said Harvard Street; thence crossing said Street, 
the posts are to be located on the easterly side of said Harvard Street, 
and following through said Harvard Street and Washington Street on 
the same side through the village to Roxbury line. The posts are to be 
good, substantial, straight, chestnut, cedar or spruce posts, of a large 
size for the place they occupy, to be trimmed and made free from knots. 
The wire to be placed at an elevation, on an average, of not less than 
twenty-two feet from the ground, to be so placed as not to interfere 
with the trees, growing on the sides of the streets, more than is abso- 
lutely necessary. The Selectmen reserving to themselves to direct such 
alterations in the location of said posts, wires, &c, as may be desired 
hereafter as provided in said act. 

Given under our hands at said Brookline this eleventh day of September, 
A. D. 1849. 

James Bartlett, | Selectmen 
J. Davenport, y f - D „„„ 1 . 1 -„ 
Wm. Dearborn, J °f Sr ookhne. 

A true copy, Attest : 
Rec'd and entered Sept. 11, 1849. A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



NOVEMBER ELECTION, 1849. 

| SEAL. J 

isEAL.j Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 

are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 

Town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 

the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday the twelfth day of 



General Election, November 12, 1849. 305 

November next, it being the second Monday in. said month, 
at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
polls will be opened : 

First. To determine whether the Town will send a Representative to 
the next General Conrt. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit: For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- 
monwealth, for three Senators for Norfolk County and a Representative 
to the next General Court, if the Town determine to send one. The 
officers above named are to be all voted for on one ballot. The polls to 
be kept opon not less than two hours. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals this 30th day of October, 
1849. 

Signed, James Bartlett, ~) Selectmen 
J. Davenport, of 

Wm. Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Nov. 3, 1849. 

In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified the legal voters in 
the Town of Brookline by leaving a printed copy at the residence of 
each voter, to meet at the time and place within mentioned. 

Franklin Tukey, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 

Agreeably to the foregoing warrant, the polls were opened 
by the Selectmen at one o'clock precisely, this 12th day of 
November, 1849, and were kept open by vote of the town 
until a quarter past five o'clock. 

First, Voted to send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

The voting then commenced, and at a quarter past five 
o'clock the polls were closed, the votes sorted and counted 
by the Selectmen & Town Clerk, declaration of the result 
made by the Chairman of the Selectmen, the returns signed 
by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and sealed up in open 
Town Meeting. 

The check-list was used, and no person was permitted to 
put in his ballot until his name was found on the list. The 

20 



306 Brookline Town Records. 

result of the ballotting, as declared by tbe presiding officer, 
is as follows : 

Whole number of ballots given in for Governor of this Commonwealth is 
Two Hundred & Sixty-four (264). To wit: 

George N. Briggs of Pittsfielcl has one hundred & Eighty-nine. (189) 
George S. Boutwell of Groton has Forty-five. (45) 
Stephen C. Philips of Salem has Thirty. (30) 

Whole number of ballots given in for Lieutenant-Governor is Two Hun- 
dred & Sixty- three (263). To wit : 

John Reed of Yarmouth has one hundred & eighty-eight. (188) 
Henry W. Cushman of Bernarclstown has Forty-five. (45) 
John Mills of Springfield has Thirty. (30) 

Whole number of ballots given in for Senators for Norfolk County is 
Two Hundred & Sixty (260) . To wit : 

Lewis Harding of Franklin has one hundred & eighty-seven. (187) 
Marshal P. Wilder of Dorchester has one hundred & eighty-six. (186) 
Lysander Richards " Quincy " one hundred & eighty-six. (186) 

Charles F. Adams of Quincy has Seventy-three. (73) 
Ezra Wilkinson of Dedham " Seventy-one. (71) 
Milton M. Fisher " Meclway " Seventy-two. (72) 
E. K. Whittaker of Needham " one. (1) 

Whole number of ballots given in for Representative to the next General 
Court is Two Hundred & Sixty. Necessary for a choice one hundred & 
Thirty-one. To wit : 

James Bartlett has forty-six. (46) 
Augustus Aspinwall " Thirty. (30) 
J. Davenport " Two. (2) 

Charles Heath " one. (1) 

Thomas Griggs " one. (1) 

Marshal Stearns one hundred & eighty (180), and was declared to be 
duly elected to represent the Town of Brookline in the Legislature 
of this Commonwealth to convene on the first Wednesday of Jan- 
uary next. 

The foregoing is a true and correct transcript of the pro- 
ceedings of the Town of Brookline at the General Election 
for the year 1849. 

Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Brookline and Brighton Boundary. 307 



BOUNDARY L*NES BETWEEN BROOKLINE & BRIGHTON. 
Perambulated Nov. 15, 184!i. 

Agreeably to notice in writing given on the 3d inst. to the Selectmen of 
Brighton by the Selectmen of Brookline (the most ancient of the two 
towns,) to meet on the fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1849, at two 
o'clock in the afternoon, to perambulate the boundary lines and renew 
the marks and bounds where necessary between said towns, the sub- 
scribers, selectmen of said towns of Brookline & Brighton, met at the 
time and place designated in said notice, and proceeded to perambulate 
the lines and to establish and agree upon the bounds and monuments, to 
wit : — 

First — Beginning at •• Smelt Brook'" where it empties into Charles 
River (the centre of said River immediately opposite said Brook is the 
line between the two Towns), thence following said Brook to where the 
original stream crossed the Western Avenue. 

Second — Thence from the point at said Avenue through the swamp 
and water to a stone monument marked B.B. by the edge of the swamp. 

Third — Thence in a straight line from the last named monument to a 
stone monument marked B.B. standing on the southerly side of the 
county road, called in Brookline, Harvard Street. 

Fourth — Thence to a stone marked B. set in the ground of Isaac Dear- 
born, opposite the land now or late of the heirs of Jonathan Livermore, 
thence continuing the same course to a stone monument marked B.B. 
standing on the easterly side of the road called Washington Street, at the 
corner of the land of said heirs of Jonathan Livermore, said last 
described line from Harvard Street to Washington Street being a 
straight line. 

Fifth — Thence to a stone monument marked B.B. set in the wall at the 
corner of the land of James Dana & Timothy Corej r , thence continuing 
in the same course to a stone monument marked B.B. standing on the 
westerly side of the county road nearly opposite the house of Joseph 
White, said last described line being a straight line from the monument 
on Washington Street to the monument in the road near Mr. White's. 

Sixth — Thence to a stone monument standing in the meadow land of 
John Kingsbury marked N.B.B., which monument forms the corner 
bounds between Newton, Brighton & Brookline. 

James Bartlett, \ Selectmen A. Newell, Town Clerk of Brookline. 
J. Davenport, J- of Reuben Hunting, \ Selectmen of 

Wm. Dearborn, J Brookline. John Gordon, J Brighton. 

A true copy. Attest : A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



308 Brookline Town Records. 



PERAMBULATION BETWEEN NEWTON £ BROOKLINE. 

We the undersigned, Selectmen of Newton & Brookline, hereby certify 
that we have this third day of November, A. D. 1849, perambulated the 
lines between said Towns, and find the several bounds and monuments 
as follows, viz. : — 

1st. A stone monument marked R.B.N, near the westerly edge of 
Troublesome Swamp (so called), which forms the corner bounds between 
Roxbury, Newton and Brookline. 

2d. Thence to an Iron monument on a large rock in Caleb Crafts' pas- 
ture, marked N.B. 

3d. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the northerly side 
of the road near and westerly of the saw-mill. 

4th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. in Stake Meadow (so 
called), which monument makes a corner. 

5th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the corner of the wall near 
Stake Meadow. 

6th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. in the wall by land of Capt. 
Clark's. 

7th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the northerly side 
of the road near where formerly stood the house of A. Hyde. 

8th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the southerly side 
of Worcester Turnpike. 

9th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the westerly side 
of the road by land of Daniel Kingsbury. 

10th. Thence to an abutment stone marked N.B. at the end of a wall 
on land of the heirs of Joseph Lee. 

11th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. in a Swail. 

12th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the end of a wall. 

13th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. on the wall at the end of a lane. 

14th. Thence to stone monument marked N.B.B. in land of John 
Kingsbury, which forms the corner bounds between Newton, Brookline 
and Brighton. 

All of which bounds and monuments we have agreed to. 

James Bartlett, ~\ Selectmen Isaac Hagar, 

J. Davenport, > of Stephen W. Trowbridge, Selectmen 

William Dearborn, J Brookline. Nathan Crafts, J- of 

A. Newell, Benj. W. Kingsbury, | Newton. 

Town Clerk of Brookline. Ephraim Grover, 



Newton Incorporated 1691. Brookline Incorporated 1705. 

A true copy. Attest: A. Newell, Town Clerk. 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 309 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 4th, 1850. 



fSEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of 
Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on 
Monday, the fourth day of March next, at one o'clock in the 
afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2. " choose the necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year, and 

determine the compensation of the Town Treasurer and Collector of 
Taxes. 

.".. To hear and act upon the Reports of Town officers and committees. 

4. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

"). To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purpose of 
reducing the hill in South Street, near the Roxbury line. 

C. To see if the Town will accept as a public highway a portion of 
Goddard avenue and that part of Avon Street which lies in Brookline. 

7. To hear and act upon a Report of the Selectmen setting forth the 
boundaries and admeasurements of the widening of School Street and 
the laying out as public highways the Avenue called Mechanic Place, and 
a new street leading from Washington Street to School Street west of 
the Town House. 

8th. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- 
sary to meet the expenditures of the Town the current year and to pay 
off a portion of the public debt. 

9th. To see if the Town will reconsider the vote passed September 10, 
1849, in regard to laying out a new road from the end of the Mill Dam to 
Boylston Street or the line of the Town of Brighton near the house of 
Joseph White. 

10. To see what action, if any, the Town will take respecting the 
order of notice from the County Commissioners respecting said road. 

11. To see if the Town will grant any and what sum of money for the 
purpose of building said road. 

12. To act upon an order of notice from the Legislature upon the 
petition of Geo. F. Homer and others that all that part of the City of 
Roxbury lying North of Brookline Branch of the Mill Dam, with the 
inhabitants thereof, may be set off from the City of Roxbury and annexed 
to the Town of Brookline. 



310 Brookline Town Records. 

Hereof foil not, and make return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this twenty- 
third day of February, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hun- 
dred & fifty. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Feb. 28th, 1850. In pursuance of the within 
warrant, I have notilied the Inhabitants of said Town to meet at the 
time and place and for the purposes therein expressed, by leaving a 
printed notification at the residence of each voter, 

II. M. Sanborn, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest: WILL. A.SPINWALL, Town Clerk. 

Brookline, March 4, 1850. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of 
the Town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall this day 
at one o'clock in the afternoon. The meeting was called to 
order by Artemas Newell, Esq., the Town Clerk, who read 
the warrant, and presided during the election of a Moder- 
ator by written ballots ; the balloting resulted in the choice 
of William I. Bowditch, Moderator, who again called the 
meeting to order, and directed all present to listen to the 
prayer by the Rev. William H. Shailer. 

The meeting proceeded to choose a Town Clerk for the 
ensuing year by written ballots. 

William Aspinwall was chosen Town Clerk. 

The Town Clerk was sworn by the Moderator to the faith- 
ful discharge of the duties of the office. 

Voted, To pass over the second article in the warrant and 
proceed to the third, and hear and act upon the Reports of 
Town Officers and Committees. 

Mr. James Bartlett, in behalf of the Selectmen, presented 
and read a report of the places where Guide posts and 
Boards are erected and maintained by the Town, which will 
be found on file F, No. 2. 

The Report was accepted and is recorded in these Records 
page [319]. 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 311 

Doctor Charles Wild, in behalf of the Auditing Commit- 
tee, made a report, which had already been printed and 
distributed throughout the Town, and a copy of which will 
be found on File F, No. 3. The Report was accepted. 

Mr. Moses Withington presented the Report of the Town 
Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, of the Receipts and 
Expenditures during the past year and of the balance on 
hand, as follows : 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

Receipts: — From Commonwealth for support of Paupers, 81:12.82; 
from Bank of Brighton, loan in anticipation of taxes, $2500.00, less by 
interest, $00.25 — 2433.75; from George F. Homer, Esq., income from 
School fund, §09.28; from seventy-two dog licenses, §144.00; from John 
J. Clarke, the fine imposed on Samuel Goddard for keeping a dog without 
a license, $10.00; from City of Boston, for repairs of Boylston Street, 
§300.00; from sundry persons, for use of Town Hall, $78.50; from Epis- 
copal Society, for use of Town Hall to Feb. 1. I860, §07.00; from Thomas 
Dillon, for Pedlar's license. sO.no ; from A. \V. & J. M. Seamans, pro- 
ceeds of Hay scales one year. $102.55; from A. Xcwell, sale of Town 
Maps, §4.00; from interest on sundry taxes, §12.9 1 : from Taxes assessed 
for the year 1849, $11762.70, less by amount of abatements $189.00, tax 
not paid $241.50=$11332.20=$14753.01 ; deduct payment to Rank of 
Brighton of loan, §2500.00, leaves the available funds $12253.01. 
Expenditures : — Whole amount to Feb. 21, 1850. $10977.42 ; whole amount 
received. $12253.01; whole amount expended, $10977.42; leaving balance 
in the hands of the Treasurer, $1275.59 $12253.01. 

Respectfully submitted, Brookxine, Feb. 21. 1850. 
Moses Withingtok, Treasurer. 

This Report was accepted, and is on File F, No. 4. 
Mr. Jesse Bird, in behalf of the Cemetery Committee, pre- 
sented their report, as follows : It is on File F, No. 5. 

REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE. 

The Cemetery Committee of the Town of Brookline respect fully ask 
leave to report: That the Receipts of monev since the last Report have 
been "... §120 00 

Balance from last report 320 59 



s440 59 
Disbursements for same period 42 18 



Leaving balance in Treasury of • . . . . $398 41 

The number of lots now remaining unsold is Eight. From the returns 
made by the Sexton, it appears there were twenty-eight interments 
within the town, of which number eleven were brought from other 
towns. All of which is submitted. By order of the Committee, 

BiiooKLiNK, Mar. 4th. 1850. Jesse Bird. 



This report was accepted. 



312 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the funds in the hands of the Cemetery Com- 
mittee be paid into the Treasury of the Town, and that the 
Committee be authorized to make the annual improvements 
in the grounds, and draw upon the Treasury for the funds to 
meet such expenditures, and that hereafter the proceeds 
from the sales of all Cemetery lots shall be paid into the 
Treasury, so that for the future the Auditors' Report will 
show the receipts and expenditures for that object. 

Mr. Samuel Phil brick presented the Report of the Com- 
mittee appointed at the last annual meeting with instructions 
to present a petition, on behalf of the Town, to the County 
Commissioners for the County of Norfolk, requesting them 
to alter the public streets within the Town by widening them 
in various places. The Report was accepted. 

Voted, That the report of the Committee on the subject 
of widening streets be accepted and adopted, and that the 
sum of Fourteen Hundred Dollars be hereby granted and 
appropriated for the purpose of blasting, grading and com- 
pleting for public travel all such parts of the streets in this 
town as have been altered or widened by the County Com- 
missioners the past year, and that said sum of Fourteen 
Hundred Dollars be assessed on the polls and estates of the 
resident and non-resident inhabitants, and collected in the 
same manner that all other Town expenses are assessed and 
collected ; and that the same be held by the Treasurer, sub- 
ject to the order of the Selectmen, for the purpose above 
named. 

Said Report is as follows : See File F, No. 6. 

The Committee chosen by the Town of Brookline at their annual 
meeting in March, 1S49, with instructions to present a petition on behalf 
of the Town to the County Commissioners for the County of Norfolk, 
requesting them to alter the public streets within the Town by widening 
them in various places, are now prepared to report : That in conformity 
with said instructions, a petition for the purpose above named was duly 
presented to the said Commissioners, who, in accordance therewith, 
after examination of the streets and a full hearing of the parties inter- 
ested, proceeded, on the 22nd day of August last, to locate and make 
alterations, according to our said petition, in the several places herein- 
after described, as will more fully appear by an examination of the 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 313 

returns of their doings made by the Commissioners to the Town under 
date of 26 December, 1849, and now on file in the Town Clerk's office. 
They have altered Walnut Street by widening it on land of the heirs of 
Thomas Wbyte, dec'd, on land of the heirs of Oliver Whyte, dec'd, and 
on land of Samuel A. Walker. They have altered Warren Street by 
widening it on land of the first Parish, on land of Judge Eustis, on land 
of Ignatius Sargent, on land of the heirs of G. Murdock. dec'd, on land of 
John E. Thayer, and on land of W. II. Cowan. They have altered Clyde 
Street by widening it on land of W. II. Cowan at the corner of Warren 
Street, on land of Thos. II. Perkins, on land of W. 11. Gardiner, on land 
of Josiah Seaverns, and <>n land of Samuel Hills or John Trowbridge, 
They have altered Brighton Street by widening it on land of John How. 
Jr., and Bonney, and on land of the heirs of 1). Dow se, dec'd. They have 
altered Washington Street by widening it on land of the heirs of Joseph 
Smith, deceased, and on land of Titno Corey. Plans or drawings of all 
parts of the streets which have been thus altered by widening, giving the 
width of the streets before and after said alterations, setting forth the 
metes and bounds and quantity of land taken in each place, have been 
procured by your Committee and deposited in the office of the Town 
clerk for examination and reference. After a careful review of all the 
alteration-, your committee have made the following estimate of the 
amount of money which will be required for grading the several parts, 
building protection bank-walls, blasting and preparing the whole for 
public travel, agreably to the requirements specified in the return of said 
Commissioners. First, on Walnut street: For grading against land of 
Thomas Whyte and of Oliver Whyte, deed, and land of S. A. Walker, 
Fifty dollars. $50. Second, on Warren Street, for blasting and grading 
againsl Parish land, one Hundred Dollars, $100. For blasting and 
grading against land of Judge Eustis, One Hundred dollars, $100.00. 
For grading against the Estates of I. Sargent and t;. .Murdock. Sevcnty- 
five dollars, $75.00. For grading against land of W. H. Cowan. Seventy- 
five dollars. $75.00. For grading againsl land of J. E. Thayer, Twenty- 
five dolls., $25,00. Third, on Clyde Street: For blasting and grading 
against lands of T. II. Perkins and W. 11. Gardiner, One Hundred dolls., 
$100.00. For grading against land of T. Seaverns, on northerly side, 
Thirty dolls., $30.00. For grading against land of S. Hills or Trowbridge 
and Seaverns, on Southerly side, Seventy-five dollar-. $75.00. Fourth, on 
Brighton Street: For grading against land of Howe and Bonney, Two 
Hundred Dollars, $200.00. For grading against land of heirs of D. Dowse, 
One Hundred Dollars. Fifth, on Washington Street : For blasting and 
against land of T. Corey, one hundred and seventy dollars, $170.00. For 
protection bank-wall against land of heirs of T. Smith, Northerly end. 
Fifty Dollars, $50.00. For protection bank-wall against laud of s'd heirs, 
southerly end, opposite the house of T. Corey, and for grading, Two 
Hundred dolls., $200.00. For raising wall and railing between the two last 
named places, Fifty Dollars, $50.00. Making a total amount of $1400. 
Your committee would recommend that a grant and appropriation be now 
made for carrying into eflect and completing the several alterations above 
named, and that the amount granted be subject to the order of the 



314 Brookline Town Records. 

Selectmen, and that instructions be given to the highway surveyors or 
Selectmen to complete the whole work as soon as circumstances will 
admit. Bkooklink. March 4th, 1850. 

Sam'l Philbrick, 
Thomas GbiGgs, 
D. Sanderson, 

< !harles Stearns, Jr., 
a. \v. goddard. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to forthwith notify 
in writing, all persons owning hinds whereon the Streets in 
this Town have been widened by the County Commissioners, 
to remove therefrom their walls and fences and such trees 
only as the Selectmen shall deem necessary for the proper 
grading and passing said streets, on or before the twenty- 
sixth day of June next, the time limited by the County 
Commissioners for that purpose. And that the Selectmen 
give further notice to said land owners that any neglect or 
omission on their part to remove said walls and fences or 
trees within the term of time above limited, will be deemed 
and considered a relinquishment of their right to all such 
walls, fences, or trees, for the use and benefit of the Town. 
And the Selectmen are hereby instructed to cause all such 
walls, fences, or trees, above named, as shall remain unmoved 
after the expiration of the time above limited, and which 
shall in any manner obstruct the proper grading or free 
passing of said streets, to be removed and sold for the benefit 
of the Town. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick presented the report of the com- 
mittee chosen by the Town at the meeting of the tenth of 
September, A. D. 1849, to devise some plan for repairing the 
public streets different from that hitherto practised ; which 
Report is on file F, No. 7. 

Said Report was accepted. 

The Rev. Joseph Haven, Jr., presented and read the 
Report of the School Committee. File F, No. 8. 

Voted, That the report of the School Committee be accept- 
ed, and that Four Hundred copies thereof be printed under 
the direction of the Committee. 

Voted, That the Town choose three Selectmen for the 
vear ensuing. 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 315 

The ballotting resulted in the choice of 
Mr. James Bartlett, ^ 

" Jerathmael Davenport, >as Selectmen, 
" William Dearborn, ) 

and they were sworn by the Moderator to the faithful dis- 
charge of their duty. 

Voted, That the Town choose three Assessors for the year 
ensuing. 

The ballotting resulted in the choice of Messrs. Thomas 
Griggs, Charles Steams, Jr., & John N. Turner, Assessors. 
Voted, To choose three overseers of the poor by nomina- 
tion and hand vote. 

Voted, That James Bartlett, Jerathmael Davenport and 
William Dearborn be overseers of the poor for the ensuing 
year. 

Voted, To choose a Town Treasurer by ballot. 
The ballotting by written ballots resulted in the choice of 
Moses Withington, Town Treasurer. 

Voted, To choose a Collector of Taxes by nomination and 
hand vote. 

Voted, That Moses Withington, the Town Treasurer, be 
Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That the Treasurer's salary for the ensuing year 
be fixed at the sum of Thirty dollars. 

Voted, To reconsider the vote fixing the salary of the 
Treasurer. 

Voted, That the Salary of the Treasurer for the year 
ensuing be fixed at the sum of one hundred dollars. 

Voted, That the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for 
the year ensuing be fixed at One Hundred and Fifty dollars. 
Voted, To choose five School Committee men for the ensu- 
ing year by written ballots. 

The balloting resulted in the choice of 
Rev. Mr. William H. Shailer, "] 
Mr. Samuel Philbrick, 

Rev. Mr. Joseph Haven, Jr., )> School Committee. 
Rev. Mr. Frederick N. Knapp, j 
Rev. Mr. William Horton, J 
Voted, That there be three surveyors of highways chosen 
for the ensuing year. 



316 Brookline Town Record*. 

Voted, That the report received from the Committee on 
the subject of repairing the public streets be accepted, and 
that (blank) are hereby accordingly chosen and elected to 
the office of Surveyors of Highways the ensuing year, to 
act jointly together in performing the duties of that office 
throughout the Town ; and they are hereby instructed to 
carry into effect the widening of the public streets, by blast- 
ing and grading all parts which have been laid out the past 
year by the County Commissioners, and to complete the 
same for public travel agreeably to the requirements of said 
Commissioners, as far as the appropriation, when applied 
according to the several estimates of the Committee, will 
admit. And said Surveyors are hereby further instructed to 
carry into effect, as far as in their judgment a proper and 
proportional use of the money granted for the repair of high- 
ways will justify, the several improvements in grading the 
streets which were recommended by the Committee on widen- 
ing the Streets in their Report adopted by the Town at the 
adjournment of their Annual Meeting in March, 1849. 

Voted, That the blank in the preceding vote be filled by 
choosing three Surveyors of Highways by hand vote after 
nomination by the Moderator. 

Voted, That Charles Stearns, Jr., William Dearborn and 
Abijah W. Goddard be Surveyors of Highways for the year 
ensuing. 

Voted, That all other Town officers be chosen by nomina- 
tion and hand vote. 

Voted, That there be three firewards chosen. 

Seth T. Thayer, Oliver Whyte, Augustus Allen, were 
chosen firewards. 

Voted, That there be two fence viewers chosen. 

Messrs. Clark L. Haynes & Samuel Clark were chosen 
Fence Viewers. 

Voted, That there be three Constables chosen. 

Messrs. Elisha Stone, Franklin Tukey & H. M. Sanborn 
were chosen Constables. 

Voted, That there be ten Field Drivers chosen. 

Jerathmael Davenport, Samuel A. Robinson, Marshall 
Stearns, Samuel Clark, William Griggs, James M. Seamans, 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 317 

John W. Warren, Ansel Waterman, Thomas Pettingill, 
Charles W. Scudder, were chosen Field Drivers. 

Voted, That there be two Surveyors of Wood & Lumber 
chosen. 

Messrs. Elisha Stone & James M. Seamans were chosen 
Surveyors of Wood & lumber. 

Voted, To choose an Auditing Committee of three. 

Messrs. Charles D. Head, Abijah W. Goddard, William 
I. Bowditch, were chosen Auditing Committee. 

Voted, To choose one Pound Keeper. 

Mr. Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

Voted, To choose a Prudential School Committee of three. 

Mr. Charles Stearns, Jr., for the North District, 
" Willard A. Humphrey, " " Middle " 
" Samuel Hill, " " South " 

were chosen Prudential School Committee. 

Voted, That it is not expedient to choose Tythingmen. 

Augustus Aspinwall, Marshall Stearns & Lemuel Foster 
were chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Voted, To pass to the consideration of the ninth article. 

After some debate — 

Voted, To pass to the tenth and eleventh articles in the 
Warrant. 

After much debate upon a motion of George Griggs, Esq., 
that the Town approve the contemplated Road from the end 
of the Mill Dam to Brighton Street or the line of the Town 
of Brighton near the house of the late Joseph White, and 
appropriate Ten Thousand Dollars towards building said 
Road, which was decided in the negative, on a division of 
the meeting, by a vote of Fifty in the negative to Forty- 
Two in the affirmative — 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the consideration of the 
tenth and eleventh articles. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it adjourn to meet 
a fortnight from this day, on Monday, the eighteenth day of 
March present, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in this 
place. 

Voted, To take up the fourth article of the Warrant, and 
bring in votes for County Treasurer. 



318 Brookline Town Records. 

After the ballotting was over, and the polls were closed, 
the votes were counted, in open meeting, by the Moderator 
and Town Clerk, and it appeared that the whole number of 
ballots was Thirty-seven, all of which were for John Bullard. 

John Bullard, Thirty-Seven. 

Voted, That the twelfth article in the Warrant be con- 
sidered. 

Voted, That the Town declare that they have received the 
order of notice mentioned in the twelfth article of the War- 
rant, and take no further action thereon. 

Voted, That the meeting do now adjourn. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



In conformity with the Law of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant with a list of the 
officers chosen who are required to take an oath of office and 
who had not been sworn by the Moderator, and delivered the 
same to Constable Elisha Stone, who was previously sworn 
by him, requiring him to summon each of the officers chosen 
to appear and take the oath of office before the Town Clerk 
within seven days after such notice. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Then personally appeared the persons hereafter named, 
and took the oath of office required of them, or signified 
their acceptance of the office to which they had been chosen, 
or declined serving in such office. Before me, 

Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

March 5, 1850. Elisha Stone sworn as Constable and as Surveyor of 
Wood & Lumber. 

" " " Moses Withington sworn as Treasurer and Collector. 

" " " Franklin Tukey sworn as Constable. 

6 " Wm. I. Bowditch accepted as one of Auditing Committee. 

" " " Charles D. Head accepted as one of Auditing Committee. 

" " " Oliver Whyte " " Fire Ward. 

" " " Augustus Aspinwall declined " " Cemetery Committee. 

" " " Rev. William Horton accepted " " School Committee. 

" " " Rev. Frederick N. Knapp " " " School Committee. 

" " " Mr. James Bartlett " " " Overseer of the Poor. 

" " " Mr. Jerathmael Davenport " " " " " " 

" " " Mr. William Dearborn <««««< " " << 



Annual Meeting, March 4, 1850. 319 

Norfolk, ss. 

Then personally appeared the persons hereafter named and 
took the oath of office required of them, or signified their 
acceptance of the office to which they had been chosen, or 
declined serving in such office. Before me, 

Will. Asplnwall, Town Clerk. 

March C>, 1850. Mr. Seth T. Thayer accepted as Kinward. 

8 " • Marshal Stearns declined '• Cemetery Committee. 
" " •■ II. M. Sanborn sworn " Constable. 

Ansel Waterman sworn " Field Driver. 
" " ;I Thomas Pettingill sworn " Field Driver. 

9 " •' James M. Seamans sworn Field Driver & Surveyor 
of Lumber. 

" " •' Clark L. Haynes sworn Fence Viewer. 

11 •• •■ Charles W. Scudder sworn Field Driver. 
" Jerathmael Davenport sworn as Field Driver. 
" Samuel A. Robinson sworn •• Field Driver. 

12 " ; - John N. Turner sworn " Assessor. 

13 •■ " John W. Warren sworn " Field Driver. 
Rev. Joseph Haven, Jr., accepted " School Committee. 

" " Mr. Willard A. Humphrey " Prudential School Com- 
mittee. 

16 ■• Rev. Wm. II. Shailer accepted as School Committee. 

18 " Mr. AV r m. Dearborn sworn as Surveyor of Highways. 

" " " AbijahW. Goddard sworn as Surveyor of Highways. 

" " " " • " accepted" Auditing Committee. 

" " " Samuel Philbrick " " School Committee. 



Report of Selectmen, of places where guide posts and boards ark 
maintained by the town of brookline. 

According to the Laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen submit 
the following report of the places where Guide Posts and Boards are 
erected and maintained by the Town, to wit : 

There is a Guide post, with a board thereon, standing at the junction 
of Boylston Street with Washington Street, directing to Newton Upper 
Falls and Brighton ; one at corner Boylston and Heath Streets, directing 
to Newton, Worcester and Dedham; one at corner of Brighton Street, 
directing to Brighton ; one at Boylston and Cross Street, to Newton 
Upper Falls, Newton and Brighton ; one at Heath and Warren Streets, to 
Newton, Dedham and Brighton; one at Clyde and Warren Streets, to 
Dedham and Brighton; one at Clyde and Newton Streets, to Brighton, 
Newton and Dedham ; one at Grove and Newton Streets, to West Rox- 
bury and Dedham ; one at Grove and South Streets, to Brighton ; one at 
South and Newton Streets, to Dedham, Brighton and Newton ; one at 



320 Brookline Town Records. 

Warren and Cottage Streets, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain; one at 
Warren and Walnut Streets, to Jamaica Plain ; one at Washington and 
Harvard Streets, to Brighton and Cambridge ; one at Sewall's Avenue 
and Harvard Street, to Cambridge and Cambriclgeport. 

There being fourteen in all, which are all that are required at present, 
in the opinion of the Selectmen. 

All which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen. 
Brooklink, March 4, 1850. James Bartlett, Chairman. 

A true copy. Attest : " Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 18, 1850. 

Pursuant to the adjournment, the Inhabitants of the Town 
met at the Town Hall on Monday, the eighteenth day of 
March, A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty, at three o'clock 
in the afternoon. 

The Moderator, Mr. Wm. I. Bowditch, called the meeting 
to order, and read the list of the officers chosen at the last 
meeting; who bad not been sworn or who had not signified 
their acceptance or refusal of office. 

Voted, To proceed to fill all vacancies in the offices of the 
Town. 

Mr. Samuel Clark was chosen Fire ward, and was excused, 
and Mr. John Trowbridge was chosen in his place. 

Messrs. William Griggs and Samuel Clark were sworn as 
Field Drivers by the Town Clerk. 

Messrs. Thomas Griggs and Charles Stearns, Jr., were 
sworn by the Town Clerk as Assessors. 

Mr. Charles Stearns, Jr., was sworn as Surveyor of High- 
ways. 

Mr. John Gibbs was chosen Fence Viewer. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick was chosen one of the Cemetery 
Committee. 

Voted, That Mr. Marshall Stearns be not excused from 
serving on the Cemetery Committee. 

Mr. Jesse Bird was again chosen one of the Cemetery 
Committee, in place of Lemuel Foster, excused. 



Ail jour nid Annual Meeting, March 18, 1850. 321 

Voted, To proceed to consider the Fifth Article in the 
Warrant. 

Voted, That a Committee of three persons be appointed by 
the Moderator, to examine the Hill in South Street, near Rox- 
bury line, see how much it needs to be cut down, how great 
an expenditure it requires, and report at a future meeting. 

The Moderator appointed Messrs. Daniel Sanderson, 
Thomas Griggs and Abijah W. Goddard this Committee. 

Voted, To consider the Sixth Article in the Warrant. 

Voted, That the subject of the Sixth Article be refered 
to the Selectmen, with power to lav out a portion of God- 
dard Avenue, and that part of Avon Street which lies in 
Brookline, as a town way, if they deem it expedient. 

Voted, To consider the Seventh Article in the Warrant. 

Mr. James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, read the 
following Report, which is also on File F, No. 10 : 

According to the instructions of the Town at the last Annual Meeting, 
the Selectmen on the 11th day of April last, laid out as a public street 
the passage way called Mechanic Place, from Harvard Street, commenc- 
ing near the Estate of Thomas Seaverns, and running westerly Thirty 
feet in width to the proposed new street which is to be laid out West of 
the Town House. Also, on the same day. laid out a street leading from 
Washington Street, on the Westerly side of the Town House, until it 
intersects Mechanic Place. They also laid out a continuation of the same 
street across Mechanic Place to School Street. This last (not being 
included in the instructions of the Town.) was done at the suggestion 
of several of the owners of land over which it is laid out. who, in con- 
sideration of the benefit to be derived from such road, agree, in writing, 
to claim no other compensation for their land so taken. And it is also 
deemed by the Selectmen that it would be a public benefit to have a street 
continued from Washington to School Street, and that the expense of 
constructing it would be very small. Said Street is laid out as follows, 
to wit : Commencing on Washington Street on the westerly side of an 
Avenue twelve feet wide, lying between the Estate of T. C. Leeds and 
laud of the Town, and running on the westerly side of said Avenue eighty- 
four feet nine inches; thence turning Westerly from said Avenue and 
running Tavo Hundred and Thirty-uine feet six inches to the line of land 
of the Town and parallel with the centre of Mechanic Place, striking the 
Town's land nineteen feet west of said twelve-foot avenue ; thence con- 
tinuing through land of the Town in a line curving to the Eastward Four 
Hundred and fifteen feet to School Street, Avhich line being Seven Huu- 
dred and Thirty-nine feet three inches from Washington to School Street, 
makes the westerly boundary of the new street, taking a triangular strip 
of land belonging to Samuel Leeds, lying west of said twelve-foot 
21 



322 Brookline Town Records. 

avenue, containing twenty-two hundred and seventy square feet; the 
easterly side of said new street commences on Washington Street thirty 
feet east of the west side of said twelve-foot avenue, and running over 
land of the Town, parallel with the above described line, and Thirty feet 
therefrom, one hundred and sixty-five feet; thence over land of Dr. 
Charles Wild and John Gibbs one hundred and sixty feet to Mechanic 
Place ; thence across said Mechanic Place thirty feet ; thence over land 
of the Town Two Hundred and Sixteen feet; thence across a point of 
land of A. L. Dennison Fifteen feet; thence over land of William Dear- 
born Seventy feet; thence over land of Oliver Cousens Ninety-four feet, 
to the School House, making the whole easterly boundary of the Street 
Seven Hundred and Fifty feet in length. The quantity of land necessary 
to be taken for the said street, besides the land of the Town, the twelve- 
foot avenue, and that part of it which crosses Mechanic Place, is Five 
Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-eight Square Feet, belonging to the 
following persons, to wit : To Timothy C. Leeds, 2270 feet; Dr. Wild 
and John Gibbs, 1040 feet; A. L. Dennison, 112 feet; Wm. Dearborn, 
1050 feet; Oliver Cousens, 1410 feet. The four last named owners of 
land amounting to 3618 feet, agree to give their land Avithout any com- 
pensation. The Selectmen have also staked out, with a view to widening 
the ToAvn road called School Street, where necessary, to make it not less 
than thirty feet in width, according to the vote of the Town, as follows : 
Commencing at Harvard Street and taking a strip four feet in width on 
the south side, from land of Oliver Cousens, one hundred and eighty-five 
feet in length, to land of the Town; thence across land of the Town to 
land of Timothy C. Leeds to a stake five feet south of the Road, making 
the Street from Harvard Street to land of said Leeds Thirty-three feet 
wide the whole distance ; thence running Westerly from said stake one 
hundred and twenty-two feet to a stake at a point Avhere it again inter- 
sects Avith the road. The quantity of land necessary to widen this street 
according to the above described limits, is Ten Hundred and Forty-one 
square feet, to wit : Of Oliver Cousens, Seven hundred and forty; T. C. 
Leeds, Three hundred and one feet. The several boundaries and admeas- 
urements of the laying out and Avideuing said Streets are more fully 
delineated by Surveys and draAvings of the same made by J. D. Williams, 
Surveyor, Avhich are herewith submitted. 

Previous to laying out said neAv Street and Avideuing said School Street, 
the Selectmen caused written notice of their intentions so to do to be left 
Avith each owner of land over Avhich said streets are to be laid out and 
widened, seven days at least previously thereto, and filed in the office of 
the Toavu Clerk the boundaries and admeasurements of said laying out 
and widening, at least seven days before this meeting, according to law. 
All of which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen, 
Brookline, March 4, 1850. James Baktlett, Chairman. 

Voted, That the Report of the Selectmen be accepted, and 
that the ways therein mentioned as laid out and widened be 
accepted and allowed by the Town, and that the Selectmen 



Adjourned Annual Meet i ix i, March 18, 1850. 323 

be instructed to carry the recommendations of the Report 
into effect. 

Voted, To take up the Eighth Article of the warrant, con- 
cerning appropriations for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That one Hundred dollars be added to the estimate 
for the support of schools. 

Voted, That Fifty dollars be appropriated for keeping in 
order the Cemetery. 

Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the 
ensuing year, to wit : 

For support of Poor, Eight hundred dollars .... $800 00 
For support of Schools, exclusive of school for adults, 1 

Thirty-Eight Hundred Dollars . . . . / 3800 00 

For support of Highways 1200 00 

" County Tax 1000 00 

" Fire Department, including hydrant. ,<j-. . . . 500 00 

" Collecting taxes 150 00 

" Abatement of taxes 250 00 

" Town Officers 670 00 

" Repairs of public buildings 275 00 

" Extinction of Town debt 2000 00 

" payment of interest on same 350 00 

" contingencies • 600 00 

$11595 00 

Some inquiry being made as to the amount necessary to 
pay the land damages for laying out the new street west of 
the Town Hall, and for widening School Street and laying 
out Mechanic Place as a public street, Mr. James Bartlett 
submitted and read the following addition to the Report of 
the Selectmen on the subject : 

The Selectmen have also carefully considered the subject of damages 
as far as any has been sustained by any person by the laying out and 
widening of said streets, and have awarded the following sums, which 
are to be in full for damages for land taken and for the expense of 
removing and setting fences, to wit : To Timothy C. Leeds, for widen- 
ing School Street, thirty-nine dollars and nine cents. Timothy C. 
Leeds, for new street, Two hundred and four dollars and thirty cents. 
To Timothy C. Leeds, damage in reducing the level of the twelve-foot 
avenue and Mechanic Place, over both of which he has right of passage, 
one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To Oliver Cousens, for School 
Street, Seventy-one Dollars and Sixty-nine cents. Thomas Seaverns is 
considered to be injured in his property by reducing the level of Mechanic 



324 BrooMine Town Records. 

Place and the Street East of the Town House, consequence of leaving the 
said streets so much below his land that his right to enter on to either of 
them will be of little or no service to him ; in consequence thereof, the 
Selectmen award to him the sum of Sixty dollars, making the whole 
amount awarded for damages. Five Hundred Dollars and Eight cents. 

Voted, That Six Hundred Dollars he appropriated to pay- 
ins: the land damages on said new streets and alteration of 
School Street, and if any surplus remain it be devoted to 
making the roads and alterations. 

Mr. Daniel Sanderson moved to reconsider the vote passed 
at the last meeting, by which the consideration of the tenth 
and eleventh articles in the warrant was indefinitely post- 
poned. 

Upon this motion the meeting was polled, the voting list 
being called over, and each voter present answering yes or 
no when his name was called. By a vote of Seventy-two 
Yeas to Sixty-three Nays, it was — 

Voted, To reconsider the vote passed at the meeting- 
March 4, 1850, by which the consideration of the tenth and 
eleventh articles in the Warrant was indefinitely postponed. 

Mr. George Griggs moved, That the Town of Brookline 
withdraw its opposition to laying out a new road from the 
end of the Mill-dam, according to the petition now T pending 
before the County Commissioners, and that the Committee 
appointed to oppose said road be discharged. 

This motion failed upon a ballot, by Seventy-three Yeas 
to Eighty-one Nays. 

Mr. John Trowbridge was excused as Fire ward. 

Mr. Charles Warren was chosen Fire ward. 

Mr. Samuel Hills accepted as Prudential School Commit- 
tee for the South District, and Mr. Charles Stearns, Jr., 
accepted as Prudential School Committee for the North 
District. 

Voted, That the sum of money appropriated to repairing 
the public highways the ensuing year be assessed upon the 
polls and estates of resident and non-resident inhabitants, 
and collected in the same manner that all other Town 
expenses are assessed and collected, and that said sum be 
drawn from the Treasury by orders from the Selectmen for 



Special Meeting, April 1, 1850. 325 

the purposes above named in payment of the Surveyors' 

accounts, when presented and approved. 

Voted, To adjourn without day. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



MEETING, APRIL 1st, 1850, 

For the choice of County Commissioners, Special Com- 
missioners, AND OTHER BUSINESS. 

seIl.i Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

'seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookline. To the Constable* of 
the Town of Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their 
votes to the Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said Town, for 
three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners 
for the County of Norfolk, being all inhabitants of different 
towns within said County, to serve for the term of three 
years and until others are chosen in their stead, on the first 
day of April next, it being the first Monday of said month, 
in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Fifty, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls will be opened. 

You are also required to notify and warn the inhabitants 
of said Town to meet at the Town Hall, in said Town, on 
the said first day of April, at half-past four in the afternoon, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To see if the Town will anthorize the Town Treasurer to borrow 
Twenty-five Hundred Dollars, in anticipation of the Taxes to be received. 

3rd. To hear and act upon a report of the Selectmen setting forth 
the boundaries and admeasurements of the widening of School Street 
and the laying out as public highways the Avenue called Mechanic Place 
and a new street leading from Washington Street west of the Town 
House. 



326 BrooMine Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this twenty- 
second day of March, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hun- 
dred and Fifty. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 
Wm. Dearborn, } Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe, March 29th, 1850. 

Pursuant to the within Avar rant. I have notified the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the 
dwellings of the same. 

Elisha Stoxe, Constable of Brookline. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the meeting was 
called to order by the Selectmen at five minutes past two 
o'clock in the afternoon, on the said first day of April, A. D. 
1850 ; the Warrant was read by the Town Clerk, and the 
polls were opened for the choice of the officers above men- 
tioned, and were kept open more than two hours, being 
closed, by a vote of the Voters present, at twenty-five min- 
utes after four in the afternoon. After closing the polls the 
Selectmen, with the Town Clerk, sorted and counted the 
ballots, and the following was the result : 

For County Commissioners, the whole number of ballots was Fifty-three. 
James C. Doane of Cohasset had Forty-four. 

Nathan Jones of Medway " Fifty-three. 

Samuel P. Loud of Dorchester " Forty-four. 

Fisher A. Kingsbury of Weymouth " Nine. 
Henry Hobart of Foxboro' " Nine. 

For Special Commissioners the whole number of ballots was Fifty-three. 
Abraham F. Howe of Roxbury had Forty-one. 
Timothy P. Whitney " Wrentham " Forty-four. 
William S. Morton " Quincy " Twelve. 

Edward L. Keyes " Dedham " Nine. 

This result was declared to the meeting ; The return was 
then made up, signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and 
sealed up with the Town Seal in open Town meeting. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, April 1, 1850. 327 

At forty-live minutes after four o'clock on this same day, 
the Town Clerk called the Inhabitants to order, and read the 
second part of the Warrant, and presided during the choice 
of a Moderator. 

Mr. Thomas Griggs was chosen Moderator, but declined 
serving, on account of a cold, and was excused. 

Mr. Marshal Stearns was chosen Moderator, and presided. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- 
ized to borrow Twenty-five Hundred Dollars in anticipation 
of the taxes to be received. 

Mr. James Bartlett, in behalf the Selectmen, presented 
their report, setting forth the boundaries and admeasurements 
of the widening of School Street, and the laying out as 
Highways the Avenue called Mechanic Place and a new 
street leading from Washington Street west to the Town 
House. Said Report is the same which was made at the 
adjourned meeting, March 18, 1850, with the addition and 
amendment following : 

Thirty days are given to the owners of land through which said ways 
are laid out, or are altered or widened, for the purpose of removing 
their trees, fences, and other property, which may obstruct said ways. 

James Bartlett. 
J. Davenport, 
William Sanboux. 

Upon which report so amended having been read by the 
Town Clerk, it having been tiled in his office on the 22nd 
day of March, A. D. 1850, and more than seven days before 
this meeting, it was — 

Voted, That the Report of the Selectmen be accepted, and 
that the ways therein mentioned as laid out and widened, be 
accepted and allowed by the Town, and that the Selectmen 
be instructed to carry the recommendations of the Report 
into effect. 

Mr. Thomas Griggs offered a report from the Committee 
appointed at the adjourned meeting, March 18, to examine 
the Hill in South Street, but the Moderator considered it out 
of order, there being no article in the warrant on the subject. 

Voted (unanimously), To dissolve the meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : William Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



328 Brookline Town Records. 



MEETING, APRIL 29th, 1850. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town 
qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their votes to the 
Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said Town, for one County 
Commissioner for the County of Norfolk, to complete the 
number required for the County aforesaid, to serve for the 
term of three years, and until others are chosen in their 
stead, on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of April current, at 
three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
polls will be opened. 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your 
doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, this 

nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One 

Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty. 

James Bartlett, > Selectmen of 
J. Davenport, $ Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, April 27th, 1850. 

Pursuant to the within warrant. I have notified the inhabitants of the 

Town of Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and 

for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice Avith the 

same. 

Elisha Stoxe, Const a !>1i' of Brookline. 

Mr. James Bartlett, chairman of the Selectmen, called the 
meeting to order at three o'clock and fifteen minutes in the 
afternoon of said day, and directed the Town Clerk to read 
the Warrant and return, and the list of names of persons 
voted for at the former election furnished to the Selectmen 
by the board of examiners. 

The Polls were then opened, and w T ere kept open until a 
quarter of six o'clock, when they were closed by a vote of 



Militia List, 1850. 



329 



the voters present. The Selectmen then sorted and counted 
the votes and ballots in presence of the Town Clerk and in 
open town meeting, and made public declaration thereof as 
follows, to Avit : 

The whole number of ballots was Twenty-three, and Sam- 
uel P. Loud of Dorchester had Twenty-three, and none were 
cast for any other person ; the return was then made up, 
signed by the Selectmen, attested by the Town Clerk, and 
sealed up in open town meeting. 

The meeting was then dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



List of Soldiers enrolled by the Assessors of the Town of 
Brooldine for the Year 1850. 

See File K. No. 14. 



[saac 1 >earborn 
David S. Coolidge 

Francis Coolidire 
Westly Powell 
Charles Whittemore 
James Hinkley 
Jaincs Coolidge 
Andrew J. Harrington 
William J. Griggs 
Willard Jackson 
Ozias Locke 
William Stearns 
Nath'l G. Chapin 
Chandler Berry 
Francis Allen 
Wm. Aspinwall 
Oliver Consens 
B. F. Baker 
George Tyler 
Jona. D. Long 
Ivory Ross 
Geo. F. Homer 
D. H. Rogers 
Freeman Plummer 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 



James Ilaynes 
Edward Butler 
Sylvester Kimball 
Geo. W. Butters 
Joseph (.ra\ es 
Moses Judkins 
Thomas Dillon 
Royal Woodward, 
John Park 
.lames Driscoll 
Moses Stone 
Nathaniel Sawyer 
Joseph Ferguson 
Samuel Damon 
William K. Melcher 
Ha/en Bradbury 
Warren Hyde 
.la-. M. [ngalls 
John Mnssy 
John D. Kelley 
Harvey James 
Calvin Piper 
Loring Ranger 
Mr. Carr 
A. H. Lambert 



Isaac Farrington 
Wm. II. Gooch 
Winslow < 'hapin 
James Morse 
S. B. Little 
Samuel Hobart 
Amos Snow, Jr. 
Jr. James Dyer 
John O. Libby 
Tlio. Lee 
Ransom N. Well- 
Edward Hall 
( 'harles W. Tolman 
Israel G. Cox 
John W. Candler 
Charles w. Wheelwright 
Ashbel D. Earle 
Geo. W. Atkinson 
Chas. Allen 
Stephen Allen 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Oliver G. Pray 
John B. Libby 
Daniel Jennings 
Albert Jenninsrs 



330 



Brookline Town Records. 



Geo. Stoddard 
Oliver Whyte 
Levi Barnard 
Charles Winn 
Calvin Smith 
Omar Binney 
Charles Coolidge 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin D. Crawford 
M. C. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Geo. W. Patten 
Stephen R. Griggs 
E. R. Seccomb 
Augustus Griggs 
Henry A. Mellen 
David H. Daniels 
James Thompson • 
Thos. A. Rich 
Chas. W. Scudder 
John N. Turner 
Chas. A. Howe 
Win. I. Bowditch 
Wm. A. Ladd 
Wm. 0. Churchill 
T. Henry Perkins 
H. W. Jameson 
Thos. H. Bacon 
Josiah Bacon 
William Cooper 
C. B. Dana 
E. A. Dana 
Geo. N. Dana 
P. E. Kingman 
Chas. Pope 
Wm. Pope 
Henry W. Stone 
Samuel K. Avery 
Alfred Cobb 
Alfred Thayer 
Geo. E. Hersey 
John H. Dane 
Edward Dane 
Chas. F. Huntington 
Nath'l Lyford 
Robert S. Lit tell 
O. B. Delano 
H. J. Williams 
Wm. W. Clement 
Samuel G. Snelling 



Nath'l W. Brackett 
J. A. Guild 
Abijah C. Stone 
Ansel Waterman 
Henry Upham 
Jas. M. Seamans 
Jeremiah Sheffield 
Geo. S. Cushing 
Chas. L. Palmer 
Jas. Powers 
Joshua A. Little 
Peter W. Pierce 
James Bradford 
James M. Edwards 
Woodbury Mosher 

Jacob A. 

Samuel Ellis 
John R. Brown 
Cephas Foreman 
Granville Downs 
Geo. Moulton 
George Hill 
Benj. W. Clark 
Samuel Clark 
John A. Bird 
William 1'rescott 
Lafayette Thayer 
Benj. F. Kendall 
Henry W. Carr 
Emerson Leland 
James M. Richardson 
Geo. E. Richardson 
Geo. Atkinson 
Edward Atkinson 
Eben'r R. Frost 
Wm. E. Cunningham 
Geo. Griggs 
Andrew H. Newell 
Eben Wright 
Geo. H. Stone 
Charles Warren 
Daniel S. Kendall 
Augustine Shurtleft* 
Clark L. Haynes 
A. H. Knight 
Aaron Whitney 
Dennis Mahoney 
Geo. R. Phelps 
Wm. H. Leonard 
William G. Weld 



Charles Howe 
Isaac Adams 
Francis H. Corey 
Chas. D. Bartlett 
Geo. T. Bartlett 
Chas. W. Porter 
Leonard Bowles 
Geo. Hancock 
Thomas Pettingill 
Geo. W. Stearns 
Charles Bean 
Thad's J. Townsend 
Abel Milliken 
Joel Humphrey 
Horace G. Brown 
Charles Smith 
Geo. Penniman 
Wm. P. Sanderson 
Eben'r Reed 
Nath'l Wentworth 
Russel T. Bean 
Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
Wm. Hutchins 
J. S. Warren 
Leander Ryder 
Samuel Townsend, Jr. 
Thomas Townsend 
Charles Townsend 
Thos. C. Quimby 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
John H. Henshaw 
Jas. L. White 
Wm. White 
Jonathan Harding 
Stafford Williams 
Walter Cabot 
Frank E. Howe 
John Howe, Jr. 
J. D. Whitney 
Jona. D. Sias 
Thomas B. Cowan 
William Cowan, Jr. 
John Blanchard 
Geo. J. Perry 
Chas. 1). Head 
Henry Whitney 
Patrick McDermott 
Thos. Parsons 
Charles Craft 



Special Meeting, July 25, 1850. 331 

Henry Weeks John Codrnan Xanthus Gooclnough 

Samuel Eliot William J. Hyde Geo. W. Goodnough 

James Chesbrough Samuel D. Hills Isaiah Caver ly 

Everett Colburne Chas. G. Colbath Robert Miles, Jr. 

William Wharton . Simon W. Clifford Geo. H. Prouty 

Ivory Wales George White Moses Corson 

Josiah H. Barret George Craft George Harlow 
James Wiley Total, 241. 

Brooklixe. May 20, 1850 Charles S tearxs, Jr., \ Assessors 

Thomas Griggs, >■ of 

Johx X. Turner, J Brookline. 

Recorded. Attest: Will. Aspixwall. Town Clerk. 

Return made out and sent to Adjutant-General June 22. 1850. 

Attest: Will. Aspixwall. Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, JULY 25th, 1850. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town 
to meet at the Town Hall, in said Town, on Thursday, the 
twenty-fifth day of July present, at four of the clock in the 
afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To act upon the order of notice received from the County Com- 
missioners upon the application of the Charles River Branch Railroad 
Company to be allowed to construct their railroad, at its crossing of 
Washington Street, upon a level with said Street. 

3. To hear and act upon the Report of the Committee appointed to 
consider the propriety of reducing the Hill in South Street, near Roxbury 
line. 

4. To hear and act upon the order of the County Commissioners 
requiring the Town of Brookline to construct a public highway from the 
line of the Town of Brighton to Washington Street, as laid out by said 
County Commissioners. 

5. To see if the Town will raise the money by loan necessary to carry 
said order into effect. 



332 Brookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this Warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this fifteenth 

day of July, in the Year of our. Lord One Thousand Eight 

Hundred and Fifty. 

James BartleTt, 1 Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

A true copy of the Warrant. 

Attest : Will. Asiunwall, Town Clerk. 

Noiii'OLK, ss. Town of Brookline, July 22nd, 1850. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
Brookline herein described, to meet at the time and place & for the pur- 
poses 'within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the dwelling 
places of the same. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy of the Return. Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant, the said inhabit- 
ants met at the Town Hall in Brookline, on Thursday, the 
twenty-fifth day of July, A. D. 1850, at four o'clock in the 
afternoon. The Town Clerk called the meeting to order at 
five minutes after four. 

Thomas Griggs, Esquire, was chosen Moderator by written 
ballots, but he declined serving, and was excused. 

Voted, To choose the Moderator by nomination. 

George F. Homer, Esquire, was then nominated & chosen 
Moderator and he presided over the meeting. 

The second article in the Warrant was taken up, and after 
some debate the following votes were passed by a very large 
majority. 

Voted, That George B. Blake, William I. Bowditch, and 
John Dane, Esq., be a committee to appear before the 
Count} 7 Commissioners and remonstrate, on behalf of the 
Town, against the petition of the Charles River Railroad 
Corporation to be allowed to cross Washington Street on the 
same level with the street, and to ask that said Corporation 
may be compelled to build a bridge over their road. 



Special Meeting, Jul/ 25, 1850. 333 

Voted, That the Committee appointed to remonstrate 
against the passing of the railroad across Washington Street 
at grade, be requested also to oppose its crossing Cypress 
Street or any other public highway within the limits of this 
Town at grade. 

Mr. Thomas Griggs presented the Report of the Commit- 
tee on the lowering of the Hill on South Street : 

REPORT. 
The Committee t<> whom av;i- referred the petition of Mr. Billings and 
others of Roxbury to have South Street graded, having examined the 
same, would recommend that the Town appropriate Seventy-five dollars 
for that purpose, on condition the said petitioners add t wenty-five dollars 
to the above sum. all of which to be expended under the direction of our 
present board of Surveyors. 

In behalf of the Committee, 
Brookline, July 25th, 1850. Thomas Griggs. 

Voted, To accept said Report. 

Voted, To appropriate Seventy-live Dollars to grade the 
hill in South Street, provided the petitioners for such grad- 
ing add twenty-five dollars thereto, all to be expended under 
the direction of our present board of Surve3 r ors. (See 
subsequent votes.) 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick presented the Report of the Com- 
mittee appointed to remonstrate against the Petition of 
George Griggs and others to have a public highway laid out 
from the western end of the Mill Dam to the line of the 
Town of Brighton. Said Report was accepted, and is on 
File F, No. 17. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to carry into 
effect the order of the County Commissioners requiring the 
Town to build a highway from Brighton line to Washington 
Street, and that said Committee be authorized to cause the 
same to be built by letting out the work or in such other 
manner as they shall deem most for the interest of the Town, 
if, and as soon as the land owners consent to their going 
upon said land to build said highway. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be authorized to sign 
a note or notes, in behalf of the Town, for such sum or sums 



334 Brook! ine Town Records. 

not exceeding Twenty -five Hundred Dollars in all, as may 
be necessary to pay the expense of making said road. 

Voted, To reconsider the vote appropriating Seventy-five 
Dollars to grade South Street. 

Voted, To appropriate one hundred Dollars from such 
monies in Treasury as are not otherwise appropriated, to 
grade the hill in South Street, near Roxbury line, to be 
expended under the direction of the present board of Sur- 
veyors. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Cierk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, OCTOBER 7th, 1850. 

I SEAL. J 

[sEAL.1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constabtes of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said Town, on 
Monday, the seventh day of October next, at two o'clock in 
the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To act upon an order of notice from the County Commissioners 
upon the petition of Daniel Sanderson and others, praying that a new 
public highway be laid out in a westerly direction from the end of the 
Mill Dam to Washington Street in Brookline. 

3rd. To hear and act upon a Report from the Committee chosen to 
procure the offer of laud for cemetery purposes. 

4th. To determine whether the Town will authorize the purchase of 
land and buildings in the western part of the town for the purposes of 
a Cemetery and a residence for paupers. 

5th. To see whether the Town will authorize the purchase of land to 
enlarge the present Cemetery, and for the purpose of a school-house 
lot. 



Special Meeting, October 7, 1850. 335 

6th. To see if the Town will authorize and instruct the Town Treas- 
urer to give his promissory notes, on behalf of the Town, for such 
amount as may be required to purchase such lands and buildings as the 
Town shall by vote authorize to be purchased for Cemetery, Poor house, 
and School house purposes. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said 
meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this thirtieth 

day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand 

Eight Hundred and Fifty. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Town of Brookline, Oct. 5th, 1850. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 
Town of Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the 
dwelling places of the same four days before the meeting. 

Elisha Stone, Constable of Brookline. 
A true copy of Warrant and return. 

Attest: Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

The Town Clerk called the meeting to order at five min- 
utes after two p. m., October 7th, 1850, and read the War- 
rant and return. 

Voted, To choose a Moderator by ballot. 

Deacon Thomas Grio-o-s received ten ballots out of eleven, 
and was chosen Moderator, but requested to be excused on 
account of ill health. He was accordingly excused. 

A new ballot was held ; ten ballots were thrown, all of 
which were for George F. Homer, Esq. 

Mr. Homer stated the objects of the meeting. 
Voted, That a Committee of five be appointed to procure 
estimates of the expense of building the road from the Mill- 
dam westward, as petitioned for by Daniel Sanderson and 
others, and to confer with the proprietors of the lands on 
the route of the proposed road and the Directors and Stock- 
holders of the Mill-dam Company, to see what part of the 



336 Brookline Town Records. 

expense of the proposed road they were willing to defray ; 
this Committee to report the facts for the action of the Town 
before the final hearing before the Commissioners. 

Voted, That said Committee be instructed to appear 
before the County Commissioners, to inform them of the 
above vote, and to request them to adjourn the hearing of 
the petition till the foregoing vote can be acted upon. 

Voted, That the Committee be nominated by the Mod- 
erator. 

Messr. George Griggs, William I. Bowditch, Samuel 
Philbrick, Daniel Sanderson, Samuel Craft, were nominated 
accordingly, and they were chosen by the Town. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick read a Report from the Committee 
appointed to ascertain whether any land could be purchased 
to enlarge the public cemetery, or for another cemetery, 
which was accepted, and is on file F, No. 21. 

After much discussion, it was finally 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the consideration of the 
fourth, fifth and sixth Articles in the Warrant. 

Voted, To adjourn without day. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Toivn Clerk. 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 11, 1850. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss., Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to warn the inhabitants of the Town of 
Brookline qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said Town, on Monday, the eleventh day of Novem- 
ber next, it being the second Monday in said month, at half- 



General Election, November 11, 1850. 337 

past one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place 
the polls will be opened and kept open not less than two 
hours. 

1. To determine whether the Town will send a Representative to the 
next General Court. 

2. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following officers, 
to wit: For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Commonwealth; 
for three Senators fur this County; A Representative to the thirty- 
second Congress of the United States from the Eighth District, and a 
Representative to the aexl General Court, if the Town determine t<> send 
one; all to be voted for on one ballot. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting - . 
Given under our hands and seals, this thirty-first day of 
October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight 
Hundred and Fifty. 

James Bartlett, ~) Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, j Bvookline. 

Brookllne, No\ . 5th, L850. 
By virtue of this precept, I have notified each voter to meet at the 
[time and place within mentioned, and for the] within mentioned pur- 
poses, by leaving a printed copyof this warrant at his place of residence. 

I'kaxkux Tukey, Constable of Brooklira . 

Mr. Bartlett, chairman of the Selectmen, called the meet- 
ing to order at half-past one o'clock, & the Town Clerk read 
the warrant. It was — 

Voted, To send a Representative to the General Court. 

The polls were then opened, and were kept open until 
half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, when they were closed 
by a vote of those present ; the votes were then sorted and 
counted by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, declaration of 
the result made by the chairman, the same was recorded 
herein, in open town meeting. 

The whole number of ballots for Governor was Two Hundred and Ninety- 
one. 

For George N. Briggs of Pittsfleld, Two Hundred. 

Stephen C. Phillips of Salem, Thirty. 

George S. Boutwell of Groton, Sixty. 

Wendell Phillips of Boston, One. 
22 



338 Broohline Town Records. 

The whole number of ballots was Two Hundred and Ninety-one for 
Lieutenant-Governor . 

John Reed of Yarmouth. Two Hundred and one. 

Amasa Walker of North Brookfield. Thirty. 
Henry W. Cushman of Bernardstown, Fifty-nine. 
Francis Jackson of Boston. one. 

For Senators the whole number of ballots was Two Hundred and Eighty- 
Nine, 
for Marshal] P. Wilder of Dorchester, Two Hundred. 
Lysander Richards of Quincy, One Hundred and Ninety-nine. 

William H. Carey of Medway, One Hundred and Ninety-nine. 

Edward L. Keyes of Dedham. Eighty-Seven. 

Alva Morrison of Braintree, Eighty-Eight. 

Augustus Aspinwall of Brookline, one. 
W. I. Bowditch of " one. 

Samuel Warner, Jr.. of Wrentham, Eighty-six. 

For Representative to Congress the whole number of ballots was Three 
Hundred and Five. 

Samuel H. Walley of Roxbury had One Hundred and seventy-eight. 
Horace Mann of Newton had Seventy-one. 

Edgar K. Whitaker of Needhain had Fifty-six. 

The whole number of ballots for Representative to the General Court 
was Two Hundred and Eighty-eight. Necessary to a choice One Hun- 
dred and forty-five. 

William Aspinwall had One Hundred & forty-two. 

Marshall Stearns had Fifty-four. 

Samuel Craft had Thirty-three. 

James Bartlett had Fifty-seven. 

W. A. Aspinwall had one. 

William P. Atkinson had one — and there was no choice. 

It was — 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourns it adjourn to 
meet at this place tomorrow at three o'clock p. m., to choose 
a Representative to the General Court. 

The returns were then sealed up after having been signed 
by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and the fact was declared 
in open town meeting. 

A check-list of voters was used in voting, and no one was 
allowed to vote whose name was not on the list. 

Voted, To adjourn according to the previous vote. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



General Election. November 12, 1850. 339 

The adjourned meeting was held pursuant to the adjourn- 
ment at three o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday, the 
twelfth day of November, A. D. One Thousand Eight Hun- 
dred and Fifty, for the choice of a Representative. 

Mr. Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, called the meet- 
ing to order at five minutes after three o'clock, and the Polls 
were opened and kept open, by a vote of the voters present, 
until half-past live o'clock, when they were closed. The 
Selectmen and the Town Clerk proceeded to sort, count the 
ballots in open Town Meeting. The result was as fol- 
lows : 

The whole number of ballots was Two Hundred and Forty. Necessary 
for a choice one Hundred and Twenty-one. 

William P. Atkinson had One. (1) 
Samuel Cra ft had Fifteen, j L5 
James Bartlett had Forty-seven. (47) 
Marshall Stearns had Fifty-three. (53) 

William Aspinwall had One Hundred & Twenty-four, and was chosen 
Representative to the next General Court from this town. 

The result was recorded and declared in open town meeting 
by reading the number of votes & the names of the persons 
voted for. The certificate was then made out in duplicate 
and signed by the Selectmen, and served on William Aspin- 
wall by Franklin, Tukey, Constable of Brookline. 

There was a check-list of the voters' names used at this 
adjournment, and no voter was allowed to vote until his 
name had been found on the list and checked, and all the 
other requirements of the law were duly observed. 

The business of the meeting having now been accomplished, 
the Chairman of the Selectmen pronounced it Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



»EA1,. 

SEAL. 
SEAL. 



340 Brookline Town Record*. 



SPECIAL MEETING, DEC. 16th, 1850. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
me required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said Town, on 
Monday, the sixteenth day of December current, at two 
o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 



1st. To CtlOOSe a Moderator. 

2nd. To hear and act upon the Report of the Committee appointed 
October 7. L850, on the subject of a road from the Mill dam to Washing- 
ton Street, petitioned for DJ Daniel Sanderson and others. 

:'.rd. To see -what action, if any, the Town will take in relation to 
laying out said road, and raising money towards building the same. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with 
your doing thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this ninth 

day of December, in the year of our Lord One Thousand 

Eight Hundred and Fifty. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, } Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Dee. 12th, 1850. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified the "Within named inhabitants 
of Brookline, by leaving a printed notice at the residence of each voter, 
as within directed. 

lU cii M. Sanborn, Constable. 

A true copy of Warrant and Return. 

Wu.i.. Asriwx mi.. Town Clerk. 

Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of 
Brookline met at the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, 
the sixteenth da}' of December, A. D. 1850, at two o'clock 
in the afternoon. The Town Clerk called the meeting to 
order at ten minutes after two o'clock, and read the Warrant 
and Return. 



Special Meeting, December 16, 1850. 341 

It vv:is voted to choose the Moderator by written ballot. 

There were twelve ballots thereon. 

David Coolidge had nine and was chosen, but at his 
request was excused on account of ill health. 

Another ballot was held, at which the whole number of 
ballots was Eighteen. James Robinson had seventeen, and 
was chosen, and took the chair. 

Mr. George Griggs presented the Report of the Commit- 
tee appointed October 7, 1850, on the subject of a road 
from the Mill-dam to Washington Street, petitioned for by 
Daniel Sanderson and others. The Report was accepted. 
See file F, No. 24. 

Mr. George Griggs moved the following votes, which, on 
motion of Mr. W. I. Bowditch, were taken up separately, 
and passed by a large majority. 

Voted, That a Committee of five be appointed to appear 
before the County Commissioners and request them to lay 
out and locale, as soon as it can be legally done, the road 
from the Mill Dam to Washington Street, as petitioned for 
by Daniel Sanderson and others. 

Voted, That if the County Commissioners shall locate 
said road, said Committee be authorized to advertise, by 
posting up notices immediately thereafter, for proposals, or 
to contract in such other manner as they shall think best, to 
build said road, the time for building the road not to run 
beyond the first of October next. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the Town be authorized to 
borrow the Sum of Five Thousand Dollars in such sums and 
at such times as said Committee may require for building 
said road. 

Voted, That said Committee be authorized to receive the 
sum of Two Thousand Dollars subscribed by the Boston and 
Roxbury Mill Corporation, and any other money subscribed 
or to be subscribed towards defraying the cost of said road. 
Voted, That said Committee, on the completion of said 
road, report to the Town the amount of all monies which 
shall have come into their hands, whether from the Town or 
otherwise, and a true account of all expenditures by them 
made on account of said road. 



342 Brooklhie Town Records. 

It was then — 

Voted, That Messrs. George Griggs, W. I. Bowditch, 
Daniel Sanderson, James Bartlett and Thomas Griggs be 
said Committee. 

On motion of Dr. Charles Wild, a committee consisting 
of Dr. C. Wild, W. I. Bowditch, and W. Aspinwall, was 
appointed to consider the expediency of further widening 
School Street, and to report at a future meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1851. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, to wit : To the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
you are required to warn the inhabitants of said Town 
to meet at the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, 
the tenth day of March, in the year One Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, at one o'clock in the after- 
noon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

3rd. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers and Com- 
mittees. 

■ith. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

5th. To bring in their votes for Register of Deeds. 

6th. To hear and act upon the petition of Albert Clarke and others 
for a primary school in the North part of the Town. 

7th. To hear and act upon the request of Samuel A. Walker that the 
Town would till up Washington Street to the line of said Walker's land. 

iSth. To revise the Jury List prepared by the Selectmen. 

Oth. To see if the Town will build a new lock-up. 

10th. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- 
sary to meet the expenditures for the ensuing year. 



Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 343 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands this first day of March, in the year 

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 5th, 1851. 

By virtue of this precept. I have notified ami warned each voter to meet 
at the time and place within mentioned and for the within mentioned 
purposes, by leaving at his place of residence a printed copy of tins 
warrant. 

l'i: i.vhi.ix Tiki.y. Constable, of Brookline. 

A true copy of the Warrant and the return thereon. See file K. No. 25. 
Attest: Wii.i.. A.SPINWALL, Town Clerk. 

William Aspinwall, Town Clerk, called the meeting to 
order at ten minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon of 
Monday, the tenth day of March, in the year One Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and read aloud the foregoing- 
Warrant and Return, and presided during the choice of a 
Moderator by written ballots. 

The whole number of ballots for Moderator was Seventy- 
eight. 

George F. Homer had one. 

Marshall Stearns " Twenty-nine. 

William I. Bowditch had Forty-eight, and was chosen 
Moderator, and took the chair. 

At the request of the Moderator, the Reverend William 
H. Shailer offered prayers. 

A balloting for Town Clerk was held by written ballots. 
The whole number of ballots was Xinety-three. 

George Cushing had one. 

Artemas Newell " Fifteen. 

William Aspinwall had Seventy-seven, and was chosen 
Town Clerk for the year ensuing, and was sworn by the 
Moderator to the faithful performance of the duties of that 
office. 



:\\ I Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To lay the Second article of the Warrant on the 
table, and to take up the third artiole. 

Mr. James Bartletl presented the following Report of the 
Selectmen on the laying out of Goddard Avenue, &c. 

ItEPORT. 

\t the last Alumni meeting, the subject of laying out a portion of God- 
dard & venue and thai part of Avon Street which lies in Brookline as a 
public highway was submitted to the Selectmen, with power to Layout 
the same, If they should deem ii expedient. The Selectmen have given 
the subject their attention, and are of opinion that if is no1 expedient to 
do so. for manj reasons. Thatil would be a very circuitous and crooked 
road, turning several acute angles , and under the most, favorable circum- 
stances some part of the way would be ;• dangerous and unsafe road to 
i>:iss over. The hill In Won Street Is so abrupl that it would require 
groat expense to render an ordinarllj safe highway, in the opinion of 
the Selectmen, there should be no town way Laid out at the present day 
Less than fortj feel In width. Some part of Goddard Avenue is not more 
than twelve or fifteen feel wide, mid it would be attended with great 
expense to make It a suitable road for a public town way, even should 
the Land be gratuitous!} given by the abutters. The Selectmen are of 
opinion that whenever :i town road shall be needed Leading from Cottage 

Street to Newton St reel lo :ieeoni modii I e I he |>ul>lie travel, :l much heller 

route can be selected than to follow through Avon Street. The wants of 
the public ^<> not appear to be at present sufficiently urgent to require a 
road to be laid out through that pari of the Town, which would subject 
the town to so ureal :m expense as would be required to construcl a road 
through the avenues referred to, In m proper manner to make it a safe 
road for travellers. 'The Selectmen do therefore believe thai 11 Is nol 
expedlenl to lay oul anj town road through thai pari of the Town until 

the vv:inl- of SUCl) ro:id for public eouvenienee :ire more niMuifest limn :l t 

present appea rs to be the case. 

.1 VMKS l> vii I ll I I, | 

.1 . 1> v\ IN POfl i s ' h CtMGH. 

William Drarrorn, J 
Brooklink, March 10, 1851. See file F, No. 26. 



Voted, To accept the Report of the Selectmen relating to 
Goddard A.venue & A.von Street. 

Mr. .lames Bartletl presented the Report of the Selectmen 
on Guide Posts and Boards, which will l>e found on page 
[851 | of these records. See file F, No. 27. 

Voted, To accept the Report on Guide Posts and 
Boards. 



Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 345 

Mr. James Bartlett presented the Report of the Selectmen 
in relation to laying out Mechanic Place and the new street 
west of the Town House, which is as follows. See file F, 
No. 28. 

REPORT. 

At tlic lust March meeting the Town voted thai the sum of six Hun- 
dred Dollars be appropriated to paying the land damages occasioned by 
laying ou1 Mechanic Place and the street wesl of Town House, and for 

Widening School Street, and If any surplus remained, that it lie devoted 

to making the roads and alterations, since which time there lias been 
hut little demand for gravel, consequently the road From Washington 

Street tO School Si reel has lint heen made: nn part of I lie said sum, 

therefore, has been appropriated for thai purpose, and still remains in 
the Treasury, excepl the paymenl to Oliver Cousens for his land dam- 
ages in Cull, of 071.69, and to William Dearborn for work, widening 
School St reel. $20.00; making 991.69 only expended from the whole 
appropriation. Timothj C. Leeds and Thomas Seaverns bave not heen 
settled with for their land damages; there was allowed by the award of 

the Select men to Messrs. Leeds anil Seaverns $428.89. 

The Selectmen would recommend thai Five Hundred Dollars be appro- 
priated to the payment of those gentlemen, and the surplus if any 
remaining be used for making said roads before stated. 

All of which Is submitted for the Selectmen. 

.1 ami:- 15 w\ i i.i n. ' 'hair man. 
BnOOKLINK, March L0, L861 . 

Voted, To accept the Report of the Selectmen upon 
Mechanic Place and the street west of the Town House. 

The Rev. William II. Shailer presented and read the 
Report of the School Committee of the condition of the 
Schools during the past year. 

Voted, To accept the Report of the School Committee, 
and that the same be referred back to them to be printed 
and distributed under their direction, in the usual manner. 

The Moderator presented the Report of the Auditing 
Committee, which had been printed and distributed accord- 
ing to the standing order of the Town. A copy is on tile 
F, No. — . 

Voted, To accept the report of the Auditing Committee. 

Mr. Moses Withington, the Town Treasurer, presented 
his report, which was as follows : 



346 



Brookline Toivn Records. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 
Receipts. 

From balance in the Treasury at the close of last year . 
" Wii). Gaston, Esq., the amount of fine imposed on 
Wm, H. Cowan for keeping a clog without a 

license . 

" Edward N. Perkins, tax for 1849, and stated in last 

report as unpaid $241 50 

less by abatement GG 50 



Jesse Bird, amount of funds in hands of Cemetery 

Committee at the last annual meeting 
State Treasurer for Support of Paupers 

" " School fund 

Bank of Brighton, loan in anticipation of 

taxes $2000 00 

less by interest .... 51 00 

Bank of Brighton, loan in anticipation of 

taxes. $500 DO 

less by interest .... '< 25 



Thomas Dillon, Pedlar's License . . . . . 
A. W. &, J. M. Seamans, proceeds of Hayscales one 

year . 

Wm. Dearborn, for gravel, loam & stones sold from ) 

Town land, & for use of land two years . . j 
A. Xewell, for taxes uncollected in 1847 
Sundry persons for use of Town Hall 
St. Paul's Society for use " " " to Feb. 1st, 1851 
Sundry persons for forty-nine dog licenses 
Taxes assessed for the year 1850 . $ 12301 20 

less by abatements . . $250 7(i 
" ••' Taxes unpaid . . 183 60 434 3G 



" Interest on sundry taxes ..... 

Whole amount of receipts from all sources 
Deduct payment to Bank of Brighton of loans 

Whole amount of available funds received 
Whole amount of expenditures 

Leaving balance in hands of Treasurer . 

Respectfully submitted. 

Moses Withington, 
Brookline, Feb. 25. 1851. See tile F, No. 31. 



11275 59 



10 00 



17.". nil 

398 41 

81 73 

70 22 



1949 00 



494 75 

8.00 

115 (if 

14t) 00 

15 18 

123 00 

105 50 

98 00 



11866 

8 


84 
82 


$16935 
2500 


08 
00 


. $14435 
. $12956 


08 
13 


$1478 
Treasun i 


95 



Voted, To accept the Treasurer's Report. 



Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 347 

Mr. S. Philbrick, of the Cemetery Committee, said that 
they had no report to make. 

Voted, To choose three Selectmen for the year ensuing. 

The polls were opened & closed by a vote of the meeting. 

The whole number of ballots was One Hundred & 
Eighteen. 

James Bartlett had One Hundred, 

Jerathmael Davenport " Seventy-one, 

William Dearborn " Seventy-four, and they were 

chosen Selectmen. 

Voted, To choose three Assessors for the year ensuing. 

The polls were opened and closed by vote of the 
meeting. 

The whole number of ballots was One Hundred and Six. 

Thomas Gri°'°;s had One Hundred and Four, 

John N. Turner " One Hundred and Six, 

Charles Stearns, Jr., " Fifty-four, and they were chosen 
Assessors. 

The polls were opened for the choice of a Treasurer, and 
they were closed by a vote of the meeting. 

The whole number of ballots was One Hundred and 
twenty-three. 

Moses Withington had Sixty-live, and was chosen Treas- 
urer. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector of Taxes. 

Voted, To choose a School Committee of Five. 

Rev. William H. Shailer, Mr. Samuel Philbrick, Rev. 
Frederick N. Knapp, Rev. William Horton, Mr. Samuel 
Eliot, were chosen School Committe by written ballots. 

Voted, To choose the remaining Town Officers by nomi- 
nation and hand vote. 

Voted, To choose three Surveyors of Highways. 

Hugh M. Sanborn, William Dearborn & Samuel Hills 
were chosen Surveyors of Highways. 

Voted, To choose three Constables. 

A. H. Clapp, Elisha Stone, James M. Seamans, were 
chosen Constables. 

Voted, To choose two more Constables. 



348 BrooMine Town Records. 

Franklin Tukey, Hugh H. Sanborn, were chosen Con- 
stables. 

Franklin Tukey declined serving, and Augustus Allen 
was chosen in his stead. 

Augustus Allen, H. M. Sanborn and A. H. Clapp were 
sworn as Constables by the Moderator. 
Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, To choose Fifteen Field drivers. 

James M. Seamans, J. Anson Guild, Oliver Whyte,* 
Thomas N. Woodward, William J. Griggs, Thomas B. 
Griggs, Harvey James, Benj. W. Clark, Simon Warren, 
George S. dishing, George T. Bartlett, F. Henry Corey, 
Nathaniel Lyford, Daniel Sanderson, Hiram R. Bean, were 
chosen Field Drivers. 

Voted, To choose two Fence Viewers. 

Clark L. Haynes, Charles G. Colbath, were chosen Fence 
Viewers. 

Voted, To choose two Surveyors of Lumber. 

J. F. Edwards, Elisha Stone, were chosen surveyors of 
Lumber & measurers of wood and bark. 

Voted, To choose one Sealer of Leather. 

Charles W. Tolman was chosen Sealer of Leather. 

Voted, To choose three Firewards. 

Augustus Allen, William W. Clement, Oliver Whyte, 
were chosen Firewards. 

Voted, To choose an Auditing Committee of three. 

Abijah W. Goddard, William I. Bowditch, Charles D. 
Head, were chosen auditing Committee. 

Simon Warren was chosen Pound Keeper. 

The following Prudential School Committee were chosen : 
Charles Stearns, Jr., North District; George W. Stearns, 
Middle District ; Samuel Hills, South District. 

Samuel Philbrick, Jesse Bird, Marshal Stearns, were 
chosen Cemetery Committee. 

The fourth Article was taken up, and the polls were 
opened for County Treasurer, and closed by a vote of the 
meeting. 



Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 349 

The whole number of ballots was seventy-one, all of which 
were for John Bullard. 

The fifth article was taken up, and the polls were opened 
for the choice of Register of Deeds, and were closed by a 
vote of the meeting. 

The whole number of ballots was Thirty, all of which were 
for Enos Foord of Dedham. 

The sixth article was taken up. 

Voted, To refer the matter of the Sixth Article, relating 
to a new Primary School, to the School Committee, with 
instructions to report at the adjourned meeting. 

Voted, To postpone the consideration of the Seventh 
Article. 

The eighth article was taken up, and Mr. John N. Turner's 
name being taken off at his request, the Jury List, as pre- 
pared by the Selectmen, was approved. This list is to be 
found on page [350] of these Records. 

The Seventh Article was now taken up. 

Voted, To refer the subject of the Seventh Article to the 
Surveyors of the Highways, with authority to fill up the 
road opposite said Walker's land when .they deem it nec- 
essary. 

Voted, To refer the subject of a New Lock-up to the 
Selectmen as a Committee, to report at the adjourned meeting. 

Voted, To postpone the consideration of the tenth article 
to the adjourned meeting. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourns, it adjourn to 
meet in this place on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of 
March current, at three o'clock in the afternoon. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Toum Clerk. 

The voting List was used in the election of Moderator, 
Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, Treasurer, School Com- 
mittee, County Treasurer, and Register of Deeds, and each 
name was checked before the voter's ballot was deposited. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



350 . Brookline Town Records. 

List OF JtTRORS PREPARED BY THE SELECTMEN AXI> APPROVED BY THE 

Town at the Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 

Drawn. 

1. James Bartlett. 

2. George Babcock. 

3. William Barnard. 
April 12th, 1852. 4. Benjamin F. Baker. 

5. John A. Bird. 

6. Henry W. Carr. 

7. N. G. Chapin. 

8. Samuel Clark. 

9. William W. Clement. 

10. David S. Coolidge. 

11. Caleb Craft, Jr. 
Sept. 1st, 1851. 12. Berfjamin B. Davis. 

13. Charles B. Dana. 

14. John Dane. 

15. Robert S. Davis. 

1G. Jerathmael Davenport. 

17. Isaac Dearborn. 

18. John F. Edwards. 

19. Clark L. Haynes. 
April 14, 1851. 20. Abijah W. Goddard. 

21. William J. Griggs. 

Dec, 1851. 22. Elijah Hersey. 

23. James Hobbs. 

24. Willard A. Humphrey. 

25. Sylvester Kimball. 
April 14, 1851. 26. Jonathan D. Long. 
Dec'r 5, 1853. 27. Nathaniel Lyford. 
April 12, 1852. 28. Charles Pope. 

29. James Robinson. 

30. Edward R. Seccomb. 

31. Augustus W. Seamans. 

32. Charles Stearns, Jr. 

33. Charles Warren. 

34. Joseph L. White. 

35. Oliver Whyte. 

36. Otis Withington. 

37. H. S. Williams. 

38. John W. Warren. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Tovm Clerk. 



Annual Meeting, March 10, 1851. 351 

REPORT OX GUIDE POSTS AND BOARDS. 

The Laws of the Commonwealth require the Selectmen of Towns, at 
the Annual Meeting each year, to report the state of the Guide posts and 
boards. In pursuance of such provisions, the Selectmen of this Town 
submit the following Report of the places where Guide posts and boards 
are erected and maintained by the Town, to wit : 

There is a Guide post, with a board thereon, standing at the junction 
of B-oylston Street with Washington Street, directing to Newton Upper 
Falls and Brighton ; one at corner Boylston and Heath Streets, directing 
to Newton, Worcester and Dedham; one at corner of Brighton Street, 
directing to Brighton ; one at Boylston and Cross Street, directing to New- 
ton Upper Falls, Newton and Brighton ; one at Heath and Warren Street, 
directing to Newton, Dedham and Brighton : one at Clyde and Warren 
Street, directing to Dedham and Brighton; one at Clyde and Xewton 
Street, directing to Brighton, Newton and Dedham; one at Grove and 
Newton Street, directing to West Roxbury and Dedham ; one at South 
and Newton Street, directing to Dedham. Brighton and Newton; one at 
Grove and South Street, directing to Brighton; one at Warren and Cot- 
tage Street, directing to Jamaica Plain and Dedham ; one at Warren and 
Walnut Street, directing to Jamaica Plain : one at Washington and Har- 
vard Street, directing to Brighton and Cambridge; one at Sewafl's 
Avenue and Harvard Street, directing to Cambridge and Cambridgeport. 
There being fourteen in all, which are all that are required at present, 
in the opinion of the Selectmen. 

All Avhich is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen. 

Brookline. March 10, 1851. James Baktlett. Chairman. 

Recorded. Attest: Wir.i. Asim.wv w.r.. Town Clerk. 



The Town Clerk, on the evening of the tenth day of 
March, A. D. 1851, made out his warrant and delivered the 
same to Constable Augustus Allen, requiring him to summon 
all officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within 
seven days, and be sworn (when an oath is required by 
law), or to signify their acceptance or refusal of the office to 
which they were severally chosen. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



352 BrookUne Town Records. 

Norfolk, ss. Bkookline. Then personally appeared 
the undermentioned persons, and were sworn before me at 
the times severally set against their names, or signified to 
me their acceptance or refusal of the office to which they 
have had severally been chosen. 

Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

10 March, 1851. S. Philbriek accepted as School Committee. 

10 March, 1851. Simon Warren sworn as Pound Keeper & field driver. 

11 " " Thomas Griggs declined " Assessor. 

12 " " W.W. Clement accepted " Fireward. 

" " •' Wm. Horton " School Committee. 

14 " " Sanvl Eliot 

" " " Henry James sworn Field driver. 

" " " Charles W. Tolman " Sealer of Leather. 

15 " " Geo. S. Cushing " Field driver. 
•' " " Nathaniel Lyford " " 

10 " " John F. EdAvards " Surveyor of lumber, &c. 

13 " " W. I. Bowditch accepted Auditing Committee. 

Chas. D. Head 
" " " Geo. W. Stearns " Prudential School Com. 

17 " " Wm. H. Shailer i: School Committee. 

18 " •' Moses Withington sworn Treasurer & ColPt'r. 

19 " " James Bartlett sworn Selectman. 

" " " Jerathmael Davenport sworn Selectman. 

" " " William Dearborn sworn Selectman. 

21 " " F. N. Knapp accepted School Committee. 

22 " " J. A. Guild sworn field driver. 

" " " Oliver Why te ■■ " & acc'd fireward. 

24 March, 1851. John N. Turner sworn as Assessor. 
" " " William I. Bowditch " " " 

" " " Charles Stearns, Jr. " " " ^highway Surveyor. 

" " " William Dearborn ■' " Highway Surveyor. 

" . " " Samuel Hill- " •' " " 

" " " Abijah W. Goddard " " fence viewer. 

Charles G. Colbath " 
ri " " Elisha Stone " surveyor of lumber, meas- \ 

urer of wood & bark. / 

" " " Charles Heath accepted as Auditor. 

•' " " James M. Seamans sworn i: Field driver. 

" " " Thomas B. Griggs " " " " 

Benj. W. Clark 

" " " F. Henry Corey " " " " 

" " " Augustus Allen accepted " fireward. 

" " " Charles Stearns, Jr. " prudential School Committee. 

" " " Samuel Hills " " " " 

" " " Samuel Philbriek " cemetery committee. 

" " " Jesse Bird " " " 

" " " Marshal Stearns " " " 



Adjourned Annual Meeting ', March 24, 1851. 353 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, 1851. 

Pursuant to the adjournment on the tenth day of March, 
the inhabitants of Brookline met in the Town Hall, on Mon- 
day, the twenty-fourth day of March, in the year One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, at three o'clock in 
the afternoon. 

The Moderator called the meeting to order, and read a 
list of the officers who had not qualified or who had declined 
serving. 

William I. Bowditch was chosen Assessor (in place of 
Thomas Griggs, who declined to serve) by written ballots, 
receiving Thirty-nine out of Sixt} r -three votes. 

W. I. Bowditch & Charles Stearns, Jr., were sworn as 
Assessors by the Town Clerk. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., was chosen Highway Surveyor, in 
place of H. M. Sanborn, who declined, and he and Wm. 
Dearborn and Samuel Hills were sworn as Highway Sur- 
veyors by the Town Clerk. 

Abijah W. Goddard was chosen Fence Viewer (in place 
of Clark L. Haynes, who had not accepted), & he and 
Charles G. Colbath were sworn as Fence Viewers by the 
Town Clerk. 

Elisha Stone declined serving as Constable. 

Voted, To reconsider the vote by which the Town decided 
to have five Constables. 

Voted, Not to excuse the field drivers who had not been 
sworn, but to fine them if they do not serve. 

Voted, To postpone indefinitely filling the vacancies in the 
office of field drivers. 

Elisha Stone was sworn as surveyor of lumber and meas- 
urer of wood and bark. 

Charles Heath was chosen Auditor, in place of A. W. 
Goddard, declined — and accepted. 

Rev. Wm. H. Shailer reported for the School Committee 
on the subject of a primary school in the North part of the 
Town. Said report was accepted and is on file F, No. 32. 

23 



354 BrooMine Town Records. 

Voted, To leave the subject of a new school to the School 
Committee, with full power to establish such school as they 
deem necessary. 

On motion of George F. Homer, it was — 

Voted, That a committee of five be chosen to consider and 
investigate the subject of introducing the study of music 
into the schools of this Town, and if they shall deem it 
expedient, present to the Town a plan for the same, and 
that said committee be requested to report to the Town in 
their discretion, at or before the next annual meeting. 

Voted, That said Committee be appointed by nomination 
of the Moderator of this meeting. 

The Moderator appointed George F. Homer, Benjamin 
B. Davis, Samuel Eliot, Edward R. Seccomb, and B. 
Chandler Howard, said Committee. 

On motion of Jerathmael Davenport, it was — 

Voted, That in future the report of the School Committee 
be printed and distributed with the Auditors' Report. 

On motion of Charles D. Head, it was — 

Voted, That in every order drawn on the Treasurer, there 
shall be stated the appropriation or appropriations against 
which it is drawn. 

Voted, That the books of the Selectmen and Treasurer be 
kept in future in such a manner as to show at any moment 
the precise portion of each appropriation which has been 
expended, and the amount which remains subject to draft. 
And in no case shall the Selectmen draw any orders be} r ond 
the appropriation, unless obliged so to do by circumstances 
beyond their control. 

Mr. Bartlett, for the Selectmen, made a verbal Report as 
to the expense of a new Lock-up, estimating the expense at 
three hundred and twenty -five dollars. 

On motion of Mr. Samuel Philbrick, it was — 

Voted, That Messrs. William I. Bowditch, William Dwight, 
Abijah W. Goddard, Daniel Sanderson, and George F. 
Homer, be a committee to take into consideration that part 
of the report of the School Committee which pertains to the 
subject of school houses, and make report thereon at their 
earliest convenience. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 24, 1851. 355 

Mr. Charles D. Head moved that One Hundred and fifty 
dollars be appropriated towards building a sidewalk in 
Warren Street from Mr. Howard's house by Deacon Clark's 
and Mr. John L. Gardner's land. Rejected. 

Voted, That the subject of said sidewalk be commended 
to the attention of the highway surveyors. 

Voted, That an additional appropriation of three hundred 
dollars be made and placed at the disposal of the school 
committee, to be used by them in case they find it necessary 
during the year to establish a school for such children as 
may be too large to enter the primary schools and not suf- 
ficiently advanced to enter the intermediate schools. 

Voted, That the sum of Twenty-five dollars be appropri- 
ated and placed at the disposal of the school committee to 
procure some standard works in different branches of study, 
to be held as the property of the town, and kept for the use 
of scholars in the High School as books of reference. 

Voted, That One Hundred and twenty-five dollars be 
appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of the 
Selectmen, of chandeliers and a new desk for the Town Hall, 
and for the alteration of the platform therein. 

Voted, That Three Hundred and Twenty-five dollars be ap- 
propriated to building a new lock-up under the Town House. 

Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the 
year ensuing, to wit : 

for the support of the poor, one thousand dollars . . $1000 00 

" " " " Schools, thirty-eight hundred dollars . 3800 00 

" '• ' ; highways, thirteen hundred dollars . . 1300 00 
" making town roads near the Town House, & widening \ 

School Street & land damages, five hundred dollars j 500 00 

" County tax, forty-five hundred dollars .... 4500 — 

" fire department, hydrant. &c, five hundred dollars . 500 — 

" collecting taxes, one hundred & fifty dollars . . . 150 — 

" abatement of taxes, two hundred & fifty dollars . . 250 — 

' ; Town Officers, eight hundred dollars .... 800 — 
" repairs of public buildings, two hundred & seventy-five 

dollars 275 — 

" extinction of town debt, one thousand dollars . . 1000 — 
" payment of interest on same, one hundred & ninetv 

dollars 190 — 

" grading, making & fencing new County road from~| 

Brighton Street to Washington Street, twelve nun- v 

dred dollars j 1200 — 

" Cemetery, fifty dollars 50 — 

" Contingencies, six hundred dollars .... 600 — 

$16115 00 



356 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the moneys appropriated to repairing the 
public highways for the year ensuing, be assessed upon the 
polls and estates of resident and non-resident inhabitants, 
and collected in the same manner that all other Town 
expenses are assessed and collected, and that said sum be 
drawn from the Treasury, by orders from the Selectmen, for 
the purposes above named, in payment of the surveyors' 
accounts, when presented and approved. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- 
ized to borrow Three Thousand Dollars, in anticipation of 
the taxes to be received. 

Voted, To adjourn without day. 

Adjourned. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Toivn Clerk. 



Perambulation of the Boundary Lixe between Brookline and 
roxbury, 23rd day of october, a. j). 1849. 

Be it Remembered, that on the 23rcl day of October, 1849, we, the sub- 
scribers, being authorized as the law directs, met and proceeded to 
perambulate the Boundary line between the City of Roxbury and Town 
of Brookline, viz. : beginning at the point in the full basin where the 
bounds of Boston, Roxbury and Brookline meet, from thence continuing 
the channel of Muddy River at the junction thereof with a brook run- 
ning between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam Road to a 
Monument on Washington Street ; thence Southerly and Westerly by the 
center of said Muddy Brook through the estate of James O. Ward; 
thence following the centre of said Brook through the land late of Sam- 
\iel Wyman, now Charles C. Perkins, until it meets a stone marked R.B. 
in the wall dividing said Perkins' land from the land of Joseph Curtis ; 
thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction to a stone 
monument marked R.B. standing in the fence between the lands of 
Thomas Lee and Joseph Curtis ; thence to a stone monument marked 
R.B. on Perkins Street in Roxbury and Cottage Street in Brookline; 
thence to a stone monument in the ground on the hill in Edward H. Rob- 
bins' land marked R.B. ; thence to a white-oak tree standing in the wall 
on land of Mrs. Wm. H. Eliot marked R.B. ; thence by said wall to a 
stone monument marked R.B. standing on B. Lincoln's land; thence to a 
stone monument marked R.B. at the corner of Alvin Loker's land ; thence 
to a stone monument marked R.B. lying on the wall on the east side of 
the end of Loker's lane ; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. in the 
wall on Land of Willard A. Humphrey's and land belonging to Charles 



Militia List, 1851. 



357 



Stearns, Jr. ; thence to a stone monument marked 11. B. in the wall 
between land of A. D. Weld and Randall; thence to a stone monument 
marked R.B. on the South side of Church Street in Iloxbury and South 
Street in Brookline; thence to a stone monument at the foot of a tree in 
A. D. Weld's land marked R.B. ; thence to a stone monument in John C. 
Gore's land marked R.B. ; thence to a white-oak tree marked R.B. stand- 
ing in the wall ; thence across the swamp to its westerly edge to a stone 
monument marked R.N.B., which forms the corner bounds between Rox- 
bury, Newton and Brookline line. All which bounds we have agreed to 
and renewed the day and year before mentioned. 

Francis C. Head, | Agents for the City 
Wm. B. Kingsbury, j of Eoxbury. 



James Bartlett, 
Jeb. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 



Selectmen 

of 
Brookline. 



Artemas Newell, Town Clerk. 

The above was received the nineteenth day of March, in the year One 
Thousand Bight Hundred and Fifty-one, and recorded by me. 

Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1851. 



Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
Wesley Powell 
Francis Coolidge 
Leonard Locke 
Charles Whittemore 
James W. Coolidge 
Andrew J. Harrington 
William J. Griggs 
Willard Jackson 
Ozias Locke 
Calvin Soper 
Moses Day 
John Shepherd 
James Hobbs 
George C. Barney 
Hutchins S. Coolidge 
William Perry 
William Aspinwall 



Seth ( lousens 
Daniel T. Eaton 
Benj. F. Baker 
George Tyler 
George F. Homer 
David Wilder, Jr. 
Daniel H. Rogers 
Charles Burrill 
Thomas Seaverns 
George Stoddard 
Oliver Whyte 
Moses C. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Edward D. Sohier 
Levi Barnard 
Charles M. Ford 
Calvin Smith 
David Sears, Jr. 
David Ecklev 



Charles Cotting 
I )mar Binney 
Charles Coolidge 
Francis Caverly 
Charles White 
Sylvester Kimball 
John L. Stone 
George W. Butters 
Ebenezer P. Wetherell 
James Williams 
Jonathan Sanborn 
Charles Morse 
Moses Morse 
Nathaniel Sawyer 
James Stratton 
Warren Hyde 
Moses Judkins 
Joseph Ferguson 
Morse, at Barnard's 



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Brookline Town Records. 



Albert H. Hovey 
Oliver Cousens 
Edwin Field 
Charles Brackett 
John Collins 
John Robinson 
Jeremiah Roberts 

— Tilson. at Brackett' s 
James Percy 
Stephen Archer 
George Chick 

Otis Mitchell 
Henry Mitchell 
John Green 
Samuel Premo 
Royal "Woodward 
Joseph Little 
Samuel Little 
J. Anson Guild 
Augustus Allen 
Roscoe Green 
John Aspinwall 
Ansel Waterman 
Abijah Stone 
Frederick James 

— Munroe, at Woods' 
Benjamin F. Germain 
Augustus W. Seamans 
Abraham II. Clapp 
James Blair 

Isaac Farrington 
Sidney D. Ostrander 
Philander D. Ostrander 
John H. Edwards 
Charles B. Dana 
Edward A. Dana 
Harrison Bird 
James M. Howe 
Pliny E. Kingman 
Edward C. Wilson 
Charles Pope 
William Pope 
Elijah Hersey 
George E. Hersey 
John Davis 
John H. Dane 
Edward Dane 
Charles F. Huntington 
Nathaniel Lyford 



Hunt, at Eckley's 

John Gustin 
John Park 
James Morse 
John H. Webber 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 
David T. Kenrick 
Benj. W. Hobart 
Samuel Hobart 
Albert W. Smith 
Stephen S. Stone 
Ransom N. Weld 
Thomas Lee 
Robert S. Davis 
Elisha Jacobs 
Alexander C. Studley 
Simeon Taylor 
( 'harles W. Tolman 
Dearborn Langley 
Albert Jennings 
Theophilus P. Chandler 
Simon Malcolm 
John W. Candler 
Gardner S. Rathan 
David S. (iilnian 
Stephen Allen 
Washington Atkinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Thomas Jefferson 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Moses Withington 
F. Henry Corey 

Joshua A. Little, at Gibbs 
James Edwards 
Charles F. Foster 
Charles True 
Peter Pierce 
William Eliot 
Swan 
Mitchell 
Harvey James 
Franklin Tukey 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
Alverda Mason 
Woodbury Mosher 
Philip Gannett 
George F. Willey 
Alvan Wiggin 



at Mrs. Merchants 



Abraham H. Lambert 
Nath. W. Brackett 
Jeremiah Chuff 
Charles Ballou 
Daniel Hall 
Frederick A. Corey 
George T. Bartlett 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin D. Crawford 
Josiah M. Russell 
S. Augustus Thayer 
George W. Patten 
George W. Minus 
Elijah C. Emerson 
George E. Carlton 
Stephen R. Griggs 
Edward R. Seccomb 
Augustus Griggs 
Isaac Taylor 
Henry A. Mellen 
David H. Daniels 
James L. Thompson 
Charles W. Scudder 
John N. Turner 
William I. Bowditch 
William A. Laclcl 
Benjamin Bradley 
George Haven 
William H. Jameson 
Josiah Bacon 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Edwin Howland 

George Atkinson 
Edward Atkinson 
Moses B. Williams 
William H. Slocum 
John Gilman 
George Griggs 
Benjamin Leeds 
Eben Wright 
Reuben A. Chase 
Lewis T. Stoddard 
George H. Stone 
Moses Stone 
William B. Towne 
William B. Dean 
John Colby 
Luther L. Greenleaf 



Militia List, 1851. 



359 



Robert Littell 
Oliver B. Delano 
Howard S. Williams 
Andrew H. Newell 
Hezekiah Shailer 
William H. S. Ventris 
Jona. D. Long 

Rand, at Long's 

Ivory Ross 
William W. Clement 
George S. dishing 
Charles L. Palmer 
Augustine Godfrey 
John Gibbs 
Eliphalet Farnum 
Abel B. Milliken 
Charles Bean 
Alfred Roby 
Ira Bean 

Willard J. Humphrey 
George Hancock 
Thomas Pike 
Daniel Kingsbury 
William Wallace 
Charles Smith 
John Jackman 
Elisha T. Penniman 
William P. Sanderson 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Nath'l Wentworth 
Eben. W. Reed 
Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
George Penniman 
Charles H. Heath 
John S. Warren 
Samuel Townsend, Jr. 
Thaddens J. Townsend 



George J. Moulton 
John Brown 
Nath'l G. Chapin 
George Hill 
Benj. W. Clark 
Samuel Clark 
John A. Bird 
William S. Wilson 
Benj. F. Kendall 
Alfred Winsor 
Henry W. Can- 
Emerson Leland 
William E. Richardson 
James M. Richardson 
Thomas Townsend 
Alfred Roby 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
Albert Clifford 
John II. Henshaw 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
( !harles Townsend 
James Eliot Cabot 
Henry Lee, Jr. 
Frank E. Howe 
John Blanchard 
J. D. Whitney 
James s. Amory 
Geo. J. Perry 
Henry Gordon 
Charles I). Head 
Joshua B. Clark 
Wm. 1'. Atkinson 
Henry Whitney 
Francis Perkins 
Thomas Parsons 
Henrv Weeks 



Charles Warren 
Daniel S. Kendall 
Augustus W. Newell 
Charles 0. Howe 
Clark L. Haynes 
William Bird 
Benjamin F. Gerry 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
William H. Leonard 
Thomas C. Pettinuill 
George W. Stearns 
Albert Cass 
AVillard A. Humphrey 
John H. Shumaker 
Samuel Eliot 
James Cheesbrouuh 

Everett, at Eliot 

Alvin Loker 
Jonathan Butterfield 
William J. Hyde 
Thomas Kennan 
Samuel D. Hills 
Hiram R. Bean 
Edward Haynes 
Charles G. Colbath 
Simon W. Clifford 
George White 
Caleb Craft 
( reorge < raft 
Charles Craft 
Robert .Miles 
Nath'l 1'. Johnston 
George W. Goodnough 
Xanthus Goodnough 
i reorge Harlow 
Simeon Gutterson 
John Cowan 
Total, 315. 



The above list of soldiers in the Town of Brookline is made up by us- 
five names being cancelled by us before signing our names. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 
William I. BOWDITCH. 
John N. Turner. 
Recorded & returned. June 14, 1851. 

Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



360 Brookline Town Records. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



SPECIAL MEETING, JUNE 16th, 1851. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



^Norfolk, to wit : To the Constables of the Town of Brook- 
line, Greeting : 

You are hereb} r required to warn the inhabitants of said 
Town to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on Monday, 
the sixteenth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight 
Hundred and Fifty-one, at half-past three o'clock in the 
afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : , 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To see what action the Town will take upon a notice received 
from the County Commissioners of an application made to them by the 
Charles River Branch Railroad Company to be allowed to construct their 
Railroad across Washington Street and across Cypress Street upon a 
level with said streets, and without bridges across the same. 

3rd. To see if the Toavu will accept and allow the Town way as laid 
out, altered and widened by the Selectmen, running from Walnut Street 
across Boylston Street to Washington Street, by taking land of Samuel 
A. Walker and the heirs <>f Rachel White, and appropriate money for the 
expenses of the same. 

4th. To see if the Town will make compensation in addition to the 
award of the Selectmen to Thomas Seaverns for damage done to his land 
by change of grade in the new street or way laid out from Washington 
Street between the Town Hall lot and the llolden Estate and along by 
the side of the land of said Thomas Seaverns. 

5th. To see what action the Town will take upon the request of N. 
G. Chapin and George J. Fisher that the Town would widen Walnut 
Street opposite the Reservoir. 

lith. To see what action the Town will take upon a notice received 
from the County Commissioners in relation to widening Newton Street 
as ordered by them in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty- four, and 
to see if the Town will appropriate any money for said purpose. 

7th. To sec if the Town will appropriate any money for repairing the 
hearse. 

Hereof fail not, and make return of this Warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said 
meetinof. 



Special Meeting, June 16, 1851. 361 

Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, this 
sixth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight Hun- 
dred and Fifty-one. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, June nth, 1851. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, 1 have notified the inhabitants of 
Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and for the 
purpose within mentioned, by leaving printed notices at the last and 
usual place of abode of every legal voter. 

A. II. Clapp, Constable of Brookline. 

The said inhabitants met in pursuance of the foregoing- 
warrant, at the time and place mentioned. The meeting 
was called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the War- 
rant and return. 

It was voted to choose the Moderator by nomination and 
hand vote. 

John Dane, Esq., was nominated and chosen Moderator 
by hand vote, but declining to serve, was excused by a vote 
of the Town. 

George F. Homer, Esq., was then nominated and chosen 
Moderator, and took the chair. 

The second article in the Warrant was taken up. 

A. W. Goddard, Esq., made the following motion : That 
the Committee chosen by the Town on 25th July last, to 
remonstrate against the petition of the directors of the Charles 
River Branch Railroad for liberty to cross Washington 
Street without a bridge, be now hereby instructed to offer 
no objection nor make any remonstrance on behalf of the 
Town against the recent petition of said directors to the 
County Commissioners for liberty to construct said road 
across Washington and Cypress Streets without bridges ; 
provided that Gates and a Flagman shall be required and 
provided at each of said crossings as a substitute for bridges 
— provided, also, that the County Commissioners reserve 
the right to require the erection of a bridge at either or both 
of said cossings whenever it shall be deemed necessary. 



362 



Brookline Town Records. 



This motion was supported by Messrs. John Howe, Sam- 
uel Philbrick, and A. W. Goddard, and opposed by Messrs. 
George B. Blake, W. I. Bowditch, and W. Aspinwall. 

George Griggs, Esq., asked the motion might be divided, 
so as to take question as to the Cypress Street crossing first 
alone, and the question was so divided. 

On motion of A. W. Goddard, Esq., it was ordered that 
when the vote is taken, it be taken by calling over the names 
of the voters on the voting-list, and their voting yes or no 
according as they were in favor of or opposed to the motion 
aforesaid. 

Said motion was then put, in relation to the Cypress 
Street crossing alone, and the vote being taken as ordered, 
it was rejected by Sixty-seven Yeas to Seventy-six Nays. 

The names of those who voted Yea were as follows : 



Augustus Allen 
James Bartlett 
George T. Bartlett 
Hiram R. Bean 
Jesse Bird 
Capt. B. Bradley 
Samuel Clark 
A. H. Clapp 
F. Henry Corey 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin I). Crawford 
Oliver Cousens 
Win. C. Cunningham 
Benj. B. Davis 
Jerathmael Davenport 
Patrick Dillon 
James Driscoll 
John Dustin 
John G. Faxon 
Isaac Farrington. Jr. 
Lemuel Foster 
Eliphalet Farnum 



A. W. Goddard 
Thomas Griggs 
Thomas B. Griggs 
William .1. Griggs 
George Griggs 
Elijah Hersey 
John Howe 
Willard A. Humphrey 
Warren Hyde 
Henry W. Jameson 
Moses Jones 
John D. Kelly 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 
Abner H. Knights 
David Kenrick 
Abraham H. Lambert 
Samuel B. Little 
Royal Mcintosh, 2nd 
Woodbury Mosher 
John McNamara 
Abel Milliken 
Artemas Newell 



Charles L. Palmer 
Samuel Philbrick 
Thomas C. Quimby 
James Robinson 
Daniel II . Rogers 
Daniel Sanderson 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Amos Snow- 
Charles Stearns, Jr. 
Marshal Stearns 
Klisha Stone 
Samuel Townsend 
Thomas Townsend 
Franklin Tukey 
John W. Warren 
Simon Warren 
Samuel A. Walker 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Henry Whitney 
Aaron Whitney 
Royal Woodward, Jr. 



The names of those who voted Nay were as follows 



Augustus Aspinwall 
William Aspinwall 
Edward Atkinson 
Georare Adams 



John Davis 
John F. Edwards 
Samuel Eliot 
Harrison Fay 



L. T. Stoddard 
John Shepherd 
Lafayettee Thayer 
Charles W. Tolman 



Special Meeting, June 16, 1851. 



363 



William P. Atkinson 
George Babcock 
Joseph V. Bacon 
Stephen G. Bass 
John A. Bird 
William Bird 
Harrison Bird 
George B. Blake 
William I. Bowditch 
Benjamin Bradley 
Honry W. Carr 
Thomas Celfe 
N. G. Chapin 
William Churchill 
Benj. W. Clark 
William W. Clement 
David Coolidge 
Charles G. Colbath 
George S. Cushing 
John W. Candler 
Charles B. Dana 
John Dane 
W illiam Dearborn 
William 1'. Dexter 
William K. Dean 



David R. Griggs 
Charles Heath 
Charles D. Head 
George N. Hill 
Benjamin Howard 
B. Chandler Howard 
George P. Homer 
James Hobbs 
Elisha Jacobs 
Daniel 8. Kendall 
Hugh R. Kendall 
B. Franklin Kendall 
Eliakim Littell 
Nathaniel Lyford 
Benjamin Leeds 
J. K. F. Manstield 
Andrew H. Newell 
Charles Pope 
William Pope 
F. W. Prescott 
Isaac Rich 
Charles W. Scudder 
George Searle 
Thomas Seaverns 
Samuel A. Slmrtlert' 



John Turner 
Ginery Twitchell 
George Tyler 
M. C. Warren 
Wm. A. Wellman 
Oliver Whyte 
Charles Wild 
Moses B. Williams 
David Wilder, Jr. 
Edward Wilson 
Alfred Winsor 
Ebenezer Wright 
John S. Wright 
William Wilson 

Mr. S. A. Thayer 
requested that his 
name might be called 
but as his name was 
not on the voting list 
and there being no 



evidence offered that 
he was a legal voter, 
the Moderator (objection being made to the name being 
called) declined to call his name, and he did not vote. 

Opportunity having been given to any voter to vote on 
the motion, and no one else offering to vote, the vote as 
aforementioned was declared. 

The vote ordering the calling over the list was then recon- 
sidered, and it was voted to take the vote on Mr. Goddard's 
motion in relation to the Washington Street crossing in the 
ordinary manner. 

The question on Mr. Goddard's motion as regarded the 
crossing of Washington Street by the railroad being put by 
the Moderator, it was rejected by a large majority. 

The Moderator declared the motion to have been rejected, 
and no voters doubting his decision, a count was not had. 

Mr. Harrison Fay moved that the committee appointed 
by the Town July 25th, 1850, to appear before the County 
Commissioners and oppose the crossing by the Charles River 
Branch Railroad of Washington Street, Cypress Street, or 



364 Brookline Town Records. 

any other highway in this Town, at grade and without bridg- 
ing, be instructed to continue their efforts before the County 
Commissioners in opposition to such crossings at grade. 

Mr. G. B. Blake moved, as an amendment to Mr. Fay's 
motion, that Mr. Harrison Fay be added to said committee. 

Voted, That George B. Blake, William I. Bowditch, and 
John Dane, Esq., the committee appointed by the Town on 
the twenty-fifth day of July last, with H. Fay, Esq., added 
as a member thereof, be and hereby are instructed to con- 
tinue their efforts in behalf of the Town in opposing the 
crossing of Washington Street, Cypress Street, or any other 
public highway in Brookline, by any railroad upon a level 
therewith and without bridging the same. 

The third article in the warrant was then taken up, and 
upon motion of John Howe, Esq., was laid upon the table. 

The fourth article being taken up, it was — 

Voted, To refer the subject of the fourth article to Messrs. 
Daniel Sanderson, A. Warren Goddard, and Charles Heath, 
to consider and report upon the same. 

The fifth article being taken up, it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to take such 
course upon the request of N. G. Chapin and Geo. J. Fisher 
as they shall deem most for the interest of the Town. 

Voted, That One Hundred Dollars be appropriated, to be 
expended under the direction of the Selectmen in widening 
Newton Street, as ordered by the County Commissioners in 
the year 1834. 

Voted, To appropriate One Hundred Dollars to repair the 
hearse. 

Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



Appointment of Town Clerk. 365 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Xorfolk, ss. Town of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the annexed appointment of the Selectmen of 
said town, the original whereof is on file, George F. Homer 
was appointed Town Clerk, pro tempore, during the absence 
of William Aspinwall, the Town Clerk ; and said Homer 
having this day been duly sworn to the faithful discharge of 
the duties of said office, has entered upon the performance 
of the same. 

Attest: Geo. F. Homer, Toicn Clerk, pro tern. 

Brookline, July 2 1st, 1851. 
Whereas, William Aspinwall, Town Clerk of Brookline, duly elected at 
the annual meeting of the Inhabitants of said Town, on the tenth day of 
March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and tifty-one, is about to 
be absent from said town for some weeks, and will, by such absence, be 
prevented from performing the duties of said office ; we, the Selectmen 
of said Brookline, do hereby appoint George F. Homer, of said Brook- 
line, to be Town Clerk pro tempore, during such absence of said Aspin- 
wall, to do and perform all the duties of said office. 

Witness our hands and seals, the 21st day of July, in the year one thou- 
sand eight Hundred and Fifty-one, at Brookline aforesaid. 

James Bartxett. [l.s.] 

J. Davenport. [l.s.] 

William Dearborn, [l.s.] 



366 BrooMine Town, Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING, OCTOBER 15, 1851. 

[SEAL. J 

[seal.] Commonwealth or Massachusetts. 

[SEAL.l 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of BrooMine, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town 
of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said Town, on 
"Wednesday, the fifteenth day of October current, at three 
of the clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, 
to wit : 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed 
December 16, 1850, to build a new road from the end of the Mill Dam to 
Washington Street, being the same petitioned for by Daniel Sanderson 
and others. 

3d. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow money 
and give the notes of the Town for so much of the cost of said Road as 
is not already provided for. 

4th. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed at 
the adjourned annual meeting, March 24, 1851, on the subject of school 
houses ; and to see if the town will appropriate any monies for the pur- 
chase of land for the erection of school houses and the building of the 
same. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this sixth 

day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

eight hundred and fifty-one. 

James Bartlett, ^ Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) BrooMine. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, October 10, 1851. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified the within named inhabit- 
ants of Brookline by leaving a printed notice at the residence of each 
voter as within directed. 

Hugh M. Sanborn. 

A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon. 

Attest : William I. Bowditch, Town Clerk, pro tern. 



Special Meeting, October 15, 1851. 367 

The Town Clerk not being present, the Selectmen called 
the meeting to order, and requested the qualified voters 
present to bring in their written ballots for a clerk pro tem- 
pore, which was accordingly done, and William I. Bowditch 
was declared duly elected clerk pro tern. Mr. Bowditch was 
then sworn by Thomas Griggs, Esq., faithfully and impar- 
tially to discharge all his duties as clerk pro tern, of this 
meeting. 

The clerk having read the warrant and return, as above 
given, James Robinson was duly chosen Moderator of the 
meeting by written ballots. 

The second article in the warrant being taken up, George 
Griggs, Esq., chairman of the committee mentioned in said 
article, presented the following report : 

The Committee appointed by the Town on the 16th of December, 1850, 
to appear before t lie Comity Commissioners and request them to lay out 
and locate, as soon as it can be legally done, the road from the Mill Dam 
to "Washington Street, and who were authorized if the County Commis- 
sioners should locate said — to contract to build the same, Report: That 
on the 25th day of December last they appeared before the commissioners 
as instructed, and requested them to lay out the Road. This request was 
opposed, and a remonstrance against it was laid before the Commission- 
ers, and at the request of the remonstrants, further time was granted 
them to show cause why the request should not be granted. 

After due consideration and all parties interested were fully heard, the 
commissioners, in April last, did adjudge that common convenience and 
necessity required said new highway should be laid out, and on the ninth 
and eleventh days of June last proceeded to lay out said highway. As 
soon as possible after the order of the commissioners locating the Road 
could be procured from their files, the committee advertised for proposals 
to build it, and after examining some 12 or 15 proposals, agreed, on 
behalf of the town, to pay for excavatiug and grading the road from 
Washington Street to land of Mr. David Sears, 12£ cents per cubic yard, 
and for grading the Road across the marsh 32 cents, and to pay $700 for 
planks to be used on the marsh & draining the same, and to pay $2 per 
cubic yard for culvert masonry. They subsequently contracted, on 
behalf of the Town, for fencing the Road where the County Commis- 
sioners ordered a fence, for 15 cents per running foot. The other items 
of cost will appear in the following estimate, which includes also the 
cost of excavation and grading at the above prices : 



368 



Brookline Town Records. 



Asa G. Shelden's bill for earth work from Washington 
Street to Pleasant Street 
" across the marsh 
" through land of Charles Stearns 
" draining marsh & planks 
" culvert masonry .... 

" extra labor in making a culvert and 
finishing around bridge on the marsh and furnishing 
planks for the same, and extra work around elm tree on 
Charles Stearns' land, and placing birches on Stearns' 
meadow . . . . . 

Charles Stearns' bill for gravel to till across his meadow, 
besides that taken out of the Road. Sqrs 
at 67 cts. ...... 

" " for trees used on his meadow 

David Sears, for gravel from his bank for the marsh, 642.4 

sqrs. at 50 cts 

Win. N. Lawrence, for digging one acre of his marsh for 

mud 

T. & J. Doane's bill for engineering .... 

Boston and Worcester Rail Road, for making crossing 
putting up sign-board ...... 

Abbot's bill for fencing, at 15 cts. pr. foot 
Calvin Smith's bill for grading road across land of Mr. David 
Sears ...... 

" " " " cutting and placing birch trees on 

Mr. Stearns' meadow, and for facines laid on same 
Cost of gravel to cover the road across the marsh and put 

ting it on and completing its construction 
Stone posts at angles of the Road and placing the same 
Sundry small bills for printing proposals, posting the same 

copy of order of the County Commissioners . 
Dictor's bill for bridge on marsh ..... 



Of this amount $3375.00 were subscribed by the Mill Dam 
Company and individuals, and $5000 has been borrowed 
by the Treasurer, under authority of the vote of Dec. 
16th, 1850 

Leaving a balance to be paid by the Toavu, estimated at 

To which should be added $150 interest which will become 

due on the $5000 already borrowed before the annual 

meeting 



$1243 67 

5391 74 

2450 — 

700 — 

471 62 



100 00 



1075 — 
5 — 

321 20 

300 — 
325 — 

300 — 
1300 — 

50 — 

31 50 

500 — 
40 - 

15 — 

180 — 

$14,099 73 



8375 — 



£5724 73 



150 00 



$5574 73 

Here the Committee might close their present report, as they cannot 
until all the bills are ascertained and rendered in give a perfectly exact 



Special Meeting, October 15, 1851. 369 

statement of the cost of the Road, as directed to do by the last vote 
passed Dec. 10, 1850. That report shall be prepared as soon as the bills 
are rendered and paid. 

That, as the Committee is in part composed of the same persons who 
■were on a committee to ascertain the cost of making this road, and all 
the members of this committee concurred in the opinion of that commit- 
tee that the road would cost much less than it actually has cost the town, 
and as some explanation of this difference may reasonably and fairly be 
required of them by their fellow-citizens, they deem it decorous and 
proper to state that they do not think it sufficient here merely to state 
that works of this character are very apt to exceed the estimates, as the 
case of almost, if not quite, every railroad, turnpike, canal, or other 
public highway, abundantly show--: but there were, in making this road, 
certain elements of expense not probably foreseen by the former com- 
mittee, certainly not anticipated by this. 

The first of these was the short period in which it was necessary to build 
the road. This necessity did not arise from the Limited time allowed by the 
County Commissioners, as they allowed a year, hut from the terms on 
which the Mill Dam Company and the individuals who subscribed had made 
their subscription, viz. : that the Roadshould he built within a year from 
the date of their subscription. A part were dated Oct. 8th ; thatof the Mill 
Dam was Oct. 19th. The Committee are happy to state that the road is hoav 
so nearly completed that the Mill Dam Company have paid in their subscrip- 
tion of §2000. and none of the individuals who subscribed have refused 
on the ground of its non-completion, nearly a thousand dollars having 
been already paid, and the remainder will probably be paid in a few days. 
But the committee did not wish to incur the risk of Losing these sub- 
scriptions, and consequently had to make the best bargain they could to 
get the work done quickly. The difference between having only 90 days 
to do the work in and having nearly a year, made the cost undoubtedly 
more, as the inconvenience of working on the marsh when it was not 
frozen, and of not allowing the contractors so much time as they wanted, 
undoubtedly added very considerably to the expense. This difficulty 
would have been avoided if those Avho remonstrated against the laying 
out of the road had not opposed its laying out till the very last, and 
induced the commissioners to postpone their decision until they could 
be fully heard. It certainly must be a satisfaction to all those who 
opposed the laying out of the Road to know that by their efforts the 
objections against the Road were fully and ably stated to the Commis- 
sioners', and that they did not act hastily, rashly, nor without due delib- 
eration and a pretty thorough and full examination of the merits of the 
question before them. If in consequence of this delay the additional 
cost of the Road. does not cause others to complain, the committee do 
not think that it will become those who caused this additional cost to be 
either very loud or bitter in their complaints. 

Another cause of difference between the original estimate and actual 
cost, is that in the former it was supposed the commissioners would take 
enough of the marsh on the sides of the road to allow the mud to be dug 
up on each side ; instead of which they refused to do so, and compelled 

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370 Brookline Town Records. 

the Town not only to be at the expense of buying the mud to make the 
Road and paying for planks to haul it on, but to pay some $2000 more, 
for moving it on to the Road than it would have cost to have had it 
thrown on from the sides. And lastly, the cost of filling in Mr. Stearns' 
meadow has added a large item which was not included in the former 
•estimate. 

In conclusion, the committee are now of the opinion that, though it 
does, like almost every public improvement, incidentally benefit some of 
those who have been most active in urging forward the completion of 
this work, yet, notwithstanding its great cost, it will, as its advantages 
as a public work are developed and appreciated, commend itself to the 
approbation of every inhabitant of the Town, and at a time now not 
distant Avill irresistibly lead their minds to the same conclusion to which 
the minds of the County Commissioners were led after a very careful 
and protracted examination, viz., that in the year 1851 common conven- 
ience and necessity did require that said highway should be laid out. 

Geor. Griggs, Chairman. 

On motion of Marshal Stearns, seconded by J. Davenport, 
it was — 

Voted, That all that part of said report which relates to the 
remonstrants against the laying out of the Road be struck out. 

The report as thus amended was then accepted. 

The third article in the warrant being taken up, it was 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the Town be authorized to 
"borrow a sum not exceeding $6000, payable in two, three 
and four years, at six per cent interest, payable semi-annu- 
ally, and to give the notes of the Town for the same, to pay 
for the new Road from the end of the Mill Dam to Washing- 
ton Street, laid out by the County Commissioners in June 
last, and to pay the interest on the $5000 already borrowed 
for that purpose, which interest will become due before the 
next annual town meeting. 

William I. Bowditch resigned his office as a member of 
the committee appointed Dec. 16, 1850, to build this new 
County Road, and on motion of Marshal Stearns, his resig- 
nation was accepted. 

The fourth article in the warrant being taken up, William 
I. Bowditch, Chairman of the Committee mentioned in said 
article, presented the following report : 

The committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to take into 
consideration that part of the report of the School Committee which 
relates to the subject of school houses, respectfully report : 



Special Meeting, October 15, 1851. 371 

That after consultation with the school committee, and consideration 
of the whole subject, we have been led to the conclusion that the cause 
of good education in Town demands the erection of two new school 
houses. We think one of these should be of wood, with two main 
rooms, one fitted for an intermediate school, and one for a primary 
school. It should be located somewhere near the corner of Warren and 
Clyde Streets, and have not less than half an acre of land attached for 
play-grounds. The other should be built of brick, two stories in height, 
with three main rooms, two of which should be fitted for an interme- 
diate school, with separate apartments for the boys and girls, and the 
third for a primary school. There should also be such other rooms in 
both buildings as may be found convenient or necessary. This brick 
school-house should be placed on Harvard Street, not far from School 
Street, on a lot of land not less than an acre in extent, so that separate 
play-grounds of adequate extent may be allowed for each school. The 
following are some of the reasons which led us to these conclusions. 
The intermediate schools have but partially remedied the evil they were 
intended to obviate. They are designed for a class of children who. 
though too far advanced to remain in the Primary Schools, are yet not 
sufficiently advanced to enter tlje High School with any benefit to them- 
selves or without positive injury to others. Obviously, such a class of 
children are a serious evil either in the Primary or High School. It is 
for the best good of these schools that these children should be gathered 
into a school by themselves. Hitherto, however, owing to the great 
distance from the West and South parts of the Town, the children living 
there who ought to attend the intermediate schools, have not been obliged 
to attend them, but the School Committee have been forced to allow such 
children to attend the primary schools in their respective districts. The 
consequences have been twofold : (1) Such children have not enjoyed 
the same advantages of education as those whose parents lived near 
enough to the Town Hall to enable their children to attend the schools 
here. (2) The scholars properly belonging to the Primary Schools in 
the South and Middle Districts have been impeded by being associated 
with children far beyond them, to whom the teachers have unavoidably 
been oliged to devote a large share of their attention. In other words, 
the present position of the schools is very partial and unequal. The 
South and West portions of the Town have never reaped their fair share 
of the advantages of the Intermediate schools, though they have paid 
their share of the expense. They have neither been able to educate their 
children at those schools nor have their Primary Schools reaped the same 
benefit from their establishment that the North Primary School has done. 
To remedy this injustice, and to provide a larger and better room for the 
Primary School in the Middle District, which is very much needed, we 
propose the erection of the school house near the corner of Warren and 
Clyde Streets, and the sale of the school house and lot on Heath Street. 
We propose that all children of suitable age and acquirements, whose 
parents live west of Mr. Knapp's church, or on Boylston Street, or any 
of the cross streets west of Cypress Street, should be obliged to attend 
this new intermediate school. 



372 BrooMine Town Records. 

In relation to the proposed erection of the brick school-house on 
Harvard Street, near School Street, we make the following suggestions : 
The new Town Road which has been laid ont west of the Town House, 
runs through the North Primary School House, taking off a strip about 
seven feet wide through the whole length, and accordingly renders the 
removal of that building necessary. Besides this, it is already far too 
small for the number of children attending school. The School Commit- 
tee are now seeking for another room in which to place part of the 
pupils. Nor is this only a temporary difficulty. The number of pupils 
in this school steadily increases. In 1847 the average attendance through 
the year was 38|, in 1848, 50f, and in 1850, 67. It is clear, therefore, 
that the present building must be moved from its present position, and 
either very greatly enlarged or a new house must be built to meet the 
present wants of this school. We think it poor economy to enlarge the 
present building. It would do well enough as it now is, in a thinly 
peopled district and for a few scholars, but for a large school it is very 
badly constructed, and can never be made satisfactory by any mere 
enlargement. It must also be materially altered in its arrangements as 
well as size, if it is to be made at all adequate to the wants of this Dis- 
trict. Perhaps at some day not far distant, it may be found convenient 
to move it where it may accommodate the growing want of a primary 
school on the Brighton branch of the IN L ill Dam. For such a school we 
think it would be entirely fitted and adequate. If a new house is to be 
built, we think it ought to be made large enough to accommodate the 
Intermediate Schools in this District, with school and recitation rooms. 
The lower story of the Town Hall is now needed for Town offices. The 
little room below, at the left hand of the entrance (only about twice as 
large as one of the cells in the new county jail), is the only room in the 
Town Hall in which at present Town Otlicers can meet and keep their 
records and papers. Here the Selectmen meet. Here the assessors 
transact that business which is so interesting to themselves and pleasing 
to the inhabitants generally. Here are kept the Town Clerk's records 
and tiles. The Town Treasurer and Collector has no place either for his 
records or files. But for the safe keeping of all these books and papers 
the Town is legally obliged to provide. It has no right to leave them or 
any of them in private houses. By Stat. 1851, Ch. 161, § 1, the Select- 
men are directed to provide a suitable [dace for the safe keeping and 
preservation of the public records and other valuable documents, where 
they shall be deposited and securely kept. How does the Town obey 
this law. when it provides no place whatever where the very important 
records and papers of the Treasurer may be deposited and securely kept? 
The safe in the room below' is not large enough for the safe and proper 
keeping of the record-books of the Selectmen and Clerk. The tiles, some 
of which are as important as the records, are carefully preserved from 
fire in wooden boxes outside the safe. These evils cannot be remedied 
without moving the schools from the Town Hall. This removal must 
take place soon, at any rate, and if a new school house is to be built 
now, we think that the Town will be wanting in due prudence if it does 
not make the new building large enough to accommodate these schools. 



Special Meeting, October 15, 1851. 373 

The only reason of importance which suggests itself why the new school 
house should be placed on School Street, is the fad Hint the Town owns 
the land. But we think a much better site may be chosen on Harvard 
Street, and probably some exchange of the Town's land on School Street 
may be made with the owner of the new school lot, or the Town land 
may be sold to such advantage as to enable us to obtain, on fair terms, 
the land we want. If the new school house is placed on the Town's land, 
it will have to be placed South of the new Town Road, ou what is now 
the gravel bank, and for a number of years yet to come the laud on 
School Street will be kept in confusion by the removal of gravel, and Ave 
think a better-shaped and conditioned lot can be chosen on Harvard 
Street than can be found on the Town's land, even after the gravel is 
removed. In relation to the size of the school-house lots, the law allows 
the Town to take land for a school-house lot not more than 40 square 
rods. This is little enough, certainly, and inasmuch as there are to be 
two schools kept in the building to be erected near the corner of Clyde 
and Warren Streets, we recommend the purchase of half an acre, or the 
statutable quantity for two schools, and as there will be virtually three 
schools in the building on Harvard Street, we recommend the purchase 
of one acre, or the statutable quantity for four schools, that being, in 
our opinion, none too much either for the convenience of the school or 
the proper ornament of the ground in front of the building so that it 
may not be unacceptable to the neighborhood. 

In conclusion, Ave recommend that a committee of live be appointed to 
select sites for the school houses above proposed, of the sizes above 
mentioned, to find the best terms upon which such lots of land may be 
obtained, and upon what terms the school house and lot on Heath Street 
can be sold, and that the same committee, acting in concert with the 
School Committee, cause plans of the new buildings to be made and 
estimates to be prepared of the cost of their erection, and report all the 
facts to the Town at the next annual meeting for further action. 
Respectfully submitted, 

William I. Bowditch, f 

Daniel Sanderson, > Committee. 

George F. Homer, J 

The foregoing report having been accepted, it was — 

Voted, That be a committee to select sites for the 

two new school hou&es recommended in the report of the com- 
mittee on school houses, this day presented, of the sizes 
therein mentioned ; to find the best terms upon which such 
lots of land can be obtained, and upon what terms the school 
house and lot on Heath Street can be sold, and that said 
committee (acting in concert with the school committee) 
cause plans of the new buildings to be made and estimates 
to be prepared of the cost of their erection, and report all 



374 Brookline Town Records. 

the facts on the foregoing subjects at the next annual meet- 
ing of the Town, for further action. 

Voted, That the committee contemplated by the last vote 
be chosen by nomination at large. 

Whereupon, the same committee of five who were appoint- 
ed at the annual meeting to report on the subject of school 
houses, were chosen as this committee. 

William I. Bowditch, chairman of this committee, declined 
serving, and David S. Coolidge was chosen in his stead. 

Daniel Sanderson declined serving on this committee, and 
Charles Heath was chosen in his stead, — so that the commit- 
tee entrusted with the execution of the last vote are as fol- 
lows : David S. Coolidge, William D wight, Abijah W. 
Goddard, Charles Heath, George F. Homer. 

Voted, To dissolve the meeting. 

A true record of the proceedings. 

Attest : William I. Bowditch, Clerk, pro tern. 



fSEAL. 
SEAL 
SEAL 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 10, 1851. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline. To the Constables of the 
Town of Brookline, Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth, you are hereby re- 
quired to warn the inhabitants of the town of Brookline 
qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in 
said Town on Monday, the tenth day of November present, 
it being the second Monday in said month, at half-past one 
o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls 
will be opened and kept open not less than two hours, for 
the following purposes, to wit : 

1. To determine whether the Town will send a Representative to the 
next General Court. 

2. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following officers, 
to wit : For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Commonwealth ; 



General Flection, November 10, 1851. 375 

For three Senators for this Comity ; for a Representative to the next 
General Court, if the Town determine to send one ; all to be voted for 
on one ballot. 

3. To give in their votes by ballot on the question, " Is it expedient 
that delegates should be chosen to meet in convention for the purpose of 
revising or altering the constitution of government of this Common- 
wealth?" 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals, this third day of November, 
in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 

Fifty-one. 

James Bartlett, 1 Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, )Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Buooklixe, Nov. 7, 1851. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline heroin described, to meet at said time and place 
and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving printed QOtfflcations 
at the last and usnal place of abode of every legal voter. 

A. H. Clapp, Constable. 

At half-past one o'clock, Mr. Bartlett, the chairman of the 
Selectmen, called the meeting to order, and the warrant was 

read. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 

Court. 

The polls were opened, and at half-past three o'clock it 

was moved and — 

Voted, To close the polls at five o'clock. 
At five o'clock the polls were closed, when the Selectmen 
counted the envellops and found the whole number to be 
Two Hundred and Ninety-one. The Town Clerk and they 
then proceeded to open the envellops and sorted and counted 
the votes for all the officers voted for, and declared the vote 
to be as follows, in open town meeting : 

The whole number of ballots for Governor was Two Hundred and 
Eighty-nine. 

for Robert C Winthrop of Boston, Two Hundred and Twelve. 
" Georse S. Boutwell of Groton, Fifty-two. 
" JohnG. Palfrey of Cambridge, Twenty-four . 
" Wendell Phillips of Boston, one. 



376 



Brookline Town Records. 



The whole number of ballots for Lieutenant-Governor was Two Hundred 
and Eighty-eight, 
for George Grennell of Greenfield, Two Hundred and Twelve. 

" Henry W. Cushman of Barnardstown, Fifty-two. 
" Ainasa Walker of North Brookfleld, Twenty-three. 
" Edmund Quiucy of Dedham, One. 

The whole number of ballots for Senators from this district was Two 
Hundred and Eighty-nine. 
For Marshall P. Wilder of Dorchester, Two Hundred and Fourteen. 



Lysander Richards of Quincy, 
William H. Carey of Medway, 



Zenas French 
Henry Hobart 
Edward L. Keyes 
Caleb Stetson 
Ezra Wilkinson 
Ezra S. Conant 
Jeremiah Hill, 
E. B. Dana, 



of Randolph, 
" Foxboro, 
" Dedham, 
" Brain tree, 
" Dedham, 
" Randolph, 

one. 

one. 



For 



Two Hundred and Thirteen. 

Two Hundred and Thirteen. 

Sixty-two. 

Sixty-two. 

Sixty-four. 

Nine. 

Nine. 

Nine. 

Charles D. Head, one. 

William I. Bowditch, one. 



The whole number of ballots for Representative to the General Court 
was Two Hundred and Sixty-eight. Necessary for a choice One Hun- 
dred and Thirty-five. 

for George Babcock, Forty-two. 

James Robinson, Five. 

Willard A. Humphrey, Two. 

Jerathmael Davenport, One. 

James Bartlett, Two. for 

N. C. Dana, Two. 

Charles B. Dana, One. " 

John N. Turner, one. " 



J. K. F. Mansfield, 
E. B. Dana, 
William I. Bowditch, 
William H. Jameson, 



Seven, 
two. 
One. 
one. 



William Aspiuwall, Two Hundred and one, and he was chosen 
Representative to the General Court. 

The Avhole number of ballots on the question as to calling a Convention 
for revising the Constitution was Two Hundred and Sixty-four. 

The number of Yes was Forty-nine. 
" " No was Two Hundred and Fifteen. 



The result of the voting having then been recorded as 
above in open town meeting, and the record having been 
publicly read and declared by the Town Clerk, the returns 
were made out from the record and signed by the Selectmen 
and the Town Clerk and then sealed up in open town meet- 
ing and delivered to the Town Clerk to be transmitted to 
the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



Special Meeting, December 1, 1851. 377 

In the voting a check-list of the voters' names was used, 
and no person was allowed to deposit his ballot until his 
name had been found upon the list and checked. 

About seven o'clock in the evening, all the business of the 
general election of 1851 having been accomplished, Mr. 
Bartlett, the Chairman of the Selectmen, declared the meet- 
ing Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 1st, 1851. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Toivn of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to warn the inhabitants of the town of Brookline 
to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on Monday, the first 
day of December, in the year One Thousand Eight hundred 
and fifty-one, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the fol- 
lowing purposes, to wit : 

1. To choose a Moderator. 

2. To consider the subject of offering a reward for the detection and 
conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the barn on the 
premises occupied by William Dwight, Esq., on the twentieth instant, 
and to consider generally the subject of protecting the property of the 
citizens of this town against incendiaries, in pursuance of the application 
of Charles Heath and ten other legal voters to the Selectmen. 

3. To see if the Town will appropriate Two Hundred dollars to pay 
the reward offered by the Selectmen for the conviction of the person who 
set fire to the barn of Thomas N. Woodward, and any other sum for any 
further reward which the Town may offer. 

i. To authorize the Treasurer to borrow any sum of money which 
may be necessary to pay any rewards which the Selectmen have ottered 
or the Town may offer. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 



378 Brookline Town Records. 

Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twentieth day of November, in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-one. 

James Bartlett, } Selectmen 
J. Davenport, > of 

William Dearborn, ) Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, December 1st, 1851. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have warned the inhabitence of this Town 
as within directed, by leaving a printed notice at the residence of each 
voter, as within mentioned, four days before the day of said meeting. 
Hugh M. Sanborn, Constable of Brookline. 
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

At ten minutes after three o'clock in the afternoon of the 
first day of December, A. D. 1851, the Town Clerk called 
the meeting to order and read the warrant. 

Voted, To choose a Moderator by nomination and hand 
vote. 

Mr. J. Davenport was chosen, but was excused at his own 
request. 

Mr. Georo-e F. Homer was then nominated and chosen 
Moderator. 

Mr. Homer took the chair as Moderator. 

On motion of Mr. Charles Heath, amended on motions of 
Messrs. Jesse Bird and J. Davenport, it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized 
and directed to offer a reward of five hundred dollars, to be 
paid from the Treasury of this Town, to any person or per- 
sons who shall give such information and render such service 
as shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or 
persons who, on the night of the 25th of August last, 
maliciously set fire to the barn of Mr. E. P. Wetherell in 
this town, or who, on the morning of Thursday, November 
20th inst., maliciously set fire to the barn of William Dwight, 
Esq,, or for the arrest or conviction of any person or per- 
sons who shall maliciously set fire and burn any dwelling 
houses or buildings therewith connected, barns, shops, or 
any public buildings in this town within one year from this 
first day of December, 1851. 



Special Meeting, January 22, 1852. 379 

Voted, That the sum of Two hundred dollars be appro- 
priated to pay the reward offered by the Selectmen for the 
conviction of the person who set fire to the barn of Mr. 
Thomas N. Woodward, and the sum of Five Hundred dol- 
dollars be appropriated to pay the reward offered in the 
preceding vote. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow Two 
Hundred Dollars at once, to pay the reward offered by the 
Selectmen as mentioned in the preceding vote, and Five 
Hundred Dollars when called for to pay any reward now 
offered by the Town. 

Voted, To dissolve this meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



[SPECIAL MEETING, JANUARY 22, 1852.] 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town 
of Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on 
Thursday, the twenty-second day of January current, at two 
o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit: 

1st. To choose a Moderator. 

2nd. To see what action the town will take upon the suit brought 
against it by Asa G. Sheldon upon his contract for building the new 
county road from the Mill clam to Washington Street. 

3rd. To see what action the town will take upon the suit brought 
against it by Charles Stearns for gravel and other materials furnished by 
him to the town for building said road. 

4th. To hear and act upon the Reports of any Committees who are 
ready to report. 



380 Brookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline, this thir- 
teenth day of January, in the year One Thousand Eight 
Hundred and fifty-two. 

James Bartlett, ) Selectmen of 
J. Davenport, $ Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, January 17th, 1852. By virtue of this 
•warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of Brookline to meet 
at said time and place and for the purposes herein described, by leaving 
a printed notice at the residence of each voter, as herein directed. 

Hugh M. Sanborn, Constable. 
A true copy of the Warrant and the return thereon. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 

In accordance with the terms of the foregoing warrant, 
the inhabitants of Brookline met at the Town Hall of Brook- 
line, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at twenty 
minutes after two o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the 
twenty-second day of January, in the year One Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Fifty-two. 

The warrant having been read, upon motion of Mr. S. 
Phil brick, it was — 

Voted, To choose a Moderator by nomination. 

Mr. James Robinson was nominated and chosen Moderator. 

Upon taking up the second and third articles together, 
Mr. G. Griggs moved, and it was voted, as follows : 

Voted, That be a committee to examine the claims 

of Sheldon and Stearns against the town for which they 
have brought actions, and retain counsel and defend the 
same or to settle the same, in their discretion. 

After debate, it was voted that the blank be filled with 
five names, and nominations being called for, Messrs. John 
Howe, Geo. F. Homer, Geo. B. Blake, Wm. I. Bowditch, 
John Dane, were nominated and chosen to serve upon the 
committee. 

Mr. Homer declined serving, saying that he was the only 
member of the committee named who was present, and that 
probably none of the other gentlemen chosen would serve. 



Special Meeting, January 22, 1852. 381 

Upon motion of Win. Aspinwall, it was — 

Voted, To reconsider the vote whereby Messrs. Howe, 
Homer, Blake, Bowditch & Dane were appointed a commit- 
tee to examine the claims of Sheldon and Stearns against the 
town, for which they have brought actions, and retain coun- 
sel and defend the same or to settle the same, in their 
discretion. 

And the motion being put, it was rejected. It was then 

Voted, That Messrs. G. F. Homer, S. Philbrick, J. Dav- 
enport, Jesse Bird and James Robinson be a committee to 
examine the claims of Sheldon and Stearns against the town, 
for which they have brought actions, and retain counsel and 
defend the same or to settle the same, in their discretion. 

It was then — 

Voted, That the committee appointed to examine and act 
upon the claims of Messrs. Sheldon and Stearns, have full 
power to submit the same to arbitration or to defend or 
settle the same by compromise or otherwise, at their dis- 
cretion. 

There being no committees prepared to report, it was then 
voted to dissolve the meeting, and the meeting was accord- 
ingly Dissolved. 

Attest : Wm. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



PERAMBULATION BETWEEN BROOKLINE AND BOSTON. 

We the subscribers, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Boston 
and the Selectmen of the town of Brookliiie, pursuant to notice, met the 
fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1851, at the time and place appointed, 
and run the line and renewed the bound marks between the city of Bos- 
ton and the town of Brookline as follows, to wit : 

Beginning at a stone post marked Bo. on the easterly side and Br. on 
the westerly side, standing on the Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam west- 
erly from the new filling sluices erected in said Dam (the old sluices 
referred to in the act of February 22nd, 1825, entitled " An act relative to 
the boundary lines of the city of Boston and to the town of Brookline" 
having been removed) , thence running northwesterly from said post at 
an angle of one hundred and fifteen degrees from the Mill Dam until it 
strikes the center of the channel of Charles River, and also running from 
the said post Southerly at an angle of one hundred and three degrees 



382 Brookline Town Records. 

forty minutes until it strikes the center of the channel of Muddy River 
at a point where the respective boundaries of Boston, Brookline and 
Roxbury meet each other, being the same line mentioned and described 
in the above recited act. 

In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands the day and year 
first above written. 



John P. Bigelow, Mayor, 



and Henry B. Rogers, 
Billings Briggs, 
A. B. Munroe, 
Moses Grant, 
Moses Kimball, 
Benj'n Smith, 
H. M. Holbrook, 
Calvin W. Clark, 



James Bartlett, "| Selectmen 
J. Davenport, >■ of 

Aldermen William Dearborn, J Brookline. 

of 

Boston. 

Will. Aspinwall, 

Town Clerk of Brookline. 



The foregoing is a true copy of the original, and was recorded the 

twenty-fourth day or February, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred 

and Fifty-two. 

Attest : Will. Aspinwall, Town Clerk. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 8, 1852. 



WARRANT. 

seal/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

SEAL." 

Norfolk, to wit. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to warn the inhabitants of the town of 
Brookline to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on Mon- 
day, the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-two, at one o'clock in the afternoon, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 
Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- 
mittees. 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 383 

Fourth. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

Fifth. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
deemed necessary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing 
year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twenty- 
sixth day of February, in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-two. 

James Bartlett, 
J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
File G, No. i. Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, February 4th, 1852. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have warned the inhabitants of the town 
of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
named, by leaving a printed notice at the residence of each voter, as 

within directed. 

Hugh M. Sanborn, 

Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon. 

Attest: B.F.Baker, 
See file G, No. 1. Town Clerk. 

At twenty minutes past one o'clock the meeting was called 
to order by the Town Clerk, William Aspinwall, Esq., who 
presided during the choice of a Moderator by written ballots. 

The whole number of ballots for Moderator was twenty- 
eight. G. F. Homer, Esq., had twenty-eight, and was 
chosen Moderator, and took the chair. 

At the request of the Moderator, prayers were offered by 
the Rev. W. H. Shailer. 

The ballots for Town Clerk being called for by the Mod- 
erator, the whole number was eighty-eight — necessary for a 
choice, forty-five (45) : John Dustin had one (1), M. B. 
Williams had one (1), Will'm Aspinwall had one (1), Elijah 
Hersey had three (3), Artemas Newell had thirty-seven (37), 
Benj. F. Baker had forty-five (45) and was chosen Town 



384 Brookline Town Records. 

Clerk for the ensuing year, and was sworn to the faithful 
discharge of the duties of that office by the Moderator. 

Voted, That the second article in the warrant be laid on 
the table, and to take up the third. 

The reports of committees and officers being called for, 
G. B. Blake presented and read the following report of the 
Committee onEailroads Crossing at Grade. (File G, No. 2.) 

REPORT. 

Your committee, to whom was entrusted the opposing of the crossing 
of railroads at grade of the roads of this town, beg leave to report that 
they have attended to that duty. After a very prolonged investigation 
before the County Commissioners, in which the Charles River Branch 
Railroad Corporation employed two distinguished counsel, the Commis- 
sioners have ordered a bridge to be built over Washington street cross- 
ing. Your committee make no charge for their own personal services, 
but ask your allowance of the necessary expenses which have been 
incurred in the several days' trial which were had in the case, viz. : 

Amounts paid by Blake, Ward & Co. : — 

To W. I. Bowditch, for p'd by him to Wm. W. Clement for 
his services in taking act. of passengers on road, two 
men 2 days $8 00 

To A. H. Clapp, Constable, for expense summoning wit- 
nesses, &c. 5 26 

For sundries, as per vouchers, being for expenses of obtain- 
ing remonstrances, &c 8 50 

Paid William Aspinwall, as advanced for fees to wit- 
nesses, &c 20 00 



Forty-one 76-100 dollars . . $41 76 

Also, to be paid : 

To Wm. Whiting for professional services, advice, arguing 
before the County Commissioners, two hundred and 
fifty dollars #250 00 

To William Aspinwall, balance due him for expenses of sum- 
moning witnesses, &c, two 12-100 dols 2 12 

And the committee ask an appropriation from the town to pay the 
same. For the Committee, 

Brookline, March 8th, 1852. G. Baty Blake. 

Voted, To accept the report. (File G, No. 2.) 

Voted, To accept the Auditor's report. (File G, No. 3.) 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 385 

Voted, To adopt the vote proposed by the Auditors to 
the consideration of the town. (See report, to Avit : see 
fileG, No. 3.) 

Voted, That the Selectmen shall have power to increase 
the different appropriations made by the town by transferring 
from the appropriations for contingencies such sums as they 
may find necessary, and to direct the Treasurer to act 
accordingly. 

Mr. James Bartlett presented and read the following 
report on Guide Boards and Posts. 

REPORT. 

According to the Laws of the Commonwealth the Selectmen submit 
the following report of places where guide-posts and boards are erected 
and maintained by the town, to wit : 

There is a guide-post with a board thereon standing at the junction of 
Boylston with Washington street, directing to Brighton. 

One at corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, 
Worcester and Dedham. 

One at corner of Brighton street, directing to Brighton. 

One at Boylston and Cross street, to Newton Upper Falls, Newton and 
Brighton. 

One at Heath and Warren streets, directing to Newton, Dedham and 
Brighton. 

One at Clyde and Warren streets, to Dedham and Brighton. 

One at Clyde and Newton streets, to Brighton, Newton and Dedham. 

One at Grove and Newton streets, to West Roxbury and Dedham. 

One at Grove and South streets, to Brighton. 

One at South and Newton streets, to Dedham, Newton and Brighton. 

One at Warren and Cottage streets, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain (in 
Roxbury) . 

One at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain. 

One at Washington and Harvard streets, to Brighton and Cambridge. 

One at Sewell's avenue and Harvard street, to Cambridge and Cam- 
bridge Port. 

There being fourteen and all in good condition. 

All of which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen by 

James Bartlett, 
Brookline, March, 1852. Chairman. 

Voted, To accept the report on Guide Boards and Posts. 
(File G, No. 4.) 



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then presented the 



Mr. Moses Withington, Treasurer, 
following report : 

REPORT. 

Receipts. 

From the balance in the Treasury at the close of last year . 
" William Aspinwall, for sale of town maps 
" Sundry persons, dog licenses, . . . . . 
" A. Newell, the tine imposed upon Thomas O'Dea for 
keeping a dog without license .... 
" State Treasury on ac't of paupers .... 
" " " • am't of School fund .... 

" The Bank of Brighton, loan in anticipation 

• of taxes . 3000 00 

Less the interest . . 66 50 

" Sundry persons, use of Town Hall . . . . 

" St. Paul's Society for use of '• " one year . 

■' William I. Bowditch, guardian of Gideon Vinall, 

cash borrowed to defray the expenses of new road 

from Mill Dam to Washington street, as per vote 

of the town passed Dec. 16th, 1850 

" Charles J. & George A. Taylor, cash borrowed to 

defray the expense of new road from Mill Dam to 

Washington street, as per vote of town passed 

Dec. 16th, 1850 

" Charles B. Hall, Treasurer of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, cash borrowed to defray the 
expense of new road from Mill Dam to Washing- 
ton street, as per vote of the town passed Oct 

15th, 1851 

" Sundry subscriptions for new road from Mill Dam to 
Washington street .... 

Thomas Dillon, for license to peddle . 
Clark S. Bixby, proceeds of hay-scales . 
A. W. & J. M. Seamans " " " 

William Dearborn & James Bartlett, gravel 
" Jesse Bird, two lots in the cemetery . 
" Interest on sundry taxes .... 
The whole amount of taxes assessed for 

the year 1851 $14,786 08 

Less the abatements . 291 97 

Whole amount of receipts from all sources . 
Deduct payment to Bank, Brighton, for loans 



Whole amount expended 
Leaving a balance in the treasury of 



SI, 478 95 

3 00 

118 00 

10 00 
41 06 

'75 4i ; 



2,933 50 
56 00 
92 50 



2,000 00 



3,000 00 



6,000 00 

2,625 00 

8 00 

58 66 

56 30 

77 25 

50 00 

22 99 



14,494 11 

$33,200 78 
3,000 00 

830,200 78 
28,653 14 

$1,547 64 



The Treasurer holds one note for the town for one thousand dollars 
($1,000), given by Henry Crehore, dated Dec. 4th, 1851, payable in three 
years, with interest annually. Said note is secured by mortgage. 

Respectfully submitted, 
Brookline, Feb'rv 25th, 1852. Moses Withixgtox, Treasurer. 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 387 

Voted, To accept the Treasurer's Report. (File G, 
No. 5.) 

G. F. Homer, Esq., presented and read the following 
report of the Committee on the lawsuits bro't against the 
town by Asa G. Sheldon and Charles Stearns, Sen'r : 

REPORT. 

The Committee of the town of Brookline on the suits of Asa G. 
Sheldon and of Charles Stearns against the town, report as follows : 

The suit of Mr. Sheldon was brought in the Supreme Court of Middle- 
sex County, and was to recover the sum of sl2.s91.tl2 under his written 
contract with the town for the construction of the new Mill Dam road, 
the further sum of $1,546 for damages caused by delay in the cut through 
land of Charles Stearns, and the sum of $1,425.76 for extra work, making 
an aggregate of fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars 
and thirty-eight cents ($15,863.38). This claim of Mr. Sheldon's, accord- 
ing to the admission of his counsel in his presence, was not made up 
from any calculations or surveys or reliable data, but was a mere jump. 
or, as Ave suppose, rather a run of luck. Your committee have exam- 
ined these claims of Mr. Sheldon, and heard thereon the statements of 
the Committee on the Mill Dam Road, the engineers, and also of Mr. 
Sheldon and his counsel. 

There appears to be due to Mr. Sheldon, under his contract with the 
town, the sum of $10,245.74. This was according to the survey of Mr. 
Thomas Doane, the engineer of the road, whose appointment was acqui- 
esced in by Mr. Sheldon, and whose decision in the premises, according 
to the contract, is final. There has been paid to Mr. Sheldon by the 
Treasurer of the town, on account of this contract, the sum of $8,779.30 ; 
so that there remains a balance due Mr. Sheldon, according to Doaue's 
survey, the sum of $1,466.44. Your committee met the claims of Mr. 
Sheldon in the spirit of compromise with liberality, as becomes the town 
of Brookline in settlements with its employees, and also in justice to its 
tax-paying citizens. After a careful examination of the several claims, 
your committee, with great readiness and entire harmony, resolved to 
offer to Mr. Sheldon, by way of compromise and without prejudice, the 
sum of $525.76 in addition to the balance due him on his contract, and 
this proposition was accordingly made in writing to Mr. Sheldon. Mr. 
Sheldon's counsel verbally stated to your committee that he would settle 
for $15,000, deducting payments, thus making the difference in the two 
propositions of $4,229.50. There seemed to us no probability of a com- 
promise, and after much negotiation, said suit has been, under a rule of 
the Court, [submitted] to the arbitration of J. Thomas Stevenson and 
Waldo Higginson of Boston and Jesse Bird of Brookline, who were 
selected by us from a list of ten or twelve names furnished by Mr. Shel- 
don. The referees have not as yet assigned the time of hearing. Your 
committee have retained as counsel Mr. Edward D. Sohier, Esqr., of 
Brookline, and they recommend that the suit of Asa G. Sheldon against 



388 Brookline Town Records. 

the Inhabitants of Brookline, be resisted by the town to the extent of 
the law, and they further recommend a special appropriation of five 
hundred dollars to meet the expenses of the same. 

Your committee would add that the town has been formally notified 
that Mr. Sheldon's claims against the town have been assigned to sundry 
persons, and trustee processes have also been served on the town, 
amounting in all to the sum of $3,240.71. 

In the matter of the suit of Charles Stearns vs. the Inhabitants of 
Brookline, your committee make the following report : 

This was a suit against the town, in the County of Norfolk, 

to recover for 1874. GO squares of gravel, at 4s. per square, $1,249 33 

Timber used in 5 00 

One half of Surveyor's bill 25 00 

Making a total of $1,279 33 

With interest thereon. 

This bill was never presented by Mr. Stearns to the Committee on the 
Mill Dam Road. There was no question as to the prices of the gravel, 
and the matter in controversy did not much exceed $200. Your commit- 
tee, after a careful examination of the same on two several occasions, 
and afterwards hearing the statements of the committee on the road, 
and of Mr. Charles Stearns, Jr., and also of the engineers of the road 
and the engineer employed by Mr. Stearns, were constrained, by various 
considerations, to allow Mr. Stearns a part of this difference as justly 
due to him. The balance remaining, and which might be deemed a fair 
subject of defence, was so trifling that Ave did not consider it worth 
while for this committee to spend any more time in examining with 
precision the accuracy of mathematical culculations and measurements. 
And we thought it not to be for the interests of the town to contest the 
same in a suit at law. Your committee accordingly resolved unanimously, 
inasmuch as Mr. Stearns declined a compromise, to settle the suit of Mr. 
Stearns against the town debt at cost, and the same has been paid by the 
Town Treasurer, amounting in all to the sum of thirteen hundred and 
sixteen j 3 -^ of dollars ($1316.37). This decision does not by any means 
impair the accuracy of the survey of the engineer of the road, nor does 
it admit the justice of the entire claim of Mr. Stearns. 

In conclusion, at the request of Mr. Jesse Bird, your committee sug- 
gest the propriety of the town's releasing him from further services on 
this committee, inasmuch as he has accepted the duty of arbitrator in 
the case of Sheldon. 

G. F. Homer, 
Sam'l Philbrick, 
J. Davenport, 
James Robinson, 
Jesse Bird, 
Brookline, March 1st, 1852. Committee. 

Voted, To accept the report. (File G, No. 6.) 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 389 

Voted, That Mr. Jesse Bird be released from serving on 
the committee to whom was entrusted the prosecution of the 
Sheldon suit and the suit of Mr. Stearns, he having accepted 
the appointment of referee. 

George Griggs, Esq., from the committee on building, the 
new county road from Washington street to end of the Mill 
Dam, presented the following report: 

REPORT. 
The committee for building the new road from Washington street to 
the end of the Mill Dam, ask leave to report progress. At the time of 
their report to the town on the 15th of October last they expected to be 
able to complete the road, settle the bills, and make a final report at this 
meeting. They then submitted an estimate of the amount of and the 
town authorized its Treasurer to borrow money to meet those estimates. 
They have settled all the bills against the road known to exist excepting 
those of two individuals: Asa (i. Sheldon and Charles Stearns. They 
have paid, on account, a large amount to Sheldon, as will appear by the 
account annexed, but were unable to agree with him for the balance of 
his claim upon terms of what they thought due from the town to him, 
and he always refused to settle upon the terms which the committee 
offered. They have paid no part of the bill due to Mr. Stearns, beiiiir 
unable to agree with him as to the amount to which he was entitled, and 
he declined to receive any part of his claim unless the whole was paid. 
Upon these two accounts actions were brought against the town, and 
this committee referred them to the town at a meeting held to decide 
what action the town would take respecting these claims, by whom a 
special committee was appointed, and whose report will be submitted 
as to their doings in the premises. The committee believe the road com- 
plete with the exception of putting about a hundred squares of gravel 
on the road across the marsh, filling in the Stearns' meadow to bring the 
road up to the grade ordered by the County Commissioners, which has 
settled since the last report, removing the earth where it has slid into 
the gutter from slopes in the sides of some of the cuts, placing some 
structure at the bridge on the marsh to prevent the washing away of the 
bank and wood at the bridge. These, with some slight repairs which 
may be rendered necessary by washing or otherwise, will probably cost 
five hundred dollars. The committee would earnestly recommend to the 
proprietors of land abutting on the new road, both of the part built 
under the direction of the Selectmen and the part built under their own 
direction, that, where it has not already been done, trees should be set 
out this spring on both sides of the road from the end of the Mill Dam 
to the line of the town of Brighton, as they serve both as a grateful 
shade to man and beast who have occasion to travel the road during the 
heat of summer, and objects of ornament to the way and beauty to the taste 
at all seasons of the year. And though all who may [act] on this recom- 
mendation of the committee, and place ornamental and shade trees by the 
wayside, may not themselves live to enjoy a walk or drive along this 



390 • Brookline Town Records. 

broad avenue when the trees which they have planted shall have spread 
their leafy branches o'er the traveler's head, yet they may take to them- 
selves the happy reflection that a grateful posterity Avill owe to them also 
a part of the grateful honour, thanks and blessings with which this com- 
mittee and the friends of the road have been so liberally and even 
profusely overwhelmed by our intelligent, publick-spirited and appreciat- 
ing community. 

The amount of money received and expended thus far Avill appear by 
the following account : 

Receipts. 
On town note, as per report of the Auditing Committee . $11,000 00 
Subscriptions of the Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam Company 2,000 — 
Individual subscriptions, viz. : Win. Amory, $200 ; Augustus 
Asp in wall, William L. Beal, David S. Coolidge, William 
J. Griggs, Henry Lee, Jr., J. Lee's est., and Moses With- 
ington, $100 each; George Babcock, George E. Bogman. 
Timothy Corey, James Dana, Harrison Fay, Samuel 
Laniard, Daniel Sanderson and M. C. Warren, $50 each, 
and Harrison Bird $25 — in all 1,325 - 

Expenditures. 

Paid Asa G. Sheldon, as per Auditors' report 

Charles Stearns, for gravel and trees and expenses of his 
claim therefor, paid by special committee appointed to 
settle with him (see Auditors' report) .... 

E. M. Abbott, for fencing materials, building fence, &c. 

To J. Doane, for engineering 

" David Sears, for gravel 

W. R. Lawrence, for earth for filling across marsh 

Boston & Worcester R. R. Co., for sign at crossing and 
stone posts 

Calvin Smith, for grading and materials for road 

Luther Drew, for building bridge over marsh, Ac. 

John McMahan, casting and labor 

William O'Donneli, for stones for monuments 

Sundry small bills, viz. : Ostrander & Schoppe, for 
dinners on the day the Commissioners located the 
road $3 00 

Ezra Sampson 2 00 

For printed proposals 1 50 

" posting proposals 2 00 

" Thomas Griggs, labor setting monuments . 2 07 10 57 

Total expenditures $13,110 00 



$14,325 


(Ml 


8,779 


30 


1,316 


37 


1,430 


00 


325 


00 


321 


20 


300 


00 


206 


55 


195 


46 


185 


00 


28 


00 


12 


55 



Balance $1,215 00 

George Griggs, 
'Brookline, March 8th, 1852. Chairman Committee. 

Voted, To ciccept the report. (File G, No. 7.) 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. . 391 

Mr. David S. Coolidge presented the report of the Com- 
mittee on School Houses appointed October 15th, 1851, as 
follows : 

REPOKT. 

The committee appointed under the foregoing vote of the town (see 
p. 374) respectfully report : 

First. The committee are requested to select sites for two new school- 
houses, the one to be located on Harvard street not far from School 
street, the other somewhere near the corner of Warren and Clyde streets. 
The committee state that they cannot obtain any suitable sites for school 
houses at the points named. 

Second. The committee are required to obtain [terms] on which the 
school house and lot on Heath street can be sold, but being unable to obtain a 
new site in this section of the town, the committee have made no 
attempts to obtain terms for the sale of the present house and lot. 

Third, Your committee are not prepared with any plans or estimates, 
but having deliberated on the subject in concert with the School Com- 
mittee, they are of opinion that a suitable building could be erected on 
the town's land at an expense not exceeding ten thousand dollars 
(.$10,000). In order to bring the subject before the town in a definite 
form, the committee submit for consideration the following resolves : 

Voted, That a Building Committee of five be appointed to erect, on the 
town's land on School street, a school house according to such plans as 
they may adopt, at an expense not exceeding ten thousand dollars, within 
such time as they think the interest of the town requires, and that they 
appropriate not less than one acre for the school-house lot. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the town be authorized to borrow the 
sum of ten thousand dollars, in such sums and at such times as said com- 
mittee may require for building said house. 

l). S. Coolidge, 
Wm. Dwight, 
Abijah W. Goddakd, 
G. F. Homes, 

Committee. 



Voted, To accept the report. (File G, No. 8.) 

Voted, That the resolves of the Committee on School 
Houses be laid on the table. (For resolves see pp. [above].) 

Voted, That the report of the School Committee, which 
had been printed and distributed to the inhabitants, be 
accepted. (File G, No. 9.) 

The meeting then proceeded to the choice of Selectmen 
by ballot. The whole number of ballots for Selectmen was 
one hundred and twenty-three (123). Necessary to a choice, 
sixty-two. 



392 Brookline Town Records. 

Jerathmael Davenport had one hundred and twelve, 

William Dearborn " one hundred and four, 

David S. Coolidge " eighty-seven, and they were 

chosen Selectmen for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose three Assessors. 

The whole number of ballots was one hundred and nine 
(109). Necessary to a choice, fifty-five (55). 

W. I. Bowditch had one hundred and two, 

A. H. Newell " one hundred and one, 

W. A. Humphrey " one hundred and six, and they were 
chosen Assessors. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be Overseers of the Poor. 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of Town Treasurer. 

The whole number of ballots was one hundred and forty- 
one. Necessary to a choice, seventy-one. 

D. S. Coolidge had one. 

Elijah Hersey " three. 

Artemas Newell " twenty- four. 

J. Davenport " twenty-eight. 

Moses Withington " eighty-five, and was chosen Treas- 
urer. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector of Taxes. 

Voted, To choose a School Committee of five. 

Whole number of ballots was one hundred and eight. 

Rev. W. H. Shailer had sixty-one, 

Mr. Samuel Eliot " eighty-four, 

Col. J. K. F. Mansfield " ninet}^-three, 

Mr. William Dwight, " ninety-two, 

Mr. J. A. Bird " fifty-seven, and they were 

chosen School Committee. 

Voted, To have four Constables for the ensuing year. 

Whole number of ballots was one hundred and thirty-four. 

Augustus Allen had one hundred and seventeen, 

H. M. Sanborn " one hundred and thirty-four, 

Franklin Tukey " one hundred and eighty-one, 

Elisha Stone " one hundred and ninety-three, and 

they were chosen Constables. 

Voted, To choose three Surveyors of Highways by ballot. 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 393 

Whole number of ballots was sixty-seven. 

Chas. Stearns, Jr., had thirty-nine, 

William Dearborn " forty-one, 

Abijah W. Goddard " forty-one, and they were chosen 
Surveyors of Highways. 

The Fourth Article was taken up, and the polls were opened 
to receive the ballots for County Treasurer. The polls 
being closed, the whole number ot ballots was one hundred 
and twenty-one. 

A. H. Clapp had three. 

Elbridge G. Robinson " twenty-seven. 

George Ellis " ninety-one. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythinginan. 

Voted, To choose ten Field Drivers. 

Timothy Corey, Chas. P. Trowbridge, F. Henry Corey, 
T. B. Griggs, John W. Warren, D. Augustus Griggs, 
George Hersey, Henry A. Mellen, Samuel Clark, Chas. D. 
Head — Field Drivers. 

Clark L. Haynes, Chas. G. Colbath, were chosen Fence 
Viewers. 

John F. Edwards, Elisha Stone, were chosen Surveyors of 
Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark. 

Voted, Not to choose Sealer of Leather. 

Augustus Allen, B. F. Baker, J. Anson Guild, were 
chosen Fire Wards. 

Chas. D. Head, W. I. Bowditch, C. W. Scudder, were 
chosen Auditors. 

Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., North District ; W.A.Humphrey, 
Middle District ; Samuel Hills, South District, were chosen 
Prudential School Committee. 

Jesse Bird, Marshal Stearns, Samuel Philbrick, were 
chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Clark L. Haynes was chosen Prudential School Commit- 
tee for Intermediate and High Schools. 

In voting for all officers chosen by ballot the check-list 
was used. 



394 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be to Monday, 
the 22 inst., at 3 o'clock p. m. 

On motion of Mr. Wm. Dwight, it was — 

Voted, That at all town meetings for the choice of town 
or county officers, such as are chosen by ballot shall here- 
after be voted for on one ticket. (File G, No. 10.) 

Adjourned. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



The Town Clerk, on the evening of the eighth day of 
March, 1852, in conformity with the law of the Common- 
wealth, made out his warrant and delivered the same to 
Constable Franklin Tukey, requiring him to summon all 
officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within seven 
days and be sworn to their respective offices (where an oath 
is required by law) or to signify their acceptance or refusal 
of the office to which they were respectively chosen — and is 
on File G, No. 11. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Annual Meeting, March 8, 1852. 395 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared the undermentioned persons 
and were sworn before me at the times set against their 
names, or signified their refusal or acceptance of the offices 
to which they had severally been chosen. 

B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 

8 of March, 1852. Franklin Tukey sworn as Constable. 

9 " " Hugh M. Sanborn '• " " 

10 " J. K. F. Mansfield ac'pt School Committee. 

" " J. F. Edwards sworn Surveyor of Lumber and Meas- 

urer of Wood and Hark. 
" " J. W". Warren sworn Field Driver. 

" " Jesse Bird declined Cemetery Committee. 

" " " W. A. Humphrey " Prudential School Committee, 

Middle District. 
" Marshall Stearns declined Cemetery Committee. 

11 " " Geor. E. Hersey sworn Field Driver. 

13 " " Augustus Allen accept Fire Ward and sworn as Con- 

stable. 

" " " B. F. Baker accept Fire Ward. 

" " " .). Anson Guild " " " 

13 " Moses WithingtOD sworn Treasurer and Collector. 

C. P. Trowbridge •' Field Driver. 

" •' " D. Augustus Griggs " " " 

" " " Henry A. Mellen " " " 

'• Clark L. Haynes " Fence Viewer, accepted 

Prudential S. Committee for the High School and 
[ntermediate School. 

J) ■• " William D wight declined School Committee. 

15 " " J. A. Bird accepted 

16 " " Samuel Eliot " " " 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared the undermentioned persons 
and were sworn before me, or signified their acceptance or 
refusal of the offices to which they were chosen, at the time 
set against their names. 

B. f. baker, 

Toivn Clerk. 

15 March, 1852. Chas. D. Head accepted Auditor. 
" " " Chas. W. Scudder " 

" " " F. Henry Corey declined Field Driver. 

19 " " Samuel Hills accepted Prudential Sc'l Committee for 

South District. 
22 " " Elisha Stoue sworn as Constable, Surveyor Lumber and 

Measurer Wood and Bark. 

20 " " W. H. Shailer declined School Committee. 
22 " " Andrew H. Newell sworn Assessor. 



396 Brookline Town Records. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 22, 1852. 

Pursuant to adjournment on the eighth day of March, the 
inhabitants of the town met in the Town Hall on Monday, 
the twenty-second day of March, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at three o'clock in 
the afternoon. 

The Moderator called the meeting to order, and read a 
list of the officers that had not qualified themselves or who 
had declined serving;. The folio wins-named officers, who 

O ^ 7 

had not been qualified, then came forward and were sworn 
to discharge the duties of their several offices by the Mod- 
erator, Geor. F. Homer, Esq. : 

Jerathmael Davenport, William Dearborn, David S. Cool- 
idge, were sworn as Selectmen for the year ensuing. 

W. I. Bowditch and Willard A. Humphrey were sworn as 
Assessors for the ensuing year. 

Chas. Stearns, Jr., and William Dearborn were sworn as 
Surveyors of Highways for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose three Cemetery Committee in place of 
Jesse Bird, Marshall Stearns, and Samuel Philbrick, Esq., 
resigned. 

Samuel Clark, H. M. Sanborn, Dr. Samuel Shurtleff, 
were chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Voted, To ballot for two School Committee (to fill the 
places made vacant in the board by the declining to serve of 
Messrs. Rev. William H. Shailer and William Dwight, Esq.) 
at 20 minutes past three o'clock. 

Hugh M. Sanborn was chosen Pound Keeper (in place of 
Charles Smith, declined,) and was sworn by the Town 
Clerk to the discharge of the duties of that office. 

The ballots for School Committee being called for, the 
whole number of ballots was thirty-six. Necessary to a 
choice, nineteen. 

Moses B. Williams had thirty-two (32), 

G. F. Homer " thirty-four, and they were chosen, 

and accepted the trust. 



Adjourned Animal Meeting, March 22, 1852. 397 

Mr. Jesse Bird was chosen Highway Surveyor (in place 
of A. W. Goddard, declined,) and was sworn to the dis- 
charge of the duties of that office by the Moderator. 

John W. Warren was chosen Prudential School Commit- 
tee (in place of W. A. Humphrey, resigned,) for the Middle 
District, and accepted the trust. 

On motion of Mr. James M. Howe, the following vote of 
thanks was unanimously passed to Mr. James Bartlett : 

Voted, That the thanks of the town of Brookline be pre- 
sented to James Bartlett, Esq., for the able, faithful, and 
impartial manner in which he has performed the duties of 
Chairman of the Selectmen of the town for several years 
past. 

Voted, That the Town Clerk transmit a copy of the vote 
to Mr. James Bartlett. 

Voted, To take up the Fifth Article in the warrant. 

Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the 
ensuing year, to wit : 

For the support of the poor $1,200 00 

" " " schools 4,100 00 

books of reference for schools 25 00 

support of highways 1,300 00 

making roads by Town House, widening School street, 

and land damages 500 00 

making and fencing new county road west from Wash- 
ington street . 20 00 

making extension of same road to Mill Dam . . . 800 00 

expense of defending lawsuit bro't by Asa G. Sheldon . 500 00 

County tax 4,500 00 

Fire Department 500 00 

rewards for the arrest of incendiaries, none . . . 

collecting taxes 150 00 

abatement of taxes 250 00 

town officers 800 00 

repairs of public buildings 200 00 

extinction of town debt 2,163 76 

interest on town debt 840 00 

Cemetery C 50 00 

contingencies ......... 900 00 

to pay the expenses incurred by the Committee on R. R. 

Crossing at Grade in Town of Brookline . . . 293 88 
damage done Thomas Seaverns by removing the earth 
and gravel adjoining his land (see report of D. San- 
derson, recorded on [399] p.) 60 00 

$19,152 64 



398 Broohline Toivn Records. 

Voted, on motion of Mr. William Aspinwall, That the 
monies appropriated by the town for various purposes, 
including the appropriations for the purpose of making and 
repairing highways and town waj^s, be assessed, after 
deducting the balance in the Treasury and the probable 
receipts for the ensuing year, amounting by the Auditors' 
report to the sum of $2,200.76, upon the polls and estates, 
real and personal, of the inhabitants resident and non-resi- 
dent of the town, and collected as the town charges are 
usually assessed and collected. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the 
sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) in anticipation of 
taxes to be raised and received. 

The Resolves and Votes of the Committee on School 
Houses were taken up and adopted. (See pp. [391].) 

Voted, That a Building Committee of five be appointed 
to erect, on the town's land on School street, a school-house 
according to such plan as they may adopt, at an expense not 
exceeding ten thousand dollars, within such time as they 
think the interests of the town require, and that they 
appropriate not less than one acre of land for the school- 
house lot. 

Voted, That Messrs. Harrison Fay, J. K. F. Mansfield, 
Chas. Heath, William Dearborn, Bela Stoddard, be a Build- 
ing Committee to attend to that duty. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the town be authorized to 
borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars in such sums and at 
such times as said committee may require for building said 
house. 

On motion of George Griggs, Esqr., it was — 

Voted, That any claim which may be made by the guard- 
ian of any child of George Aspinwall, deceased, on George 
Griggs, administrator with the will annexed of Thomas 
Aspinwall, deceased, for money paid by him to William C. 
Aspinwall and [by] said William paid into the town treasury 
for his support, be referred to the Selectmen, with authority 
to pay the same from the contingent fund of the town. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 22, 1852. 399 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the introduction of music 
into the schools of the town. 

Voted, To add to the contingent fund the further sum of 
fifty dollars ($50), and that Ditson's bill for piano be paid 
therefrom, thus making the contingent fund $900.00. (See 
appropriations, p. [397].) 

Mr. Daniel Sanderson presented the following report : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed in June last by the town, for the purpose of 
investigating the claims of Thomas Seaverns, in relation to damages 
done to his land in consequence of the removal of gravel and change of 
grade in the new way or street laid out from Washington street to 
Mechanic place, report that, in our opinion, Mr. Seaverns is entitled to 
further compensation in addition to the award of the Selectmen, however 
just and proper that award may have been at the time it was made. 
Since that time the grade has been very much altered, so that the bank 
on the land next to Mr. Seaverns has fallen down, and the fence has also 
fallen with it. It would also be difficult to construct a convenient 
passageway from Mechanic place to the house and stable of Mr. Seaverns 
without removing a large quantity of the gravel that still remains. In 
view of all the facts in the case, your committee recommend that the 
town appropriate the sum of sixty dollars ($G0) as a further compen-a- 
tion in addition to the award made by the Selectmen. 

File G, No. 12, Daniel Sanderson, 

For the Committee. 

Voted, To accept the report and appropriate the sum of 
, as recommended. (See appropriations, on [397] p.) 
Voted, To dissolve this meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk of Broohline. 



400 Brookline Town Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 5th, 1852. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, 
qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their votes to the 
Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said town, for one Special 
Commissioner, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna- 
tion of Timothy P. Whitney, one of the Special Commis- 
sioners of said County, for the remainder of the term for 
which the said Timothy P. Whitney was elected, on Monday, 
the fifth day of April next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, 
at which time and place the polls will be opened. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 

twenty-second of March, in the year of our Lord one 

thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 

J. Davenport, 

William Dearborn, 

David S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

• 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 30th, 1852. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified each voter to meet at the 
■within-named place, by leaving a printed copy of this warrant at his 

place of residence. (File G, No. 13.) 

Franklin Tukey, 

Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the meeting was called 
to order at three o'clock and ten minutes, by Jerathmael 



Special Meeting, May 3, 1852. 401 

Davenport, Esq., Chairman of the Selectmen, and the polls 
were declared open for the reception of ballots for Special 
Commissioner. 

The polls being declared closed after having been kept 
open two hours, the whole number of ballots cast was 
twelve (12). 

John A. Gould of Walpole had eight (8). 

Henry Hobart of Foxboro " four (4). 

J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
David S. Coolidge, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 
Voted, To dissolve. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Cleric. 



SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 3, A. D. 1852. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, 
qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their votes to the 
Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said town, for one Special 
Commissioner, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna- 
tion of Timothy P. Whitney, one of the Special Commis- 
sioners of said County, for the remainder of the term for 
which the said Timothy P. Whitney was elected, on Monday, 



402 BrooMine Town Records. 

the third day of May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, 
at which time and place the polls will be opened : the 
election held on the fifth day of April, A. D. 1852, for said 
purpose, having resulted in no choice. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twenty-second da} r of April, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 

J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
David S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, May 3d, 1852. 

Pursuant to the Avithin warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline within described, to meet at the time and place 
and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at 
their dwellings in said Brookline. (File G, No. 14.) 

Elisha Stone, 
Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the meeting was opened 
at three o'clock by J. Davenport, Chairman of the Select- 
men, and the polls declared opened for Special Commis- 
sioner. 

The polls having remained open two hours, they were 
declared closed, when the whole number of ballots was 
found 'to be eight. 

John A. Gould of Walpole had seven (7). 

E. L. Keyes of Dedham had one (1). 

J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
David S. Coolidge, 
Selectmen of BrooMine. 
Voted, To dissolve. 

Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Cleric, 



Special Meeting, May 20, 1852. 403 



SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 20, 1852. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of 'Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said 
town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said town, on Thursday, the twentieth day of Ma} r , 
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at 
four o'clock in the aftevnoon, for the following purposes, 
to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow 
money and give the note of the town for the amount due to Asa G. 
Sheldon for the construction of the new road from the end of the Mill 
Dam to "Washington street. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 

your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twelfth 

day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 

fifty-two. 

J. Davenport, 
"William Dearborn, 
David S. Coolidge, 
/Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, May 18th, 1852. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the time and place 
and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at 
the dwellings of the same. 

(File G, 15.) Elisiia Stone. 

Constable of Brookline. 



404 Brookline Town Records. 

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the meeting was called 
to order by J. Davenport, Esq., Chairman of the Selectmen, 
who read the warrant and return thereon, and, the Town 
Clerk not being present, requested the qualified voters 
present to bring in their written ballots for a Clerk pro 
tempore, which was accordingly done, and George F. Homer 
was declared to be duly elected Clerk pro tern., and was 
duly qualified by taking the oath required by law, before Dr. 
S. A. Shurtlelf, a Justice of the Peace. 

James Robinson was then, said Clerk presiding, unani- 
mously chosen Moderator of the meeting. 

The Second Article in the warrant being taken up, George 
F. Homer, Chairman of the Committee on Sheldon suit, 
made the following report, which was accepted : 

HEPORT. 

The committee on the subject of the ^uit of Asa G. Sheldon vs. the 
Inhabitants of BrooTdine, respectfully report : That on the twenty- 
seventh day of April the referees awarded, as due from the town of 
Brookline to said Sheldon, the sum of thirty-four hundred and ninety- 
five dollars and seventy-two cents ($ 3-195. 72), with interest thereon from 
October 15th last, and that the costs should be paid by the town, who 
are to be allowed one-third thereof by Sheldon on the final settlement. 
These costs are as follows : 

Referees' fees 

Plaintiff's cost, witnesses, &c. 

Harris & Doane, re-survey by order of the Referees 
Court'groom, copies, &c. ....... 

Omnibus for Referees 

Total $283 41 

—which has been paid by your committee, and one-third thereof, viz. . 
ninety-four dollars and forty-seven cents, is to be deducted from the 
above mentioned sum awarded, as due from the town of Brookline to 
Asa G. Sheldon. Your committee were instructed by the town to resist 
the claim of Mr. Sheldon, and the sum of five hundred dollars was appro- 
priated to aid them in defending this suit. They have expended for this 
object the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine 75-100 dollars ($179.75) 
for counsel fees, the assistance of the engineer, and for sundry expenses, 
so that the appropriation is more than sufficient to pay all the expenses of 
the litigation — leaving a balance in the town treasury of thirty-six 84-100 
dols. ($3G.84). Your committee are not aware of any outstanding bills 
in this case, although there may be some trifling charges to be adjusted 
hereafter. 



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Special Meeting, May 20, 1852. 405 

There is uo term at present, in Middlesex Count}-, of the Supreme 
Judicial Court ; the next term thereof being holden on the 19th day of 
October next. The award has been opened and filed in Court, and the 
amount due to Mr. Sheldon thereunder can be safely paid now. -which your 
committee recommend to be done at once. On the 22nd day of May, inst., 
being Saturday of the present week, the amount due Sheldon under the 
•award, with interest from October 15th, 1851, will be three thousand six 
hundred and twenty-two dols. and 14-100($3,G22.14) ; from which sum is to 
be deducted one-third part of the costs, viz., $94.47 ; leaving a balance to 
be paid Sheldon of thirty-five hundred and twenty-seven G7-100 dollars 
($3,527.67). 

Your committee, on the general subject of this suit, would add that 
although the award in favor of Sheldon was more than, in their opinion. 
was justly his clue, yet they consider the result, on the whole, favorable 
to the town, and very much more reasonable than the verdict of a Mid- 
dlesex jury. Sheldon claimed of the town over $10,000.00, and his 
lowest offer of settlement was over $6,200.00, which the result of this 
abitration reduced more than $2,300.00. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

G. F. Homer, 
Sam'l Philbrick, 
J. Davenport, 

Brookline, May 20th, 1852. James Robinson, 

(File G, 16. | Committee. 

The following votes were then unanimously adopted : 
Voted, That the town hereby accept the award of the 
Referees in the case of Asa G. Sheldon vs. the Town, now 
pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of 
Middlesex, and do appropriate a sum of money sufficient to 
pay the sum due to said Sheldon under the same. 

Voted, That for this purpose the Treasurer of the town 
is authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding thirty-five 
hundred dollars, and that he give the promissory note of the 
town therefor, payable at such time, not exceeding five 
years, as may be agreed upon, with interest not exceeding 
six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. 
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved. 

Attest : GEO. F. HOMER, 

Town Clerk pro tern. 



406 



Brookline lown Records. 



List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1852. 



Francis Caverly 
Charles White 
John Gustin 
Albert Clark 
Edward D. Sohier 
Levi Barnard 
William Stearns 
David Sears, Jr. 
Maturin Ballon 
Chas. W. Cottin 
Thomas B . Hall 
Samuel Lyford 
Amos A. Lawrence 
Cyrus Hayes 
Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
Francis H. Coolidge 
Charles Sim 
David H. Daniels 
Simeon Taylor 
Ginery Twitchell 
Crighton Buggies 
Cyrus W. Buggies 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 
David T. Kenrick 
Chas. L. Palmer 
James Morse 
Chas. Snicle 
George Prouty 
Moses Corson 
Alex. H. Clapp 
Clark S. Bixby 
Abijah C. Stone 
Nathaniel W. Brackett 
Alvin A. Bice 
Charles Brackett 
J. Anson Guild 
George W. Butters 
Andrew McKenney 

Dwight 

Sylvester Kimball 
Thomas Edgar 
Wm. K. Melcher 
Boyal Woodward 
Augustus Allen 
John Aspinwall 
Joseph Ferguson 



Henry Coburn 
James W. Coolidge 
Charles Whittemore 
Andrew J. Harrington 
William J. Griggs 
Moses Day 
Charles Coolidge 
James Hobbs 
William T. Bramhall 
Bichard McDonald 
Robert Littell 
Edward S. Dane 
Benj. F. Dane 
William Aspinwall 
William Perry 
Asbury Longley 
Oliver Cousens 
Edwin Field 
Charles Caldwell 
Caleb W. Johnson 
George A. Holland 
Horace James 
William E. Eloot 
Allen Pierce 
John H. Webber 
Amos Snow 
F. F. Pratt 
Isaac H. Porter 
Hamlet Wood 
James Woodworth 
Henry Hitchcock 
Martin Williams 
Josiah M. Bussell 
Elijah C. Emerson 
George E. Carlton 
George W. Minns 
George W. Patten 
S. Augustus Thayer 
Robert S. Davis 
Elisha Jacobs 
Augustus W. Seamans 
Charles W. Tolman 
George B. Blake 
Gardner H. Bathorn 
George W. Atkinson 
Stephen Allen 
Phillip Allen 



Ferdinand Delis Den ere Moses Withington 
Charles F. Foster Thomas II. Bacon 



B. F. Baker 
George F. Homer 
Daniel H. Rogers 
Charles Burrill 
Charles W. Scudder 
John N. Turner 
AVilliam A. Lacld 
William I. Bowditch 
William O. Churchill 
T. Henry Perkins 
William H. Jameson 
Thomas Seaverns 
George Stoddard 
Oliver Whyte 
Edward R. Seccomb 
1). Augustus Griggs 
Isaac Taylor 
Henry A. Mellen 
F. Henry Corey 
Jeremiah Shun' 
Daniel Shun' 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin D. Crawford 
Daniel Hall 
George T. Bartlett 
James Robinson 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Willard Jackson 
Stephen Foss 
Theophilus P. Chandler 
Thomas Lee 
Alex. C. Studley 
Jotham C. Sanborn 
Bansom N. Weld 
Colin Baker 
Albert W. Smith 
Benj. W. Hobart 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
Alverda Mason 
Joseph B. Smead 
Franklin Tukey 
James Sinclare 
Wilder II. C. Dorain 
John Harris 
Peter W. Pierce 
Harvey James 
Benj. F. Stephenson 
Chas. Smith 



Militia List, 1852. 



407 



Ephraim Church 
William W. Clement 
' Thos. S. Pettingale 
George S. Gushing 
George Tyler 
Charles Pope 
William Pope 
John F. Edwards 
Howard Edwards 
George N. Dana 
Edw. A. Dana 
Charles B. Dana 
Fredr'k J. Williams 
Horatio Leavitt 
Thomas H. Leavitt 
Edward C. Wilson 
Elijah Hersey 
Samuel G. Glover 
James W. Merriam 
AVilliam E. Lawrence 
George E. Hersey 
Nathaniel Lyi'ord 
George A. Gardner 
Oliver B. Delano 
Samuel B. Little 
Joseph T. Little 
Jonathan D. Long 
Howard S. Williams 
Hezekiah Shailer 
John A. Bird 
Alfred Winsor 
Henry W. Can- 
Em er son Leland 
James M. Richardson 
George P. Richardson 
Abraham EL Lambert 
George Griggs 
Charles D. Head 
Benjamin Leeds 
Benjamin Leeds, Jr. 
George J. Perry 
John Bartlett 
John W. Blanchard 
Thomas B. Cowan 
Stephen Smith 
(File G, 17.) 

List of Soldiers ir 
according to law. 



Josiah Bacon 
Andrew II. Xewell 
Moses Stone 
Chas. 0. Howe 
Benj. F. Gerry 
Aaron Whitney 
Geo. R. Phelps 
P. T. Gillett 
Hugh M. Sanborn 
Ansel Waterman 
John Reynolds 
George Hancock 
Francis K. Fisher 
John Jackman 
John H. Henshaw 
William Macomb 
Solomon Severry 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
Cyrus Thompson 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
Willard A. Humphrey 
John II. Shumaker 
Ira T. Bean 
David B. Humphrey 
Eliphalet Faruum 
Willard J. Humphrey 



Eli D. Sanderson 
George Penniman 
Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
Eben W. Reed 
Nathiel Winter 
Elisha T. Penniman 
Wm. Bird 
Clark L. Haynes 
A. L. Cutler 
Daniel S. Kendall 
Albert A. Cobb 
John Colby 
Win. B. Dean 
Charles Warren 
William B. Town 
Eben Wright 
William II. Slocum 
Moses B. Williams 
.John Gilman 
Lafayette Thayer 
Benjamin F. Kendall 
Samuel Clark 
Benjamin W. Clark 
George J. Fisher 
Nathaniel G. Chapin 
George Bacon 



Thaddeus J. Townsend James M. Howe 



Abel B. Milliken 
William P. Atkinson 
Henry Whitney 
Joshua B. Clark 
Thomas Parsons 
Henry Weeks 
Samuel Eliot 
Everett Colburn 
James Houghton 
Edward Berry 
Wm. F. Weld 
Seth Anderson 
Edward Atkinson 
James S. Young 
William Wharton 
John L. Sheriff 
John E. Sanborn 



George Hill 
John H. Trowbridge 
Alvin Loker 
Chas. E. Eliott 
William J. Hyde 
Samuel D. Hill 
Hiram R. Beau 
George White 
John Townsend 
Nathaniel P. Johnson 
Simon W. Clifford 
Caleb Craft, Jr. 
Geo. W. Goodnough 
Xanthus Goodnough 
Chas. G. Colbath 
George Crafts 
Charles Craft 



Recorded and returned 



Total, 282 

Brookline. taken May, 1852. by the Assessors, 
Wm. I. Bowpitch, b.'t 

Chairman of the Assessors. 
Recorded and returned June 14th, 1852. 

B. F. Bakeb, Town Clerk. 



408 BrooMine Town Records. 

Brooklixe, August 31st, 1852. 
Whereas, Benjamin F. Baker, Town Clerk of BrooMine, duly elected 
at the annual meeting of the inhabitants of said town, on the eighth day 
of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, is now 
absent from said town, and is thereby prevented from performing the 
duties of said office, we, the Selectmen of said BrooMine, do hereby 
appoint George F. Homer of said BrooMine to be Town Clerk pro tempore 
during such absence of said Baker, to do and perform all the duties of 
said office. 

Witness our hands and seals, this thirty-first day of August, in the year 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty -two. 

J. Davenport. [l.s.] 

William Dearborn, [l.s.] 
D. S. Coolidge. [l.s.] 

Commonwealth or Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 31st August, 1852. 

Then personally appeared Geo. F. Homer and made oath that he would 
faithfully perform and discharge the duties incumbent on him as Clerk 
of the town of BrooMine during the absence of B. F. Baker. (File G, 18.) 



SPECIAL MEETING, OCTOBER 14, 1852. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

To the Constables of the Town of BrooMine, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said town, on Thursday, the fourteenth day 
of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty-two, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following 
purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To act upon a letter received from the Hon. Samuel P. Loud, 
in relation to a certiorari prayed for by Boston & Worcester Railroad 
Corporation against the County Commissioners, for the purpose of com- 



Special Meeting, October 14, 1852. 409 

pelling the Count} - of Norfolk or the town of Brookline to erect a bridge 
over that portion of the new county road called Beacon street, which 
now crosses the Worcester Railroad upon a level therewith. 

Third, To see if the town will remunerate Charles Stearns for damage 
to his land not taken by the Commissioners in building the new road. 

Fourth, To choose two persons to fill the vacancies in the Cemetery 
Committee. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this fourth 
day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-two. 

J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
D. S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookxtne, October 8th, A. D. 1852. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the within-named 
persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within men- 
tioned, by leaving a printed notice at the duelling house of the same. 

(File (.. 19. Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brooklim . 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants met 
at the Town Hall on Thursday, October the fourteenth, at 
three o'clock in the afternoon, and were called to order by 
the Town Clerk at ten minutes past three o'clock, who then 
read the warrant and return. 

G. F. Homer, Esq., was then chosen Moderator. 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and 
the following action had upon it : 

Voted, To choose a committee of three to consider and 
act upon the subject, with power to employ counsel and do 
as in their judgment the interests of the town demand. 

Voted, That G. F. Homer, William Aspinwall and Samuel 
Philbrick be such committee. 

Voted, That the Third Article be indefinitely postponed. 

Article Fourth was taken up, and it was — 

Voted, To fill the vacancies in the Cemeteiy Committee 
by ballot, 



410 Brookline Town Records. 

— which resulted in the choice of Jesse Bird and Samuel 
Philbrick, Esqrs. The whole number of ballots was thir- 
teen. Jesse Bird had 13, Samuel Philbrick had 12, and 
were delared elected, and they accepted the trust. 
Voted, To adjourn sine die. 
Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



NOVEMBER ELECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL 
ELECTORS, NOV. 2, A. D. 1852. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of BrooMine, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the second day of 
November next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which 
time and place the polls will be opened, and kept open not 
less than two hours, then and there to give in their ballots 
for thirteen Electors of President and Vice President of the 
United States, each ballot for such Elector to contain the 
name of at least one inhabitant of each Congressional District 
of this Commonwealth, — all to be voted for on one ballot. 
You are also hereby directed to notify and warn the said 
inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in 
elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on the 
second Monday of November next, being the eighth day of 



Presidential Election, November 2, 1852. 411 

said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time 
and place the polls will be opened, and kept open not less 
than two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : — 

First. To determine whether the town will send a Representative to 
the next General Court. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit : For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- 
monwealth ; for three Senators from this County ; a Representative 
to the Thirty-Third Congress of the United States from the Fourth 
District; and Representative to the next General Court, if the town 
determine to send one, — all to be voted for on one ballot. 

Third. To give in their ballots on the question — Is it expedient that 
delegates should be chosen to meet in convention for the purpose of 
revising the Constitution of Government of this Commonwealth? 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals this twenty-second day of 
October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
two. 

J. DAVENrORT, 

Wm. Dearborn, 
d. s. coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, October 28th, 1852. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the time aud place for 
the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the dwelling 
place of the same. 

(File G, 20.) Elisiia Stone, 

Constable of Brooliine. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the polls were opened 
by the Selectmen, on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 
the second, A. D. 1852, at one o'clock, and were kept open 
two hours, when, on motion of William Aspinwall, Esq., it 
was voted to keep them open until five o'clock and thirty 
minutes past, when they were declared, by Jerathmael Daven- 
port, Chairman of the Selectmen, to be closed. The Select- 
men then counted the envelopes and found the whole number 



412 Brookline Town Records. 

to be two hundred and eighty-one. The votes were counted 
by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and the result was as 
follows, to wit : 

The whole number of ballots in was two hundred and 
eighty, and one blank, and the whole number "of votes given 
were received, sorted, counted and declared, and record 
thereof made in open town meeting as by law directed, and 
said votes were as follows, viz. : 

For Electors at Large. 
Robert C. Wiuthrop of Boston had one hundred fifty-five (155). 
George Bliss of Springfield " one hundred and fifty-five (155). 

Charles G. Green of Boston " seventy-five (75). 

James S. Whitney of Conway " seventy-six (76). 
Stephen C. Phillips of Salem " forty-seven (47). 
James Fowler of Westfield " forty-seven (47). 

James Fowler " one (1). 

Pliny Cutler of Boston " two (2). 

Edward A. Newton of Pittsfield " two (2). 

For Electors in District No. One. 
J. H. W. Page of New Bedford had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
S. B. Phiuney of Barnstable " seventy-six (76). 

John N. Shaw of Nantucket " forty-seven (47). 

Isaiah Giftbrd " Provincetown " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Two. 
George A. Crocker of Taunton had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
Edward Cazneau " Hingham " seventy-six (76). 
William H. Wood " Middletou " forty-seven (47). 
Lemuel May " Attleboro " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Three. 
John Gardner of Dedham had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
Caleb Stetson " Braintree " seventy-six (76). 
Edward L. Keyes " Dedham " forty-seven (47 i. 
Frederick W. Lincoln of Canton " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Four. 
Amos Lawrence of Boston had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
Isaac Adams " Boston " seventy-six (76). 

Timothy Gilbert " Boston " forty-seven (47). 
William Hayden " Boston " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Five. 
Robert G. Shaw of Boston had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
Benjamin F. Hallett " Boston " seventy-five (75.) 
John G. Palfrey " Cambridge" forty-seven (47). 
George T. Curtis " Boston " two (2). 



Presidential Election, November 2, 1852. 413 

For an Elector for District No. Six. 
Daniel C. Baker of Lynn had one hundred and fifty-five (155) . 

Jonathan Nayson " Ainesbury " seventy-six (76). 
John G. Whittier " Amesbury " forty-seven (47). 
MarkHealy • Lynn " two (2). 

For an Elector for District Xo. Seven. 
George Cogswell of Bradford had one hundred andjfifty-flve i L55), 
Eben H. Safford " Haverhill " seventy-six (76 | . 
Samuel E. Sewell " Stonehani " forty-seven (47 
Andrew H. Nelson " Woburn " two (2). 

For mi Elector for District No. Eight. 
Jacob Coggin of Tewksbnry had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 

Walter Fessenden " Townsend " seventy-six (7(>). 
John W. Greaves " Lowell " forty-seven (47). 

Henry B. Pier son " Harvard " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Nine. 
Ebenezer Torry of Fitchburg had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
J. S. C. Knowltou " Worcester " seventy-six (76). 
Charles Mason " Fitchbnrg " forty-seven (47). 

Alvin G. Underwood " Oxford " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Ten. 
Rufus Bnllock of Royalstone had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 

0. P. Ingraham " South Hadley " seventy-six (76). 

Rodolphus B.Hubbard " Sunderland " forty-seven (47). 
Homer Foote " Springfield " two (2). 

For an Elector for District No. Eleven. 
Ezekiel R. Colt of Pittsfield had one hundred and fifty-five (155). 
Jonathan E. Field of Stockbridge " seventy-six (76). 
Joel Hayden of Williamsburg " forty-seven (47). 
Luther Griffing, Richmond " two (2). 

The returns of the votes were then filled up, signed by the 
Selectmen and Town Clerk, and sealed up in open town 
meeting, and delivered to the Chairman of the Selectmen to 
forward to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

The meeting Avas then declared dissolved, by J. Davenport, 
Chairman of the Selectmen. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



414 Brookline Town Records. 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 8, 1852. 

In pursuance of the warrant copied on pages [410, 411], 
the inhabitants of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall on 
Monday, the eighth day of November, A. D. 1852, and 
were called to order at one o'clock precisely, by J. Daven- 
port, Chairman of the Selectmen of Brookline. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

The polls were then declared opened, when, on motion of 
G. F. Homer, Esq., it was — 

Voted, That the polls be kept open until half-past five of 
the clock, 

— at which time they were declared closed, and the Select- 
men counted the envelopes, and the whole number was three 
hundred and eighteen. And the whole number of ballots 
were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof 
made, as by the Constitution is directed, and said votes were 
for the following persons, viz. : 

The whole number of votes for Governor was three hundred and seven- 
teen. 
John H. Clifford of New Bedford had two hundred and fourteen. 
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox had forty-five. 
Horace Mann of Newton had fifty-five. 
Wendell Phillips of Boston had two. 
Jesse Bird of Brookline had one. 

The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor was three hundred 

and sixteen. 
Elisha Huntington of Lowell had one hundred and seventy-five. 
James D. Thompson of New Bedford had eighty-three. 
Amasa Walker of North Brookfield had fifty-four. 
Effingham L. Capron of Worcester had two. 
John A. Bird of Brookline had one. 
Thomas B. Hall of Brookline had one. 

The whole number of votes for Bepresentative to Congress from the 

Fourth District was three hundred and sixteen. 
Samuel H. Walley of Roxbury had two hundred and fifteen. 
Levi A. Dowley of Boston had fifty. 
Charles M. Ellis of Roxbury had fifty. 
Charles K. Whipple of Boston had one. 



General Election, November 8, 1852. 415 

The whole number of votes for Senators from this District was three 
hundred and fifteen. 

John J. Clark of Eoxbury had one hundred and seventy-eight. 
Calvin Fisher of Wrentham had two hundred and fourteen. 
John W. Loud of Weymouth had one hundred and seventy-six. 
Francis W. Bird of Walpole had ninety-one. 
Joseph W. Robertson of Quincy had ninety. 
James Bartlett of Brookline had ninety-live. 
Enos Talbot of Stoughton had forty-two. 
Ezra S. Conant of Randolph had forty-one. 
Ezra Wilkinson of Dedham had two. 

The whole number of votes on the question, " Is it expedient that dele- 
gates should lie chosen to meet in Convention for the purpose of 
altering the Constitution of Government of this Commonwealth?" 
two hundred and ninety. 5Teas, eighty-seven ; Xoes, twohundredand 
three. 

The whole number of votes for Representative to the General Court was 
three hundred and nine. Necessary to a choice, one hundred and 
fifty-five. 

William I. Bowditch hail one. 

George Atkinson " one. 

E. Littell •• one. 

John Dane " tw o. 

George Babcock " thirty-eight. 

James Robinson " forty. 

Abijah W. Goddard " forty-nine. 

Willard A. Humphrey " one hundred and seventy-seven, and was chosen 

Representative to the General Court. 



In the voting, a check-list of the voters' names was used, 
and no person was allowed to deposit his ballot until his 
name had been found upon the list and checked. (File G, 
No. 20£.) 

At this election a box was placed beside the ballot box, 
inscribed " One dime to the memory of Washington," to 
collect funds by voluntary contribution towards paying the 
expenses of the Washington Monument at the city of Wash- 
ington ; and it was found on examining the contents that the 
sum of twenty-six -j- 5 ^- dollars had been contributed. 

The business of the meeting having all been transacted, the 
returns of the several votes were then filled up, signed by 
the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and sealed up in open town 



416 Brookline Town Records. 

meeting and delivered to J. Davenport, Chairman of the 
Selectmen, to forward to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, then declared the 
meeting dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



MEETING FOR CHOICE OF DELEGATE TO STATE 
CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN THE STATE 
HOUSE IN BOSTON ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY 
OF MAY NEXT. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the seventh day of 
March next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at which time 
and place the polls will be opened, and kept open not less 
than two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To determine whether the town will send a delegate to the State 
Convention called to meet in the State House, in Boston, on the first 
Wednesday of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty - 
three, for the purpose of revising or altering the Constitution of this 
Commonwealth. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for one delegate, if 
the town determine to send one. 

You are also hereby directed to notify and warn the said 
inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in 



Choice of Delegate to Stale Convention. 4L7 

elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on the 
second Monday of March next, being the fourteenth day of 
said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls will be opened for the following purposes, 
to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To t choose the necessary town and county officers for the 
ensuing year, all to be voted for on one ticket. 

Third. To hear and act upon the reports of committees and town 
officers. 

Fourth. To see if the town will cause flag-stones to be laid across 
Washington street at the head of Washington place ; also, across Har- 
vard street, at the foot of School street. 

Fifth. To hear the report of a Committee on the subject of widening 
School street, and make appropriation for the same. 

Sixth. To act upon the petition of Charles Wild and others, to see if 
the town will call up a report of a committee on a new cemetery, which 
was indefinitely postponed at a former meeting, and act upon the same, 
and also make suitable appropriation for the same. 

Seventh. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
deemed necessary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing 
year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twenty- 
fourth day of February, in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-three. 

J. Davenport, 
William Dearborn, 
D. S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe. Mar. 1, 1853. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants 
of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
named, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their place of residence. 

(File G, No. 21.) Franklin Tukey, 

Constable of Brookline. 



In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said town, at 



418 Brookline Town Records. 

two o'clock on the afternoon of Monday, March the seventh, 
and were called to order by Jerathmael Davenport, Chair- 
man of the Selectmen, who read the warrant and return, and 
at twenty minutes past two o'clock the polls were opened, 
and they were kept open two hours, when, on motion that 
they be kept open ten minutes longer, which was accordingly 
done, they were finally closed at four o'clock and thirty 
minutes. 

The Selectmen then proceeded to count the votes, and the 
whole number was as follows : One hundred and eighty-one 
(181) ; necessary to a choice, ninety-one (91) ; and they 
were for the following named persons, viz. : John Howe, 
one (1) ; William Dwight, eight (8) ; James Bartlett, fifty- 
six (56) ; William Aspinwall, one hundred and sixteen 
(116), and he was accordingly declared elected Delegate to 
the Convention aforesaid, to be held in the State House in 
Boston on the first Wednesday of May next. 

In voting at this election a check-list was used, and no 
person was allowed to vote until his name was found and 
checked. (File G, No. 21 J.) 

The business of the meeting having all been transacted, 
the returns of the vote were then filled up, signed by the 
Selectmen and sealed up in open town meeting, and declara- 
tion thereof made by the Chairman, and were delivered to J. 
Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, to deposit in the 
office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, then declared 
the meeting dissolved. 

Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Annual Meeting, March 14, 1853. 419 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 14, 1853. 

In pursuance of the warrant recorded on page [416] 
the inhabitants of the town of Brookline met at the 
Town Hall in said town, on Monday, March the fourteenth, 
A. D. 1853, at one of the clock in the afternoon. At pre- 
cisely five minutes past one o'clock the Town Clerk called 
the meeting to order, and read the warrant calling the meet- 
ing, and presided during the choice of Moderator ; that being 
the first article in the warrant. 

The votes for Moderator being called for, the whole num- 
ber cast was thirty-six (36). Necessary for a choice, nine- 
teen (19). George F. Homer had thirty-six and was 
declared Moderator of the meeting. 

Mr. Homer declined serving, on account of illness, and 
was excused by the meeting. 

The polls were then opened for ballots for Moderator, and 
kept open three minutes, when they were declared closed. 
The result was, — whole number, thirty-eight (38) ; neces- 
sary for a choice, twenty (20). John Howe had thirty-eight 
(38), and was declared elected Moderator and took the chair. 
At the request of the Moderator, prayer was offered by 
the Rev. W. H. Shailer. 

The Second Article in the warrant coming up in order for 
action, it was — 

Voted, To lay Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the table. 
After some discussion, it was — 

Voted, That the vote whereby the town voted to vote for 
all town and county officers that are chosen by ballot be 
voted for on one ticket, be repealed. 

Voted, To take up so much of the Second Article as is 
necessary, and proceed to the choice of a Town Clerk. 

The polls were opened and closed by vote of the meeting, 
when the whole number of votes was found to be one hundred 
and forty-two (142). Necessary to a choice, seventy-three 
(73). Elijah Hersey had sixty (60) ; Benj. F. Baker had 
eighty-two and was declared elected Town Clerk for the 



420 Brookline Town Records. 

ensuing year, and was sworn to the faithful discharge of his 
duty by Artemas Newell, Esq., Justice of the Peace. 

Voted, That Article Second be laid on the table and the 
Third Article be taken up. 

The reports of town officers and committees being called 
for, Jerathmael Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, pre- 
sented the following : 

REPORT. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen submit the 
following report of the places where guide-posts and boards are erected 
and maintained by the town : 

There is a guide-post with a board thereon standing at the junction of 
Boylston street with AVashington street, directing to Brigton and New- 
ton Upper Falls; one at the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, 
directing to Newton, Worcester, and Dedham; one at the corner of 
Brighton street, directing to Brighton; one at Boylston and Cross, to 
Newton Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton ; one at Heath and Warren 
streets, to Newton, Dedham, and Brighton ; one at Clyde street and 
Warren street, to Dedham and Brighton ; one at Clyde and Newton 
streets, to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham; one at Grove and Newton 
streets, to West Roxbury and Dedham ; one at Grove and South streets, 
to Brighton ; one at South and Newton streets, to Dedham, Newton, and 
Brighton; one at Warren and Cottage streets, to Dedham and Jamaica 
Plain ; one at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain ; one at 
Washington and Harvard streets, to Brighton and Cambridge; one 
at Harvard street and Sewall's avenue, to Cambridge and Cambridgeport. 
All which is respectfully submitted by the Selectmen, 

Brookline, March, 1853. Jek'l Davenport, 

(File G, 22.) Chairman. 

Voted, To accept the report. 

Voted, To accept the Report of the School Committee 
without reading. 

Voted, To accept the Auditors' Report in the same manner. 

Samuel Philbrick presented the following as the Report of 
the Cemetery Committee : 

To the Inhabitants of the town of Brookline in Tovm Meeting assembled: 

The Cemetery Committee, in the discharge of their duties the past 
year, have caused all the remaining unlotted ground suitable for family 
interments in the cemetery to be surveyed and laid out into nineteen new 
lots, varying in size, according to situation, from 188 to 397 square feet, 
all which are entered, with the contents of each, on the original plan 
drawn by E. F. Woodward. They have also sold two lots for twenty- 



Annual Meeting, March 14, 1853. 



421 



Ave dollars each, and one small triangular lot for ten dollars, making an 
amount of sixty dollars, which sum has been paid into the town treasury. 
The expenses incurred in surveying and laying out these new lots, enter- 
ing them on the plan, and providing stakes for the boundaries of each, 
together with the ordinary expenses of keeping the grounds and avenues 
in proper order, have amounted to eighty dollars and nine cents, which 
amount the Selectmen declined settling, on account of its exceeding the 
appropriation made for that purpose. Consequently the bills all remain 
unpaid. Your committee therefore request an appropriation to meet 
these expenses. For the Committee, 

Brooklixe, March 14, 1853. S. l'lui.r.iucK. 

(File G, 23.) Chairman. 



Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 

Voted, To accept the report of the committee of the town 
of Brookline for building a road from the end of the Mill 
Dam to Washington street, without reading. 

Moses Withington, Treasurer of the town, presented the 
following 1 : 



REPORT. 

The whole amount of receipts from all sources 
Deduct payment of loans to Bank of Brighton 

Whole am't of available funds received . 
Whole amount of expenditures 

Leaving balance in Treasury of 

Debts ov the Town. 



$26,214 14 
3,000 00 

$23,214 14 
21,626 53 



$1,587 59 



To whom Payable. 


Date of Note. 


When Payable. 


Am't due. 


Rate of Int. 


Commonwealth Mass 


Oct. 17, 1851. 
Julv22, 1851. 


Oct. 17,1853. 

" " 1854. 

" " 1855. 
Julv22,1856. 
Aug. 12, 1856. 
May 22, 1857. 


$2,000 @ 
2,000 
2,000 
2,000 
3,000 
3,500 @ 


6 pr. cent. 


C. J. & G. A. Taylor 


Aug. 12, 1851. 
May 22, 1852. 


5£ « « 




Total am't of town debt is $14,500 





The Treasurer holds one note for the town for $1000, given by Syl- 
vester Kimball, dated May 27th, 1852, payable in three years, with interest 
semi-annually at the rate of six per cent. Respectfully submitted. 

Brookline, March 4th, 1853. Moses Withington, 

(File G, 24.) Accepted. Treasurer and Coll. 

Voted, To take up the Second Article and proceed to vote 
for County Treasurer, and that the polls be open ten minutes, 



422 Brookline Town Records. 

— and at the expiration of that time they were declared closed, 
and the whole number of votes was one hundred and forty- 
one (141). 

Elbridge G. Robinson had forty-five (45). 

Geo. Ellis " ninety-six (96). 

On motion of William Aspinwall, it was — 

Voted, That the town choose by ballot, for the ensuing 
year, three Selectmen, three Assessors, one Treasurer, to be 
Collector, five School Committee men, five Constables, three 
Highway Surveyors ; each officer or set of officers to be voted 
for on separate ballots. 

Voted, That the polls be opened and kept open fifteen min- 
utes, to receive votes for Selectmen, — and at the expiration 
of that time the polls were declared closed by the Moderator. 

The whole number of votes cast was one hundred and 
eighty-one (181). Necessary to a choice, ninety-one (91). 
Jerathmael Davenport had one hundred and twenty-two (122). 
David S. Coolidge " one hundred and twenty-one( 121). 

James Bartlett " one hundred and thirteen (113). 

Willard A. Humphrey " one hundred and ten (110). 
William Dearborn " sixty-seven (67). 

And the following-named gentlemen, having the highest 
number of votes cast, were declared elected Selectmen for 
the ensuing year, to wit : Jerathmael Davenport, David S. 
Coolidge, James Bartlett, Selectmen. 

Voted, That the polls be opened, and kept open ten min- 
utes, to receive votes for Assessors. 

At the expiration of the time, the polls were declared 
closed by the Moderator. The whole number of votes was 
one hundred and fifty ( 150) . Necessary to a choice, seventy- 
six (76). 

Charles Stearns, Jr., had eighty-eight (88). 



W. A. Humphrey 
Augustus W. Seamans 
James Robinson 
John N. Turner 
Jesse Bird 
Thomas C. Quimby 



eighty-two (82). 
seventy-eight (78) 
seventy (70). 
seventy (70). 
fifty-nine (59). 
one (1). 



Annual Meeting, March 14, 1853. 423 

And Messrs. Chas. Stearns, Jr., W. A. Humphrey, A. W. 
Seamans, were declared elected Assessors for the ensuing 
year. 

Voted, To proceed to ballot for Treasurer and Collector, 
and that the polls be kept open ten minutes, 
— which was done, and then declared closed by the Moder- 
ator. 

The whole number of votes was as follows : One hundred 
and fifty-one (151). Necessary to a choice, seventy-six (76) . 

Jerathmael Davenport had sixty (60). 

Moses Withington had ninety-one (91) and was chosen 
Treasurer and Collector for the town for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourns it be to the first 
Monday in April next, at this place, at three of the clock in 
the afternoon. 

The meeting then proceeded to bring in their ballots for 
five School Committee men, and the whole number of ballots 
was one hundred and twenty-nine (129). Necessary for a 
choice, sixty-five (Q5). 

Rev. William H. Shailer had ninety-one (91). 
" Frederick N. Knapp " ninety-two (92). 
" Watson M. Smith " ninety-one (91). 
" John S. Stone " eighty-nine (89). 

W. P. Atkinson " eighty-eight (88). 

Sam'l Philbrick " thirty-nine (39). 

G. F. Homer " thirty-five (35). 

John A. Bird " thirty-nine (39). 

Tappen Eustis Francis " thirty-nine (39). 

Fred'k J. Williams " thirty-eight (38). 

E. Littell " one (1). 

Edw. A. Wild " three (3), and the five first 

named were declared elected. 

The meeting then proceeded to the choice of Constables, 
and the whole number of votes was one hundred and one 
(101). Necessary to a choice, fifty-one (5L). 

Elisha Stone had one hundred and one (101). 

Franklin Tukey had ninety-nine (99). 

Augustus Allen " ninety-seven (97). 



424- Brookline Town Records. 

Albert Clarke had sixty-five (65). And they were de- 
clared elected. 

A. H. Clapp had forty-nine (49). 

J. M. Russell " forty-eight (48). 

Ansel Waterman one(l). R. A. Chase one (1). 

And Messrs. Elisha Stone, Franklin Tukey, Albert Clarke 
and Augustus Allen were declared elected for the ensuing 
year. Messrs. Stone, Tukey and Allen then came forward 
and were sworn into office by the Moderator. 

Voted, To reconsider the vote whereby the town voted to 
choose five Constables, and that four be the number for the 
ensuing year. 

The ballots for Highway Surveyors, being called for, 
resulted as follows: Whole number, sixty-eight (68). 
Necessary for choice, thirty-five (35). 

Samuel Philbrick had fifty-seven (57). 

Timothy Corey " sixty-one (61). 

Thomas C. Qui mby " sixty-four (64), — and they were 
chosen Highway Surveyors for the ensuing year. Other 
votes were as follows: William Dearborn (7), Charles 
Stearns, Jr., (4), Thomas Griggs (1), W. W. Clement (1), 
Calvin Smith (2), H. M. Sanborn (1). 

Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant and delivered the 
same to Constable Franklin Tukey, requiring him to sum- 
mon all officers chosen, to appear before the Town Clerk 
within seven days and be sworn to their respective offices 
where an oath is required by law, or to signify their accept- 
ation or refusal of the office to which they were respectively 
chosen. (File G, No. 25.) 

In the balloting the check-list was used. (File G, No. 25^.) 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Animal Meeting, March 14, 1853. 425 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe. 

Then personally appeared the undermentioned persons 
and were sworn before me at the time set against their names, 
or signified their acceptance or refusal of the offices to which 
they had severally been chosen. 

B. F. BAKER, 

Town Cleric. 

16 Mar. Win. P. Atkinson accepted School Committee. 
" " Rev. John S. Stone " " " 

Rev. Matson M. Smith declined " " 

21 " J. Davenport sworn Selectman. 
•■ ••' D. S. Coolidge 

" James Bartletl " " 

22 " Closes Withington " Treasurer and Collector. 
Timothy Corej " Surveyor of Highways. 
W. A. Eumphrey " Assessor. 
Mr. Matson M. Smith withdrew his refusal and accepted as one 

of the School Committe. 
Thomas C. Quimby sworn Surveyor of Highways. 
A. W. Seamans " Assessor. 

Chas. Stearns, Jr. " Assessor. 
A. II. Knight " Field Driver. 

Oliver Cousens " " " 

Calvin Smith " Surveyor of Highways. 

G. W. Stearns declined Prudential School Committee. 
Ebenezer Reed sworn Field Driver. 

David P. Kenrick " " " 

C. L. Haynes " Field Driver and Fence Viewer. 

C. L. Haynes accepted Prudential School Committee. 
" " Horace James sworn Field Driver. 

11 ■• Alfred Kenrick " " " 

Timothy Corey " " " 

12 •• Elisha Stone " Surveyor of Lumber. 



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SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 4, 1853, 

to bring in votes for three county commissioners and 
two Special County Commissioners. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town 
of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their 
votes to the Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said town, for 
three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners 
for the County of Norfolk, being all inhabitants of different 
towns within said County, to serve for the term of three years 
and until others are chosen in their stead, on the fourth day 
of April next, it being the first Monday in said month, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at one 
of the clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
polls will be opened. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twenty- 
first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred 

and fifty-three. 

• Jer'th. Davenport, 

D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 30th, 1853. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of 
Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
named, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their places of residence. 

(File G, No. 26.) Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 



Special Meeting, April 4, 1853. 427 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the meeting was 
called to order at eight minutes past one o'clock, and the 
warrant and return was read by Jerathmael Davenport, 
Chairman of the Selectmen, and the polls were declared 
open for the reception of ballots for three Commissioners 
and two Special Commissioners for the County of Norfolk. 

At fifteen minutes to three o'clock, on motion of W. Aspin- 
wall, it was voted that the polls be now closed, and the polls 
were declared closed, by the Chairman. 

After closing the polls, the Selectmen and Town Clerk 
counted and sorted the votes, and the whole number was 
seventy-two, and were as follows, to wit, for Commissioners : 

Nathaniel F. Safford of Dorchester had forty-five (45). 

James C. Doane of Cohasset " forty-four (44). 

Nathan Jones of Med way " forty-four (44). 

Asaph Churchill of Dorchester " twenty-seven (27). 

Ebenezer Beal of Randolph " twenty-seven (27). 

Samuel Warren, Jr., of Wrentham " twenty-nine (29). 

The whole number of votes for Special Commissioners was 
seventy -two, to wit : 

Abraham F. Howe of Roxbury had forty-five (45). 

John A. Gould of Walpole " forty-three (43). 

James Humphrey of Weymouth " twenty-seven (27). 

James Bartlett of Brookline " twenty-nine (29). 

This result was declared to the meeting. The return was 
then made up, signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, 
and sealed up in open town meeting, and the meeting was 
declared dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



428 Brookline Town Records. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 4, 1853. 

Pursuant to adjournment, the inhabitants of the town met 
in the Town Hall, on the afternoon of Monday, April the 
fourth, A. D. 1853. 

The Moderator called the meetino- to order at eight min- 
utes past three o'clock, who made a statement of the list of 
vacant offices to be filled at this meeting ; the Rev. Matson 
M. Smith having first declined and then desired to withdraw 
his refusal to serve as a member of the School Committee 
and accept of the office, the Moderator stated the facts in the 
case to the meeting, when it was, by Samuel Philbrick, Esq., 
moved that the meeting proceed to fill two vacancies in the 
board of School Committee. The subject was debated by 
Messrs. Edward A. Dana, W. I. Bowditch, E. Littell, Mar- 
shall Stearns and James Robinson, Esq., against the motion, 
and George Griggs, William Aspinwall, Geo. F. Homer and 
Sam'l Philbrick, Esq., in favor. The motion was then sub- 
mitted to the meeting, and was decided in the negative. 

Voted, That the meeting proceed to the choice of one 
School Committeman. 

The whole number of ballots was eighty-seven (87) ; nec- 
essary to a choice, forty-four (44). 

Matson M. Smith had one (1). 

Geo. F. Homer " nineteen (19). 

Samuel Philbrick " sixty-seven (67), and was declared 
elected, and accepted the trust. 

The balloting to choose one Constable was as follows, to 
wit: Whole number of votes, eighty-one (81); necessary 
for a choice, forty-one (41). 

Calvin Smith had two (2). 

Charles Smith " thirty-five (35). 

A. H. Clapp " forty-four (44), and was chosen Con- 
stable for the ensuing year. 

Calvin Smith was chosen Surveyor in place of Samuel 
Philbrick, who declined serving. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingman. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 4, 1853. 429 

Clark L. Haynes and Abijah W. Goddard Avere chosen 
Fence Viewers for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose nine Field Drivers for the ensuing year, 
— and the following named gentlemen were chosen : Horace 
James, Thomas B. Griggs, Timothy Corey, Ebenezer Reed, 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr., A. W. Seamans, David T. Kenrick, 
Abner H. Knight, Oliver Cousens, Field Drivers. 

Voted, To choose four Prudential School Committeemen 
for the ensuing year, 
— and the following-named gentlemen were chosen : 

Charles Stearns, Jr., for the North District. 

Geo. W. Stearns " " Middle District. 

Charles G. Colbath " " 

Clark L. Haynes " " High and Intermediate Schools. 

Elisha Stone and Clark L. Haynes were chosen Surveyors 
of Lumber. 

Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

Jesse Bird, Sam'l Philbrick and Harrison Fay were chosen 
Cemetery Committee, and accepted the office. 

Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder and Edward Atkin- 
son were chosen Auditors. 

James Robinson was chosen Sealer of Leather. 

Augustus Allen, Charles W. Tolman and Samuel Clark 
were chosen Fire Wards. 

Messrs. Tolman and Clark asked to be excused, but the 
meeting voted not to excuse them. 

J. Davenport, D. S. Coolidge and James Bartlett were 
chosen Overseers of the Poor. 

On motion of William I. Bowditch, it was — 

Voted, To reconsider the vote passed at the annual meet- 
ing held March the 14th, whereby the town accepted the 
Auditors' report. 

Voted, To accept the Auditors' report as amended and 
presented to this meeting. (See file G, No. 27.) 

The Building Committee on school-houses made a verbal 
report. The chairman, Harrison Fay, stated that they had 
made some progress, and were now in a way to do some- 



430 Brookline Town Records. 

thing more definite in the matter than they had ever been 
able to do before ; also, that there were two vacancies in the 
committee. 

On motion of Edward A. Dana, it was — 

Resolved, That a committee of nine be chosen, by nomina- 
tion from the chair, to take into consideration the whole sub- 
ject of new school-houses and their location, and to report 
as soon as practicable at a town meeting to be specially 
called for that purpose, with such recommendations as they 
may deem proper, and that the Building Committee appoint- 
ed last year be directed, in the meantime, to take no further 
action. 

George Griggs offered the following amendment, which 
was accepted by Mr. Dana : 

Resolved, That said committee cause their said report to 
be printed and distributed to the inhabitants of the town 
with the notices calling the town meeting to consider the 
subject. 

The amendment was adopted. (G, 27.) 

Mr. Dana's motion now coming up, it was — 

Voted, To adopt the motion as amended by Mr. Griggs, 
— and the chair appointed the following-named gentlemen to 
be a committee of nine, to wit : 

Harrison Fay, Edw. A. Dana, Samuel Philbrick, William 
Dearborn, William P. Atkinson, Bela Stoddard, A. W. 
Goddard, James Robinson, (Augustus AJlen), John Howe 
— committee to investigate the subject of new school-houses 
and their locations. 

Mr. Allen declining, John Howe was chosen in his stead. 

The Fourth Article in the warrant was then taken up, viz. : 

To see if the town will cause flagging-stones to be laid across Wash- 
ington street at the head of "Washington place ; also, across Harvard at 
the foot of School street. 

Referred to the Surveyors of Highways. 

The Fifth Article being taken up, Dr. Chas. Wild pre- 
sented the following report, to wit : 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 4, 1853. 431 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed to report upon the expediency of widening 
School street, on full consideration of the subject, represent that, in view 
of the increased and still increasing amount of travel through said street, 
it is quite time that it should be rendered more commodious for the 
public. In some places it is but little more than thirty feet wide, and in 
consequence of the variety of grades on the sides of it, much even of its 
scanty dimensions is unavailable for the purposes of traveling with 
vehicles, while for foot passengers the accommodation is very imperfect 
and unsafe. In a very few years the call for an increase of its width 
will be imperious, and the value of the land to be used for the purpose 
will be then greatly enhanced, probably, by the erection of buildings on 
the southerly side. At present, with the exception of those on the estate 
of the late Mr. Hall, there are no buildings on the south side to interfere 
with any contemplated improvements, and we recommend, therefore, 
that the Selectmen be authorized to lay out the said street at a width not 
less than forty feet, and extending, where opportunities offer, to forty- 
eight feet, by commencing at Harvard street and taking land of Mr. 
William Dearborn about eight feet on said street from the north corner 
of School street and running to a point at the south corner of said Dear- 
born's land on School street; then taking land of the town from the 
corner of Mr. O. Cousens' land on the southerly side of the street; thence 
the line strikes the land late of Timothy C. Leeds, at a point distant 
about seven feet southeasterly of the present southerly line of the street, 
and continuing at that distance from said southerly line of the street 
along the whole extent of said Leeds' land, as well as of land late of said 
Edward Hall, till it reaches Washington street. And whereas the build- 
ings on the land of late Mr. Hall have been recently remodelled, and 
much inconvenience to the owners might result from their removal at 
present, we recommend that in that respect the street shall be laid out 
prospectively to the time when those buildings shall need much repair- 
ing, or the necessities of the town shall require their removal. 

(File G, 28.) Signed, Charles Wild. 

William I. Bowditch. 
Will. Aspixwall. 

Voted, To accept the report. 

Voted, That the subject of widening School street, in con- 
formity with the report of the committee, be referred to the 
Selectmen, with full powers to act according to their discre- 
tion. (G, 29.) 

The Sixth Article being taken up, it was, on motion of 
W. I. Bowditch, Esq.— 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the subject. 

Moved, by Geo. Griggs, Esq., that there shall be made 
an accurate topographical survey of the town by a skillful 



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engineer, and that a plan be drawn, and submitted to the 
town by him, showing where and at what grades streets and 
sidewalks can be most advantageously made and public 
squares and parks reserved, and that, if it meets the appro- 
bation of the town, the Selectmen or County Commissioners 
be authorized to lay out such streets prospectively, to be 
hereafter built, from time to time, as there shall be need. 

Voted, That the subject be referred to the Selectmen, to 
report at some future meeting. 

Voted, That the appropriations be taken up separately. 

Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the 
ensuing year, to wit : 



For support of poor . 


fl,200 00 


support of schools 


4,200 00 


books of reference 


25 00 


support of highways ...... 


1,650 00 


making road by Town House, widening School street 




and land damages 


500 00 


County tax 


5,100 00 


Fire Department 


50.0 00 


collecting taxes 


150 00 


abatement of taxes 


250 00 


town officers 


800 00 


repairs of public buildings 


200 00 


extinction of town debt 


2,000 00 


interest on town debt 


850 00 


Cemetery 


180 00 


contingencies ....... 


900 00 


plan of town for use of Assessors .... 


100 00 




$18,605 00 



Voted, That the expenses of draping the Town Hall with 
emblems of mourning in honor to the memory of Hon. 
Daniel Webster, late Secretary of State, be paid by the 
Selectmen from the contingent fund. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized 
forthwith to remove the hay-scales from Washington street 
to some suitable place on land belonging to the town, or to 
purchase land elsewhere for their accommodation, as they 
may see fit ; and that they cause Washington street to be 
graded so as to afford an easy and safe access to the bridge, 
and also to the depot-grounds from said street, and that $150 
be appropriated for that purpose. (G, 30.) 



Special Meeting, May 2, 1853. 433 

Voted, That the money appropriated by the town for 
various purposes, including the appropriation for the mak- 
ing and repairing highways and town ways, be assessed, after 
deducting the balance in the treasury and the probable 

receipts for the ensuing year amounting to the sum of , 

upon the polls and estates, real and personal, of the in- 
habitants, resident and non-resident, of the town, and collected 
as the town charges are usually assessed and collected. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the 
sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, in anticipation 
of taxes to be raised and collected. 

Adjourned without day. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 2, 1853. 



w aim; ant. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, 
qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their votes to the 
Selectmen, at the Town Hall in said town, for two County 
Commissioners and two Special Commissioners, to complete 
the number required for the County aforesaid, on Monday, 
the second day of May next, at three o'clock in the after- 
noon, at which time and place the polls will be opened. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 



434 Brookline Town Records. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twenty-second day of April, in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-three. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, April 27th, 1853. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants 
of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their several places 
of residence. Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. 31.) Constable of Brookline. 

At three o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, May the 
second, in conformity with the foregoing warrant, the meet- 
ing was called to order and the warrant and return was read 
by J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen. 

The polls were then opened and kept open until five of 
the clock, when they were closed by a vote of the voters 
present. The Selectmen then sorted and counted the votes 
in presence of the Town Clerk and in open town meeting, 
and declaration thereof was made as follows, to wit, for 
County Commissioners : 

Whole number of ballots, forty-one. 

Nath'l F. Safford of Dorchester had twenty-five (25). 

James C. Doane " Cohasset " twenty-five (25). 

Eleazer Beal " Randolph ' " sixteen (16). 

Asaph Churchill " Dorchester " sixteen (16). 

For Special Commissioners — the whole number of ballots 
forty-one. 

Abraham F. Howe of Roxbury had twenty-five (25). 

John A. Gould " Walpole " twenty-five (25). 

James Humphrey "Weymouth" sixteen (16). 

James Bartlett "Brookline " sixteen (16). 

The return was made up and signed by J. Davenport and 
Jas. Bartlett, and attested by the Town Clerk, and sealed 
up in open town meeting. 

The meeting was then dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Militia List, 1853. 



435 



List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1853, 



Albert Clark 
Calvin Smith 
Doct. Chamberlin 
William Stearnes 
Joseph Fisk 
John W. Griggs 
S. L. Lyford 
Mark Ellisson 
Cyrus W. Hays 
William B. Chapin 
Thomas B. Hall 
Rob't Alniy 
John A. Burnham 



B. F. Baker 
James Hobbs 
Will. Aspinwall 
Geo. F. Homer 
Francis Holms 
D. H. Rogers 
T. B. Maynard 
George B. Bradford 
Charles Burrell 
Ezra S. Burrell 
David Wilder, Jr. 

Hallett 

Edw. A. Dana 



Geo. Forrester Barstow Charles W. Scudder 






Simeon Barstow 
Francis Caverly 
Charles White 
Caleb Russell 
David Sears, Jr. 
Edward D. Sohier 
David Eckley 
Charles W. Cotting 
Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
Charles Whitemore 
Andrew J. Harrington 
William J. Griggs 
Wellington Fogg 
Henry Robbins 
William Bramhall, Jr. 
Ferdinand Andrews 
Josiah Gooding 
Chas. F. Huntington 
Charles E. Lane 
Rob't S. Littell 
Geo. C. Barney 
William Pope 
John Pope 
Oliver Cousens 
Edwin Field 
Jona. D. Long 
Henry Averill 
Frederick Prescott 
Alfred A. Colt 
James Alger 

Perry 

M. C. Warren 



John N. Turner 
Harrison Fay 
Benjamin Bradley 
Thomas Howe 
David Robinson 
William Robinson 
William H. Jameson 
Franklin Z. Brett 
Stephen Coolidge 
James W. Coolidge 
Francis French 
W. A. Wellman 
W. I. Bowditch 
W. A. Ladd 
Thomas Seaverns 
David T. Kenriek 
Geo. Stoddard 
Charles W. Smith 
Isaac Taylor 
D. Augustus Griggs 
Edward R. Seccomb 
James L. Oliver 
David H. Daniels 
Ginery Twichell 
Cyrus W. Ruggles 
Simeon Taylor 
James Morse 
Royal Woodward 
Samuel B. Little 
0. B. Delano 
Elijah Hersey 
George E. Hersey 
Charles Berry 



William Barnard 
Ira A. Dutton 

Clark 

Meyers Orcutt 
William K. Melcher 
Edward Leighton 
Sylvester Kimball 
George W. Butters 
Andrew McKenney 
Clark L. Bixby 
Abijah C. Stone 
Alfred M. Shapleigh 
N. W. Brackett 
Moses Judkins 
Henry H. Pain 
Alvin A. Rice 
Charles Brackett 
William C. Clark 
Michael Quinlan 
William Jones 
James Driscoll 
Daniel Cowdry 
Nathaniel Sawyer 
Henry Sawyer 
Moses Stone 
John Dustin 
P. J. Howard 

A. H. Clapp 

Isaac Farrington, Jr. 
John Webber 
William Coolidge 

B. W. Hobart 
Josiah M. Russell 
Elijah C. Emerson 
George E. Carlton 
Josiah W. Putnam 
Elisha Jacobs 

C. L. Palmer 
Alfred Kenriek 
James H. Patten 
Geo. W. Patten 
Robert S. Davis 
Russell O. Bean 
Henry Lee, Jr. 
ChristopherShepherdson 
M. C. Ferris 

Geo. W. Hancock 



436 



Brookline Town Records. 



Charles Warren 
Reuben A. Chase 
Charles W. Tolman 
Edward A. Wild 
Charles Wild 
James Edmonds 
Geo. B. Blake 
Gardner S. Kathen 
John W. Candler 
George W. Atkinson 
Daniel W. Atkinson 
Phillip S. Allen 
Victor Vinton 
T. B. Griggs 
Rich'd Pendergrass 
Abraham Langley 
John Kanlin 
William Jackson 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Peter Harvey 
Andrew Cutter 
Henry Staffer 
Geo. T. Bartlett 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin E. Crawford 
E. Henry Corey 
Enoch Potter 
Moses Withington 
John F. Edwards 
Charles B. Dana 
Edw. C. Willson 
E. D. Kellogg 
Harrison Bird 
Nathaniel Lyford 
Geo. Atkinson 
Edw'd Atkinson 
Mont'y D. Parker 
Lewis T. Stoddard 
Geo. Bacon 
James M. Howe 
Geo. N. Hill 
Samuel Clark 
B. W. Clark 
John A. Bird 
Alfred Winsor 
Lafayette Thayer 
B. F. Kendall 
H. W. Carr 
Russell Hallett 



William F. Lawrence 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Frederick W. Leavit 
Frederick J. Williams 
Horatio Leavit 
Charles Pope 
A. W. Seamans 
James M. Seamans 
Gardner F. Clark 
A. H. Allen 
Moses Jones, Jr. 
Edward Head 
Andrew H. Newell 
Frederick K. Newell 
Doct'r Salisbury 
C. P. Trowbridge 
Frankl. Tukey 
W. R. Day 

Cochran 

Lyford 

Peter W. Pierce 
Benja. T. Stephenson 
Charles F. Foster 
John Gibbs 

A. Cofl'ran 

Andrews 

Geo. S. Gushing 
Geo. Tyler 
John W. Warren 
Simon Warren 
Charles Smith 
John Woodward 
E. T. Penniman 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Francis K. Fisher 
Will. J. Humphrey 
Henry Jones 
A. B. Milliken 
Charles D. Head 
James Williams 
James Ward 
Geo. I. Perry 
Mathias Wood 
William Ford 
Alonzo Bowman 
Frank Howe 
Simon Clifford 
William Teeafl'ee 
Eliot Cabot 



Geo. W. Stearnes 
William Sanderson 
A. H. Knight 
Benj'n R. Jewett 
Aaron Whitney 
John O. Libbey 
Ansel Waterman 
Lafayette Fairbanks 
Royal Mcintosh 
Peleg Gulliver 
William Bird 
Clark L. Haynes 
Abraham L. Cutler 
Augustine Shurtleff 
Charles O. Howe 
A. Newell 
Daniel Kendall 
Geo. Brooks 
John Colby 
Frank Seamans 
John Aspinwall 
William D. Town 
William R. Dean 
Eben'r Reed 
Silas H. Langley 
Israel F. Horn 
Thadeus ToAvnsend 
Thomas Townsend 
I. L. Sherriff 
Joseph L. White 
William White 
John H. Henshaw 
Solomon Seavery 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
William McKee 
Geo. J. Fisher 
N. G. Chapin 
Charles F. Howard 
John Goss 
Lawrence McCarty 
William J. Hyde 
Samuel D. Hill 
George W. Goodenough 
Xanthus Goodenough 
John Townsend 
Geo. Craft 
Charles Craft 
Albert Clifford 
George Colbath 



/Special Meeting, September 22, 1853. 



437 



William D. Philbrick 
Charles Warren 
Geo. Griggs 
Eben'r Wright 
John N. Wright 
John L. Gillman 
M. B. Williams 
Charles Chase 
William H. Slocum 
Richard Sullivan 
J. Anson Guild 
Dr. Tappan E. Francis 
Henry Houghton 
Horace James 
John Wood 

Benckner 

Francis Bibber 
Joseph Ferguson 
Benjamin Wells 



Lewis Cabot 
Charles Johnson 
Samuel Simmonds 
Joseph Bogan 
Patrick McCue 
Stephen Smith 
John W. Blanchard 
Waldo Maynard 
John Srenson 

Gilbert 

Isaac Coffin 
Henry Whitney 
William 1'. Atkinson 
J. Boylstoii Clark 
William Dwight 
Wilder Dwight 
Henry Weeks 
Samuel Eliot 
William P. Eliot 



James Madder 
Edw'd N. Dane 
Geo. N. Dane 
L H. Stoddard 
W. W. Clement 
Thomas S. Pettingale 
A. W. Smith 
Thomas C. Quimby 
John Burton 
J. Whitney Lawrence 
William Wharton 
James Houghton 
Samuel Champion 
George C. Hull 
George W. Goldsmith 
Dr. John H. Trowbridge 
Henry K. White 
John E. Sanborn 
James Young 345 



Recorded and returned July 8, 1853. (File G, No. .".2.) 

List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 185::, by the Assessors, 
according to law. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 

Chairman of the Assessors. 
B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 22, A. D. 1853. 



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WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of (he Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said town on Thursday, the twenty-second day 



438 Brookline Town Records. 

of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty-three, at two and a half o'clock in the afternoon, for 
the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To act upon the report of the committee chosen at the annual 
meeting to consider the whole subject of new school-houses and their 
location. 

Third. To hear and act upon the petition of Geo. Baty Blake and 
others, for the laying out of a road from the foot of School street to the 
new bridge across Charles River, leading from the ship-yard (so called) 
to Cambridgeport. 

Fourth. To hear and act upon the proposition of David Sears and 
others in regard to widening Beacon street across the marsh, and plant- 
ing ornamental trees on the same. 

Fifth. To hear and act upon the request of Charles Burrell to see if 
the town will sell him a piece of the town's land adjoining his estate. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
tenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-three. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Sept. 15th, 1853. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants 
of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their several places 

of residence. (File G, No. 32.) 

Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 
A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon. 

Attest: B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

According to the foregoing- warrant, the inhabitants of the 
town met at the Town Hall on the afternoon of Thursday, 
Sept. the 22d, A. D. 1853, and were called to order by the 
Town Clerk, who read the warrant and return (at twenty 
minutes to three o'clock), and presided during the election 
of Moderator, who was chosen by written ballots, and result- 
ed in the choice of John Howe for Moderator. 



Special Meeting, September 22, 1853. 439 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and 
it was — 

Voted, To accept the report of the Committee on school- 
houses, which had been printed and distributed amongst 
the inhabitants of the town for their consideration. (See 
File G, No. 33.) 

Mr. Edward A. Dana then presented the following reso- 
lutions : 

Voted, That for the purposes of enlarging the present 
school-house lot in the South, or Middle, District, agreeably 
to the recommendations of the Committee on new school- 
houses and their location, this day submitted, the Select- 
men be directed and authorized to purchase as much addi- 
tional land from the adjoining estate of Mr. Warren White 
as will make the lot, when thus enlarged, equal to half an 
acre in extent ; and in case the owners thereof shall refuse 
to sell the same, or demand therefor a price which in the 
opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that they be author- 
ized to select and lay out as much additional land from said 
adjoining estate as is allowed by the statute to be taken for 
the purpose aforesaid, and also to take all such further pro- 
ceedings in the premises as required by law. 

Voted, That for the purpose of providing a school-house 
lot for the new Primary school in the North District, as rec- 
ommended by the committee aforesaid, the Selectmen be 
directed and authorized to select and purchase a lot of land 
of suitable dimensions in the vicinity of Pearl place, and in 
case the owner thereof shall refuse to sell the same, or shall 
demand a price therefor which in the opinion of the Select- 
men is unreasonable, that the Select men be directed and 
authorized to select and lay out, at their discretion, a school- 
house lot in that vicinity of an area not exceeding what is 
allowed by law, and also to take all such further proceedings 
in the premises as the law requires. 

Voted, That for the purpose of providing a new school- 
house for the northerly section of the North District, as rec- 
ommended by the committee aforesaid, that the Selectmen 
be authorized to select and purchase a suitable school-house 



440 BrooMine Town Records. 

lot on or near Pleasant street, and in case the owner thereof 
shall refuse to sell the same, or shall demand a price therefor 
which in the opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that 
the Selectmen be authorized and directed to select and lay 
out, at their discretion, a school-house lot in that vicinity of 
the extent allowed by law, and to take all such further pro- 
ceedings in the premises as the law requires. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be directed to cause all the 
gravel that may hereafter be required for the repair of the 
highways in the vicinity, or for other public purposes, to be 
taken from the southeast corner of the town's land lying 
north of the new town road from Washington street to 
School street, with a view to bring the land, as soon as prac- 
ticable, to a suitable grade for the erection of a new school- 
house thereon. 

Voted, That a Building Committee of five be appointed to 
erect upon each of the three school-house lots which the 
Selectmen have been directed by the preceding votes to 
obtain, a new school-house of sufficient size to accommodate 
two schools of not less than sixty scholars each, to be built 
of wood, after such plans and designs as the committee, in 
their discretion, may see tit to adopt. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the town be authorized to 
borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, in such sums and 
at such times as may be required by the Selectmen and the 
Building Committee to perform the duties with which they 
are respectively charged. 

Voted, To rescind the votes of the town passed at the 
annual meeting in March, 1852, appointing a Building Com- 
mittee and authorizing the Treasurer of the town to borrow 
the sum of ten thousand dollars for the objects then con- 
templated. (These votes, together with the amendment, is 
on file G, No. 34.) 

Voted, That the resolutions be taken up separately. 

The firs!: resolution coming up in order, elicited a lengthy 
debate, Mr. Warren White, the owner of the estate, object- 
ing to his land being taken under the statute, and not wish- 
ing to sell. The discussion was spiritedly maintained by 



Special Meeting, September 22, 1853. 441 

Messrs. Homer, Dana, Philbrick and Atkinson in the affirm- 
ative, and Messrs. White, Aspinwall and Parker in the neg- 
ative. Mr. George F. Homer proposing an amendment, it 
was — 

Voted, To lay the first resolution on the table, to give 
time to the mover to complete his amendment, with the 
understanding implied that the resolution should be taken up 
when his amendment was ready. 

The second resolve then coming up in order, it was — 

Voted, To adopt the second resolution. 

Voted, To adopt the third resolution. 

Voted, To adopt the fourth resolution. 

Voted, That the first resolution be now taken from the 
table. 

The first resolution was then taken from the table, and 
the following amendment was offered by G. F. Homer and 
accepted by Mr. E. A. Dana, to wit: 

Provided, however, that the Selectmen and School Com- 
mittee shall have power to change said location to such suit- 
able lot of land as said White may cause to be conve} r ed to 
the town for this purpose in manner and on terms satisfac- 
tory to them within thirty days from this date. 

The question then coming up on the amendment, it was 

Voted, To adopt the amendment to the first resolution. 

It was then — 

Voted, To adopt the first resolution as amended. 

And the whole resolution was thereby made to read thus : 

Voted, That for the purpose of enlarging the present 
school-house lot in the South, or Middle, District, agreeably 
to the recommendations of the Committee on new school- 
houses and their location, this day submitted, the Select- 
men be directed and authorized to purchase as much addi- 
tional land from the adjoining estate of Mr. Warren White 
as will make the lot, when thus enlarged, equal to half an 
acre in extent ; and in case the owner thereof shall refuse 
to sell the same, or shall demand therefor a price which in 
the opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that they be 
authorized to select and lay out as much additional land for 



442 Brookline Town Records. 

the said adjoining estate as is allowed by statute to be taken 
for the purpose aforesaid, and also to take all such further 
proceedings in the premises as are required by law. Pro- 
vided, however, that the Selectmen and School Committee 
shall have power to change said location to such suitable lot 
of land as said White may cause to be conveyed to the town 
for this purpose in manner and on terms satisfactory to them 
within thirty days from this date. 

Voted, To adopt the fifth resolution. 

Voted, To appoint a committee in accordance with the 
provisions of the fifth resolution, by nomination at large. 

Accordingly, the meeting nominated and chose Messrs. 
Edward A. Dana, Jesse Bird, Bela Stoddard, Daniel Sander- 
son, James Bartlett, Building Committee on new school- 
houses. 

Voted, To adopt the sixth resolution. (See resolves.) 

Voted, To adopt the seventh resolution. (See resolves.) 

The Third Article in the warrant was then laid upon the 
table by a vote of the meeting, and on motion of Mr. Samuel 
Philbrick, it was — 

Voted, To choose a Prudential School Committeeman for 
the Middle District by nomination, and Mr. Joseph L.White 
was nominated and chosen. 

Voted, To take the Third Article from the table. 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by nomi- 
nation, to consider the petition of Geo. Baty Blake and 
others, (See file G, No. 35.) 

— and Messrs. Samuel Philbrick, Jesse Bird, Stephen G. 
Bass, were nominated and chosen such committee. 

The Fourth Article being taken up, it was — (see Art. 
4th in warrant) 

Voted, That a committee of three be chosen to consider 
the subject, 

— and the meeting chose for the committee Messrs. Samuel 
Philbrick, Jesse Bird, William Aspinwall. (File G, 36.) 

The Fifth Article then coming up, G. F. Homer offered 
the following vote : 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to sell the land 
belonging to the town and Iving east of the new street lead- 



General Election, November 14, 1853. 443 

ing from Mechanics place to School street, to the persons 
owning the adjoining land fronting on Harvard street, on 
such terms and in such manner as they may deem best, and 
that they be authorized, in behalf of the town, to make, 
execute, and deliver such deeds thereof to the purchaser or 
purchasers as they may deem best. (Vote and petition on 
file G, No. 37.) 

The Chairman then read the vote to the meeting, and the 
sense of the meeting being called for, it was decided in the 
negative. 

Voted, To adjourn sine die. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 14, A. D. 1853. 



WARRANT. 

[SEAL.] 

[seal. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town 
of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the fourteenth day of 
November, inst., it being the second Monday in said month, 
at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the 
polls will be opened and kept open not less than two hours, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To determine whether the town will send a Representative to 
the next General Court. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit : For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 



444 BrooMine Town Records. 

wealth, for three Senators for this County, and a Representative to the 
next General Court, if the town determine to send one — all to be voted 
for on one ballot; also, at the same time and place, to bring in their 
ballots, in sealed envelopes, Yes or No, on the following Constitutional 
propositions submitted by the Constitutional Convention held on the first 
Wednesday of May, 1S53, to wit : 

1st. Shall Proposition Number One, containing the Preamble, Declara- 
tion of Rights, and Frame of Government, stand as the Constitution of 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ? 

2d. Shall Proposition Number Two, respecting the Habeas Corpus, 
stand as part of the Constitution? 

3d. Shall Proposition Number Three, respecting the Rights of Juries, 
stand as a part of the Constitution? 

4th. Shall Proposition Number Four, respecting Claims against the 
Commonwealth, stand as a part of the Constitution? 

5th. Shall Proposition Number Five, respecting Imprisonment for 
Debt, stand as a part of the Constitution? 

6th. Shall Proposition Number Six, respecting Sectarian Schools, 
stand as a part of the Constitution? 

7th. Shall Proposition Number Seven, respecting the Creation of 
Corporations, stand as a part of the Constitution? 

8th. Shall Proposition Number Eight, respecting the Formation of 
Banks and requiring security for bank bills, stand as a part of the Con- 
stitution? 

The ballots for State Officers and those on the Constitutional proposi- 
tions to be deposited in separate boxes. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, on 
this third day of November, in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-three. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of BrooMine. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, November the — , 1853. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants 
of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within 
mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their several places 

of residence. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. 38.) Constable of Brookline. 

In accordance with the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants, 
voters of the town of Brookline, met at the Town Hall in 






General Election, November 14, 1853. 445 

said town on Monday, November the fourteenth, at one 
o'clock, and at ten minutes past one were called to order by 
Jerathmael Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, who read 
the warrant. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

The polls were then declared open for the reception of 
ballots for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Senators, and 
Representative, all on one ticket, to be placed in the ballot- 
box labeled, "Votes for State Officers," and the votes on the 
proposed Constitution, in sealed envelopes, to be deposited 
in the ballot-box labeled, " Votes for the Constitution," and 
the votes to be placed in the separate boxes as they were 
labeled, or they would not be counted. 

The polls having been kept open two hours, it was voted 
to close them at fifteen minutes past five o'clock. 

At twenty minutes past five o'clock the polls were declared 
closed, and the Selectmen sorted and counted the ballots, 
and the whole number was three hundred and fifty. And 
the whole number of votes were sorted, counted and recorded 
and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is 
directed, and said votes were for the following persons, viz. : 

The whole number of votes for Governor was three hundred forty-nine 

(349). 
Emory Washburn of Worcester had two hundred fifty-seven (257). 
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox had forty-five (45). 
Henry Wilson of Natick had forty (40). 
Bradford L. Wales of Randolph had five (5). 
Wendell Phillips of Boston had two (2). 

The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor was three hundred 

and fifty (350). 
William C. Plunkett of Adams had two hundred and sixty (260). 
Levi A. Dowley of Boston had forty-five (45). 
Amasa Walker of North Brookfield had forty-one (41). 
George Osborn of Dan vers had two (2). 

Osgood of Danvers had one (1). 

Edmund Quincy of Boston had one (1). 

The whole number of votes for Senators was three hundred forty-seven 

(347). 
William Aspinwall of Brookline had two hundred and seven (207). 
Calvin Eisher, Jr., of Wrentham had two hundred fifty-eight (258). 
John W. Loud of Weymouth had two hundred fifty-eight (258). 



446 Brookline Town Records. 

John J. Clark of Roxbury had forty-one (41). 
James Bartlett of Brookline had ninety-four (94). 
Joseph W. Robinson of Quincy had eighty-four (84). 
Francis Bird of Walpole had eighty-four (84) . 
Ezra Wilkinson had one (1). 
Harrison Fay had one (1). 

Whole number of votes for Representative to the next General Court was 
three hundred and forty-live (345). Necessary to a choice, one hun- 
dred seventy -three (173). 

W. B. Town had one (1). 

A. W. Goddard had thirty-eight (38). 

Geo. Babcock had forty-one (41). 

Eliakim Littell had fifty-four (54). 

Willard A. Humphrey had two hundred and eleven, and was declared 
elected Representative to the next General Court. 

The votes on the Constitutional Propositions were as fol- 
lows, viz. : 

-aj . J Yeas, seventy-five (75). 

JNO- (Nays, two hundred sixty-nine (269). 

No 2 / Yeas, seventy-three (73). 

' ' (_ Nays, two hundred seventy-two (272). 
-j^- o / Yeas, fifty-seven (57). 

°" ' (Nays, tAvo hundred eighty-seven (287). 
^ . f Yeas, seventy-eight (78). 

°" ' (Nays, two hundred sixty-seven (267). 
.Lj _ j Yeas, seventy-nine (79). 

(Nays, two hundred sixty-six (266). 

No fi / Yeas > ei g nt y ( 80 )- 

iNo. o. j Nayg) twQ hundred S i x ty-five (265). 

^ „ I Yeas, seventy -three (73). 

°" '" (Nays, two hundred seventy-two (272). 
•st o j Yeas, seventy-four (74). 

°" " \ Nays, two hundred seventy-one (271). 

In the voting, a check list was used, and no person was 
allowed to vote until his name was first found and checked 
on the list ; said list is on file G, No. 39. 

The business of the meeting having all been transacted, the 
returns were filled up, signed by the Selectmen and Town 
Clerk, sealed up in open town meeting and delivered to the 
Town Clerk to forward to the office of the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth. 

The meeting was then declared dissolved by J. Davenport, 
Chairman of the Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, December 26, 1853. 447 



SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 26, 1853. 



WARRANT. 

[seal!" Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.' 

Norfolk, ss. 

To the Constables of the Town of BwoUine, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said town, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and and fifty -three, at two of the clock in the afternoon, 
for the following 1 purposes, to wit : 



First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see if the town will make provisions for lighting the 
streets and Town Hall with gas. 

Third. To see if the town will order a survey and plan of the town, 
as recommended by a committee in a report dated Feb'y 25th, 1853. 

Fourth. To see if the town will cause to be printed, for the use of the 
inhabitants, a list of the taxes heretofore assessed in the town, with the 
names of the tax-payers and the amounts assessed, respectively. 

Fifth. To see what action the town will take in respect to the stop- 
ping up, by Theophilus P. Chandler, of an ancient culvert on Washing- 
ton street, in front of his estate. 

Sixth. To hear and act upon the request of Henry Lee and others in 
respect to the condition of Boylston street, opposite the estate of Henry 
Lee. 

Seventh. To hear and act upon the report of any committees. 

Eighth. To make all appropriations necessary by the vote of the town 
on the foreeroinsr articles. 



Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant 
with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said 
meeting. 



448 Broohline Town Records. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, Dec. 21, '53. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 

town of Brookline herein described to meet at said time and place and 

for the purposes within mentioned by leaving a printed notice at the last 

and usual place of abode of every legal voter in said town of Brookline. 

(File G, No. 39.) A. H. Clapp, 

Constable of Brookline. 
A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon. 

Attest: B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing warrant, 
the inhabitants of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said 
town on the afternoon of Monday, the twenty-sixth day of 
December, at two o'clock, and were called to order by the 
Town Clerk, who read the warrant and the return, and pre- 
sided during the choice of a Moderator, which resulted in the 
election of Mr. William P. Atkinson for Moderator. 

The Second Article in the warrant being taken up, Mr. 
G. F. Homer presented the following proposition from the 
Brookline Gas Light Company, viz. : 

The Brookline Gas Light Company propose to furnish such iron lamp- 
posts as may be needed for the streets of Brookline, supply the gas and 
light, clean and take care of the lamps, at the rate of twenty-five dollars 
per annum for each lamp. On nights when the moon shines and while 
the moon is up, the lamps will not be lighted. The posts to remain the 
property of the company. 

(File G, No. 40.) (Signed) G. F. Homer, 

Brookline, December 26th, 1853. Clerk of the B. G. L. Co. 

On motion ot Mr. Homer, it was — 

Voted, To accept the proposition of the Brookline Gas 
Light Company to light the streets of the town at twenty -five 
dollars per annum for each lamp post, and that not more 
than 20 lamps be provided for the use of the town. (File 
G, 41.) 



Special Meeting, December 26, 1853. 449 

Voted, That a committee of five be chosen by nomination 
at large to cause lamp posts to be placed at such points on 
"Washington, Harvard, and any other streets as they think 
best. 

Messrs. John C. Abbott, William Jameson, Augustus 
Allen, Abraham H. Lambert and John Dane were then 
nominated and chosen to be a committee of five to carry into 
effect the foregoing vote. 

Voted, To lay the Third Article on the table. 

The Fourth Article was then taken up, and it was — 

Voted, That the town cause to be printed for the use of 
the inhabitants a list of the taxes assessed within the town 
for the last three years, with the names of the tax-payers 
and the amounts assessed, respectively. 

Voted, That the Town Clerk carry out the provisions of 
the foregoing vote. 

The Fifth Article in the warrant then coming up, on 
motion of George B. Blake it was — 

Voted, That Messrs. William Dearborn, David E. Griggs 
and Bela Stoddard be a committee with full powers to confer 
with T. P. Chandler and to agree upon such terms of settle- 
ment as may seem most just for the inhabitants of the town, 
and to construct a drain or water-course as may seem fit, and 
generally to have every power to a final and full settlement 
of the same. 

Article Six being taken up, it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to exam- 
ine that part of Boylston street lying in front of the estate 
of Henry Lee, and report thereon at the March meeting to 
be held in March, 1854. 

The following: gentlemen were then nominated and chosen 
to constitute said committee : Messrs. Sam'l Philbrick, J. 
Davenport, James Bartlett. 

Voted, That the Town Hall be lighted outside and inside 
with gas, and that the subject be- left to the committee on 
lighting the streets to carry the same into effect. 

The Seventh Article coming up, the committee on procur- 
ing a lot of land for the Middle District school-house made 
the following report : 

29 






450 Brookline Town Records. 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed by the town on the 22nd of September last 
(consisting of the Selectmen and School Committee,) to select and lay 
out land from the estate of Mr. Warren White to enlarge the present 
school-house lot of the Middle District, ask leave to report that by 
a vote of the town, passed at the same meeting, they were instructed to 
change the location of said lot if Mr. White should, within thirty days 
from the date of said vote, procure and cause to be conveyed to the town 
a lot that should be satisfactory to the committee. Mr. White, within 
the time specified, offered your committee a lot of land on Brighton 
street, but owing to the locality and unsuitableness of the land, they 
deemed it inexpedient to purchase it. Since then a proposition has been 
received from Mr. Stephen G. Bass, offering to sell the town a lot of 
land in the immediate vicinity of the present school-house on conditions 
and terms as follows, viz. : 

That he will sell the town a lot of land on the opposite side of the road 
containing one acre, the price to be two thousand dollars, and take the 
lot the present school-house now stands upon at the same price ; the 
school-house to be built on the back part of the lot, which will be about 
20 rods from the road, and a tight fence 8 ft. high made and maintained. 

The committee, after having the subject under consideration, did not 
deem it expedient to purchase of Mr. Bass under those restrictions, but 
they would recommend to the town to purchase the lot offered by Mr. 
Bass, and sell the land the present school-house now stands on, provided 
he will allow the new school-house to be built Avithin 10 rods of the road 
and enclosed with a suitable fence. (File G, No. 42.) 

Signed by J. Davenport, W. H. Shailer, 

D. S. Coolidge, Samuel Philbrick, 

James Bartlett, W. P. Atkinson, 

Selectmen of Brookline. School Committee of Brookline. 

Voted, That the report be recommitted to the same com- 
mittee, and that they be instructed to purchase the lot on 
the best terms they can. 

The Selectmen, to whom was committed the business of 
selecting, laying out and purchasing lots for two new school- 
houses, one to be situated on or near Pleasant street, and the 
other in the vicinity of Pearl place, reported progress, as 

follows, viz. : 

REPORT. 

The Selectmen would report that, agreeably to the vote of the town 
passed Sept. the 22d, that they have selected, laid out and purchased two 
lots whereon to erect new school-houses, one in the vicinity of Pleas- 
ant street, and the other in the vicinity of Pearl place ; that they have 
attended to the duty assigned them, and have selected and bargained for 
a lot for the North District, situated between Harvard, Pleasant and 
Beacon streets, lying in a triangular form and containing about 22,000 
square feet, at 12 cts. per foot. They have also bargained for a lot of 



Special Meeting, December 26, 1853. 451 

land for the school-house in the vicinity of Pearl place, situated on Davis 
street, in Pearl place, and containing about 14,000 square feet, at 9 cts. 
per foot. As no writings have been given, they would now lay the 
matter before the citizens so that if they are not satisfied with the pro- 
ceedings taken, there would now be an opportunity to take further 
action thereon. (File G, No. 43.) 

Signed by J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Voted, That the report be accepted, and that the Select- 
men be authorized to close the bargains for the lots named 
and procure the necessary papers. 

Voted, That the Third Article be taken from the table. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be discharged from the further 
consideration of the topographical survey of the town, as by 
a vote passed at the adjourned annual meeting, held April 
the 4th, A. D. 1853, and recorded on the [431] page. 

On motion of George Griggs, it was — 

Voted, That a committee be appointed to report a plan 
and the probable expense of an accurate topographical survey 
of the town by a skillful engineer, and a plan to be drawn 
and submitted to the town by him, showing where and at 
what grades streets and sidewalks can most advantageously be 
made and public squares or parks reserved. (File G, No. 44.) 

Voted, That the following gentlemen, viz., Messrs. George 
Griggs, William I. Bowditch and W. P. Atkinson, be such 
committee. 

The Eighth Article then coming up for consideration, it was 

Voted, That the sum of $700 be appropropriated for the 
lighting- of the streets and Town Hall with gas. 

Voted, That a sum not exceeding $1000 be appropriated 
for the use of the committee who were chosen to consider 
and act upon the subject matter of the Fifth Article. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the town be authorized to 
borrow the necessary sums for the foregoing appropriations, 
and give the note of the town therefor, the sum borrowed 
not to exceed $2000. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



452 Brookline Town Records. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 20, 1854. 



'[seal 

[SEAL 

f SEAT- 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

lo either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the twentieth day 
of March, current, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which 
time and place the polls will be opened for the following 
purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

Third. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

Fourth. To hear and act upon the report of town officers and com- 
mittees. 

Fifth. To revise the Jury List prepared by the Selectmen. 

Sixth. To see if the town will cause a well to be dug for the use of 
the High School. 

Seventh. To see if the town will cause a flag-staff to be erected in 
front of the engine-house. 

Eighth. To act upon the request of Thomas B. Hall in regard to stop- 
ping out the tide-waters from the new county road. 

Ninth. To see if the town will sell Isaac Taylor a piece of the town's 
land in rear of his estate on Harvard street. 

Tenth. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to prosecute all 
violations of the law respecting the sale of intoxicating drinks, and 
make special appropriation to cover the expenses of the same. 

Eleventh. To hear and act upon the remonstrance of John McCormack 
and others to the Selectmen and School Committee, that the Selectmen 
proceed no further in purchasing a lot for a school-house on Pearl place, 
which the Selectmen were instructed and authorized to purchase by a 
vote of the town passed Dec. 26, 1853, and that the subject be brought 
before the town again. 

Twelfth. To see if the town will accept and allow the town way as 
laid out, altered and widened by the Selectmen, running from Walnut 
street across to Boylston street, by taking land of Samuel A. Walker. 

Thirteenth. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
deemed necessary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing 
year. 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 453 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this eighth 
day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred 
and fifty-four. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookl hie. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 16, 1854. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the 
last and usual place of abode of every legal voter in said town of 
Brookline. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. -45.) Constable of Brookline. 

A true copy of the warrant and return thereon. 

Attest: B. F. Baker, 

Town Clerk of Brookline. 

Benj'n F. Baker, Town Clerk, called the meeting to order 
on the afternoon of Monday, March the twentieth, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fift3'-four, 
at precisely ten minutes past one o'clock, and presided dur- 
ing the choice of a Moderator by ballot, having previously 
read the warrant and return thereon to the meeting. 

At the first ballot the meeting elected John Howe by a 
unanimous vote. After waiting some time for Mr. Howe 
and he not appearing, it was moved to reconsider the vote 
whereby Mr. Howe was elected chairman, which was unani- 
mously carried. 

The 'meeting then proceeded in the choice of Moderator, 
and Messrs. William P. Atkinson, George F. Homer, Marshall 
Stearns and Ginery Twichell were elected in succession, but 
each declined serving, and were excused by the meeting. 

At the sixth ballot the meeting made choice of William I. 
Bowditch for Moderator, who took the chair, and calling the 
meeting to order, prayers were offered by the Rev. Frederick 
N. Knapp. 



454 Brookline Town Records. 

The ballots for Town Clerk being called for by the Mod- 
erator, the whole number cast was one hundred and seven- 
teen. William P. Atkinson had forty-seven ; B. F. Baker 
had seventy, and was declared elected Town Clerk for the 
ensuing year, and was sworn to the faithful discharge of the 
duties of the office, by the Moderator. 

Voted, That the remainder of the Second Article be laid 
on the table and the Third Article be taken up, viz. : 
To hear the report of town officers and committees. 

J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented the 
following report : 

REPORT ON GUIDE-POSTS AND GUIDE-BOARDS. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen submit the 
following report of the places where guide posts and boards are erected 
and maintained : 

There is a guide post and board thereon standing at the junction of 
Boylston with Washington streets, directing to Brighton and Newton 
Upper Falls. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, 
Worcester, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Brighton streets, directing to 
Brighton. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton 
Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Heath and Warren streets, directing to Newton, 
Dedham, and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Clyde and Warren streets, directing to Dedham 
and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Clyde and Newton streets, directing to Brighton, 
Newton, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Grove and Newton streets, directiug to Roxbury 
and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Grove and South streets, directing to Brighton. 

One at the corner of South and Newton streets, directing to Dedham, 
Newton, and Brighton. 

One at corner of Warren and Cottage streets, directing to Dedham 
and Jamaica Plain. 

One at corner of Warren and Walnut streets, directing to Jamaica 
Plain. 

One at corner of Washington and Harvard streets, directing to Brigh- 
ton and Cambridge. 

One at corner of Sewell's avenue and Harvard street, directing to 
Cambridge and Cambridgeport. 

The Selectmen recommend that guide-posts and boards be erected at 
the corner of Washington and Beacon streets, with indexes directing to 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 



455 



Boston and Newton Centre and Brighton and Roxbury. Also, that a 
post and board be erected at the corner of Beacon and Harvard streets, 
directing to Cambridge and Cambridgeport ; and as a number of the 
posts and boards are in bad repair, we recommend the appropriation of 
fifty dollars for the erection and repair of the same. 
All of which is respectfully submitted by the Selectmen. 

Jer'l Davexport, 
David S. Coolidge, 
James Bartlett, 

Selectmen of Brookli)>>-. 
Brooklixe, March 20, 1854. (File G, No. 46.) 



Voted, To accept the report. 

The report of the School Committee, which had been 
printed and distributed, was then presented and accepted. 
(File G, No. 47.) 

Voted, To accept the Auditors' report which had been 
printed and distributed. (File G, No. 48.) 

Moses Withington, the Town Treasurer, then presented 
and read the following report : 

TREASURER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 1, 1854. 

Receipts. 
Whole amount of receipts from all sources .... $25,577 54 
Deduct payment of loan to the Bank of Brighton . . . 2,000 00 



Whole amount of available funds received 
Expenditures. 

Whole amount expended, including payment of loan to Bank 



of Brighton 



Whole amount of receipts 
" " expenses 

Leaving a balance in the Treasury of 

Debts of the Town. 



825,577 54 
24.417 54 



$23,577 ."4 



$24,417 54 



$1,160 00 



To whom Payable. 



Date of Note. 



When Payable. 



Gideon Viual, W. I. Bow 

ditch, guardian 

Commonwealth Mass — 

C J. & G. A. Taylor.... 

James Bartlett 



July 22, 1851. 
Oct. 17,1851. 

Aug.12,1851 
May 22, 1852 
Jan. 16,1854 



Julv22,1856. 
Oct. 17, 1854. 
" " 1855. 
Aug.12,1856. 
May 22, 1857. 
On demand. 



$2,000 @ 
2,000 
2,000 
3,000 
3,500 
2,660 40 



Rate of Int. 



6 pr. cent. 



Total ain't of town debt, $15,160.40 



456 Brookline Town Records. 

The Treasurer holds one note for the town for $1000, given by Syl- 
vester Kimball, dated May 27th, 1852, payable in three years, with interest 
semi-annually at the rate of six per cent. Respectfully submitted. 

Brookline, March 1st, 1854. Moses Withixgtox, 

(File G, 49.) Treasurer. 

Voted, To accept the report. 

The committee appointed by the town at a special meet- 
ing held the 22d of Sept., A. D. 1853, to consider the 
proposition of David Sears and others in relation to grading 
a sidewalk and planting shade-trees on that part of Beacon 
street lying between the junction of said street with the 
Mill Dam and the nearest upland, presented the following 
report, which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The committee chosen by the town of Brookline, in September last, 
with instructions to consider the proposition made by the Hon. David 
Sears and others, having given the subject due consideration, now report, 
that said proposition, if accepted by the town, requires the further con- 
struction of the embankments to be made of gravel, eight feet in width, 
on each side of the new county road called Beacon street across the 
whole plat of salt march, and raised to a height sufficient for planting 
trees above the reach of the highest spring tides, which would be higher 
than the grade of the present road, and would also require the grading 
of the road to be raised still higher. Another railing on each side across 
said marshes, and several hundred ornamental trees, amply supplied with 
loam to secure their growth would also be 'required, all which would 
require an expenditure of several thousand dollars. And inasmuch as 
the suit which has been pending before the Supreme Judicial Court 
between the Worcester Roilroad Corporation and the County Commis- 
sioners is yet undecided, and may in its termination require the erection 
of a bridge which would change the grade of said road to a considerable 
distance on each side of its crossing, your committee are of opinion that 
any action in favor of said proposition at this time would be premature. 

(Signed,) Samuel Philbrick. 
Jesse Bird. 
William Asiuxwall. 

Dated, Brookline, March 20, 1854. (File G, Xo. 50.) 

George Griggs, chairman of the committee chosen by the 
town at a special meeting held on the 26th day of December, 
1853, to take into consideration the subject of having a 
survey made of the roads and the laying out of new roads in 
prospective, presented the following report, which was 
accepted : 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 457 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed on the twenty-sixth of December last, upon 
the subject of a survey of the town, &c, ask leave to report, and call the 
attention of their fellow-citizens to some reasons for making the subject 
which has been referred to them one of prompt and immediate action 
by the town. The increased demand for land for building-lots and 
improvements in the estates in the town, occasion the removal of the 
old walls and fences which have for many years formed the boundary 
line between the roads and the lands of private owners. In this manner 
the highway is liable to be encroached upon when new walls and fences 
are erected, and without a correct plan of the streets showing the actual 
present side lines, it is always difficult and in many instances will soon 
be impossible to determine what were the original limits of the ways. 
If a correct plan of each street, with its side lines well defined, were 
known to be in existence and in the possession of the town, it might 
check the disposition, if any such exists, or remove the temptation to 
eke out one's scanty acres by protruding fences and walls into the high- 
ways. By having lines for proposed widenings indicated on a plan of 
the streets, owners who are building new fences or laying out their 
grounds adjoining highways, and who arc willing to contribute towards 
the public improvements by dedicating to public use a portion of their 
lands when needed for widening the roads, would know where to set 
their walls and fences so as to form a part of a regular and uniform 
plan. The advantage of having profiles of every street accompanying 
the plans will be understood when we consider the necessity of having 
streets provided with suitable gutters, drains and culverts for the proper 
disposal of the water. The propriety of having the grades of streets 
determined, and the widenings made as soon as conveniently may be, 
after the surveys and plans are completed, will be apparent when we 
reflect that to widen and grade a street after buildings have been placed 
near it is frequently the cause of damage or inconvenience to the owners 
or occupants of the building, and consequently, by the increased claim 
for land damages, the cost of making such improvements is every year 
becoming greater as the town becomes more densely inhabited. 

The committee have employed three engineers to take levels and make 
surveys, plans and profiles. The plans and profiles are herewith sub- 
mitted to the town as specimens of the manner in which they would 
recommend that the work be done. In regard to the cost, the committee 
were not able to procure exact estimates. The nearest approximation 
they can make of what it would cost to have all the streets, public and 
private, surveyed, and plans and profiles made similar to those already 
done, and to have them all reduced and connected together so as to make 
a correct map of the town, is that from two thousand to twenty-five 
hundred dollars would be required. This sum, it is thought, will cover 
the expense also of placing stone monuments at the angles in the roads 
and of striking off Ave hundred copies of the corrected map of the town. 
They therefore recommend that a committee be appointed to employ an 
engineer, or engineers, to make a survey and plans and profiles of the 
streets of the town in a manner similar to that of School street and 



458 Brookline Town Records. 

Pleasant street, and to make a map from such surveys, indicating on the 
map such new streets and public parks or lots as have already been 
established or projected, or, as in his opinion, Avill be needed, and when 
completed, have copies of the map struck off for the use of the inhab- 
itants of the town upon payment of such prices as the Selectmen of the 
town shall by vote determine, and that an appropriation of twenty-five 
hundred dollars be made to carry this plan into execution. 

(Signed,) Geokge Griggs. 
"W. P. Atkinson. 

Brookline. March 20, 1854. (File G, No. 51.) 

The following vote of thanks was then read by the chair- 
man, and, on motion of Mr. Samuel Philbrick, was unani- 
mously passed : 

Voted, That the thanks of the town be presented to the 
Rev. William H. Shailer for his long and faithful services as 
a member of the School Committee of this town. 

Voted, That the Town Clerk send to Mr. Shailer an 
attested copy of this vote. 

The committee appointed to examine that part of Boylston 
street lying in front of Henry Lee's estate, made the follow- 
ing report, which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The committee chosen by the town of Brookline, in December last, 
with instructions to examine that part of Boylston street lying in front 
of the estate of Henry Lee and make report concerning its condition at 
this meeting, have attended to that appointment, and are of opinion that 
the safety and convenience of public travelling require that, for a dis- 
tance of about 17 rods, the bank wall should be removed and relaid and 
the embankment widened about ten feet, with a suitable culvert and 
water-course and new railing ; and your committee recommend an appro- 
priation for that purpose, and the appointment of a committee to carry 
the same into effect without delay. 

Samuel Philbrick. 
J. Davenport. 
James Bartlett. 
Brookline, 20 March, 1854. (File G, No. 52.) 

Voted, That the same gentlemen who made the report be 
and hereby are appointed a committee to carry the recom- 
mendation of widening Boylston street into effect. 

The Second Article was then taken up, and the meeting 

Voted, To choose three Selectmen for the ensuing year. 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 459 

The whole number of votes cast was one hundred and 
sixty-one. Scattering 28. James Bartlett had 133, David 
S. Coolidge had 107, John C. Abbott had 122, and they 
were declared duly elected Selectmen of the town of Brook- 
line for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose three Principal and three Assistant 
Assessors for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That a committee of three be chosen, to retire to 
nominate a list of three names for the office of Assistant 
Assessors, 

— and Messrs. George B. Blake, Sam'l Philbrick and T. E. 
Francis were nominated and chosen, who retired to attend 
to that duty, pending which the meeting proceeded to vote 
for the three Principal Assessors, with the following result : 

Whole number of votes was one hundred and nine. W. 
A. Humphrey had 105, A. W. Seamans had 88, James Rob- 
inson had 77, and were chosen Assessors for the ensuing 
year. 

The committee appointed to nominate Assistant Assessors 
reported to the meeting the names of Messrs. Charles Stearns, 
Jr., Abijah W. Goddard and Charles B. Dana. 

The report was accepted. 

The meeting then proceeded to vote for three Assistant 
Assessors. The whole number of ballots was sixty-nine. 
The result of the balloting was as follows : 

E. C. Emerson had 58. William H. Jameson had 44. 

C. B. Dana had 32. A. \\ . Goddard had 32. 

Charles Stearns, Jr., had 11. Geo. B. Blake had 1G. 

Charles TV. Scudder had 11. M. D. Parker had 3. 

The Chair declared Messrs. Emerson and Jameson chosen, 
and as Messrs. Goddard and Dana had the same number 
each, the meeting would fill the vacancy occasioned by the 
vote standing the same for each. 

Messrs. Goddard and Dana both desiring that their names 
might be dropped, the result was the choice of George F. 
Homer, so that the gentlemen elected Assistant Assessors 
are E. C. Emerson, W. H. Jameson, George F. Homer. 

Voted, To take up the Third Article and proceed to bring 
in their votes for County Treasurer, 



460 Brookline Town Records. 

— and the whole number cast was seventy-six, all of which 
were for George Ellis of Dedham (76). 

Voted, To choose five School Committeemen for the ensu- 
ing year. 

The whole number of votes cast was one hundred and 
forty-four (144). 

Rev. John S. Stone had 53. Mation M. Smith had 37. 

William P. Atkinson had Q6. T. E. Francis had 33. 

Edw. A. Wild had 50. T. B. Hayward had 34. 

Rev. Frederick N. Knapp had 53. Edw. F. Head had 31. 

Rev. Matson M. Smith had 57. S. A. Shurtleft" bad 18. 

D. S. Kendall had 1. A. Winsor had 1. 

— and the five first-named gentlemen were declared duly 
elected School Committee for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be Overseers of the Poor. 

Voted, To choose three Surveyors of Highways for the 
ensuing year. 

Whole number of votes cast was fifty-seven (57). Wil- 
liam J. Griggs had 57, Thomas C. Quimby had 57, Augus- 
tus Allen had 54, and they were chosen Surveyors of High- 
ways for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose five Constables. 

Whole number of votes was ninety-two (92). Augustus 
Allen had 92, Hugh M. Sanborn had 88, Elisha Stone had 
92, A. H. Clapp had 85, Chas. Smith had 48, and they were 
chosen Constables for the ensuing year, and Messrs. Augus- 
tus Allen, Elisha Stone, H. M. Sanborn and A. H. Clapp 
being present, were sworn to the faithful discharge of their 
duties by the chairman of the meeting. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, To choose fifteen Field Drivers for the ensuing 
year, 

— and the following-named gentlemen were nominated and 
chosen, viz. : Field Drivers — Joshua Sears, George Griggs, 
Isaac Farrington, David H. Daniels, Moses Jones, Jr., Wil- 
liam H. Jameson, Charles Burrell, William O. Churchill, 
Ira A. Dutton, Marshall Russell, Rufus S. Allen, Chas. G. 
Colbath, Simon Warren, Jerathmael Davenport, Horace 
James. 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 461 

Montgomery D. Parker and Abijah W. Goddard were 
chosen Fence Viewers for the ensuing year. 

Elisha Stone, J. Anson Guild, William D. Coolidge, were 
chosen Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of "Wood and 
Bark. 

Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

The following-named gentlemen were chosen Prudential 
School Committee for the ensuing year : 

Charles Stearns, Jr., for the North District. 

Joseph L. White for the Middle District. 

Chas. G. Colbath for the South District. 

Jerathmael Davenport for the High, Grammar, and Pri- 
mary School in the village. 

Jesse Bird, Samuel Philbriek, Harrison Fay, were chosen 
Cemetery Committee. 

Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder, Edw. Atkinson, 
were chosen Auditors. 

Augustus Allen, Charles W. Tolman, John Colby, Oliver 
Cousens, Moses Jones, Jr., were chosen Fire Wards. 

The check-list was used during the voting by ballot, and 
each name was found and checked before their votes were 
deposited. (File G, No. 53.) 

List of Jurors prepared bt the Selectmen and approved by the 
Town at their Annual Meeting, held March the 20th, A. I) .1854. 

Names. 

William P. Atkinson David S. Coolidge Abraham H. Lambert 

James Bartlett Timothy Corey James Robinson 

George Babcock George Craft Charles W. Scudder 

Benj. F. Baker Robert S. Davis Augustus W. Seamans 

Stephen G. Bass William Dearborn Edward R. Seccomb 

Robert Barnett Elijah C. Emerson Marshall Stearns 

William Bird Abijah W. Goddard Simeon Taylor 

George B. Blake Clark L. Haynes John W. Turner 

Benj. Bradley, Linden pi. Charles Heath Simon Warren 

. Henry W. Carr Elijah Hersey Joseph L. White 

Nathaniel G. Chapin Willard A. Humphrey Frederick J. Williams 

William Churchill William H. Jameson Howard S. Williams 

Samuel Clark Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 

Voted, To lay the Sixth Article on the table. 
Voted, To to take up the Seventh Article, viz. : 

To see if the town will cause a flag-staff to be erected in front of the 
engine-house. 



462 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That a committee of three be chosen to erect a 
flag-staff in front of the engine-house, the cost not to exceed 
seventy-five dollars. 

Messrs. Augustus Allen, Nathaniel Lyford, William W. 
Clement, were chosen to constitute that committee. 

The Eighth Article coming up, it was — 

Voted, That the subject be referred to a committee of 
three, to take the subject into consideration and report at 
some future meeting, 

— and Messrs. Samuel Philbrick, Jerathmael Davenport, 
George B. Blake, were chosen to constitute said committee. 

Article Ninth coming up, viz. : 

To see if the town will sell Isaac Taylor a piece of the town's land in 
rear of his estate on Harvard street, 

— it was — 

Voted, That the subject be left with the Selectmen, with 
full power to act in the premises, and to sell to Mr. Taylor 
if they think fit. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed 
to inquire into the expediency of selling the remainder of 
the town's land lying between the abutters on Harvard street 
and the new town-way laid out from Mechanic place to 
School street. 

Article Tenth coming up, it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be instructed to prosecute all 
violations of the law respecting the sale of intoxicating 
drinks. 

Voted, That two hundred dollars be appropriated to defray 
the expenses of the same. 

Article Eleventh taken up, concerning the remonstrance of 
John McCormack and others, it was — 

Voted, That the vote passed December the 26th, 1853, 
instructing and authorizing the Selectmen to purchase a cer- 
tain lot of land in Pearl place for a school-house lot, be and 
hereby is rescinded. 

Voted, That the selection of a site for a school-house in 
or near Pearl place, be left to the School and Building Com- 
mittees. 



Annual Meeting, March 20, 1854. 463 

The Twelfth Article coming up, the Selectmen presented 
the following report : 

REPORT. 
At the request of several of the inhabitants of the town, the Selectmen, 
after giving clue notice according to law to all persons interested, laid 
out and widened the way leading from Walnut street to Boylston street, 
beginning at the southeasterly corner of said way, thence west on said 
way twenty feet eight inches, thence running fourteen feet four inches 
on land of Sam'l A. Walker, thence running northeasterly ninety feet six 
inches to Boylston street, thence running easterly thirteen feet on land 
of said Walker, thence easterly across said way to land of Royal Wood- 
ward, Jr., thence running southeasterly on land of said Woodward and 
Benjamin Bradley to the first-named point. The land taken for widening 
said way is eleven hundred and forty-seven feet, all belonging to Samuel 
A. Walker, for which the Selectmen have awarded said Walker twenty- 
five cents per foot, amounting to two hundred eighty-six 75-100 dollars. 
All of Avhich is respectfully submitted. 

J. Davenport, 
D. S. Coolidge, 
James B artlett, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 
Brookline, March 20, 1854. (File G, No. 54.) 

Voted, Not to accept the report, 
— Mr. Eben Wright giving notice that he would present a 
substitute that would be a better arrangement. 

Voted, To adjourn to Monday afternoon, April the third, 
at three o'clock in the afternoon, in this place. 
Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant and delivered the 
same to Constable Elisha Stone, requiring him to summon 
all officers chosen, to appear before the Town Clerk within 
seven days from the reception of such summons and be sworn 
to their respective offices, where an oath is required by law, 
or to signify their acceptance or refusal of the office to which 
they were respectively chosen. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

(File G, No. 55.) Town Clerk. 



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Brookline Town Records. 



Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared the undermentioned persons 
and were sworn before me at the times set against their 
names, or signified their refusal or acceptance of the office 
to which they had been severally chosen. 

B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



27 March. 
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1 April. 
28 March. 
28 
28 
28 
28 
22 
24 
24 
24 
27 
20 
20 
20 
20 
20 
28 
28 
20 
22 

25 

25 
28 

24 
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21 
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James Bartlett sworn Selectman and accepted Overseers Poor. 
David S. Coolidge " " " " " " 

J. C. Abbott 
W. A. Humphrey, A. W. Seamans, James Robinson, sworn 

Principal Assessors. 
Elijah C. Emerson, W. H. Jameson, George F. Homer, sworn 

Assistant Assessors. 
William J. Griggs sworn Highway Surveyor. 
Thomas C. Quimby " " " 

Augustus Allen declined serving Highway Surveyor. 
Charles Smith (Constable), Charles Smith (Pound Keeper). 
Joshua Sears sworn Field Driver. 

George Griggs " " " 

Isaac Farrington " " " 

David H. Daniels " " " 

William O. Churchill " 
Ira A. Dutton 
Marshall Russell 
Simon Warren " " 

Moses Jones, Jr., " " " 

William H. Jameson " " " 

Charles Burrell " 

Chas. G. Colbath 
Rufus S. Allen 

Jr. Davenport declined serving Field Driver. 
Horace James 

Moses Withington, Treasurer and Collector. Sworn 20th. 
Abijah W. Goddard, Montgomery D. Parker, sworn Fence 

Viewers. 
Elisha Stone sworn Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of 

Wood and Bark. 
William D. Coolidge. 
J. Anson Guild sworn Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of 

Wood and Bark. 
John S. Stone (D. D.) accepted School Committee. 
Eclw. A. Wild 

Matsou M. Smith, Rev. " " " 

Frederick N. Knapp, Rev. " " " 

William P. Atkinson " •' " 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 3, 1854. 465 

28 March. Charles Stearns, Jr., accepted Prudential School Committee. 
24 " Joseph L. "White " " " " 

27 " J. Davenport " " " " 

27 " Sam'l Philbrick accepted Cemetery Committee. 

27 " Jesse Bird " " 

Harrison Fay. 

28 " Chas D. Head accepted Auditor. 

21 " Chas. W. Scudder " 

22 " Edward Atkinson " " 

28 " Augustus Allen accepted Fire Ward. 

24 " Charles W. Tolnian " 

27 •• Oliver Cousens " " " 

John Colby. 
20 " Moses Jones, Jr. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 3, 1854. 

Pursuant to the adjournment of the twentienth day of 
March, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline met in the 
Town Hall in said town, on the third day of April, in the 
year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at three of the clock 
in the afternoon. 

The Moderator called the meeting to order and read a list 
of the officers chosen at the last meeting who had not been 
qualified or who had declined to serve. 

W. A. Humphrey (sworn by the Town Clerk,) and 
Frederick J. Williams were chosen Principal Assessors ; 
Elijah C. Emerson, Assistant Assessor (sworn by the 
Moderator). 

Mr. Williams declining to serve, was excused, and Jerath- 
mael Davenport was elected in his stead, and was sworn to 
the duties by the Moderator. 

Thomas C. Quimby and Charles Warren (of Walnut 
street) were chosen Surveyors of Highways. Mr. Quimby 
was sworn by Moderator. 

Voted, To rescind the vote of the town passed at the last 
meeting to choose five Constables for the ensuing year, and 
that four be the number. 
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466 Brookline Town Records. 

H. M. Sanborn was chosen Pound Keeper. Accepted. 

H. M. Sanborn, Chas. W. Tolman, James Driscoll, were 
chosen Field Drivers, and sworn by the Moderator. 

Voted, To rescind the vote of the town passed at the last 
meeting to choose fifteen Field Drivers, and that thirteen be 
the number. 

Abijah W. Goddard was chosen Fence Viewer. Sworn. 

Harrison Fay was chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Voted, To rescind the vote passed at the last meeting to 
choose five Fire Wards, and that four be the number. 

Voted, To take the Sixth Article from the table. 

After some discussion upon the subject, it was, on motion 
of Mr. James Robinson — 

Voted, To lay the Sixth Article upon the table until the 
appropriations come up. 

Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the Chair 
to procure surveys, plans and profiles of the streets and 
ways of the town, and that one thousand dollars be appro- 
priated to defray the expenses thereof. 

The committee appointed by the Chair were Messrs. George 
Griggs, John C. Abbott, W. P. Atkinson, James Bartlett, 
David S. Coolidge, committee on plans and profiles of the 
streets. 

Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the 
ensuing year, to wit : 

For the support of the poor $1,400 00 

schools G,000 00 

" highways 1,700 00 

books of reference 300 00 

widening Boylston street in front of Henry Lee's estate 300 00 
making road by Town Hall, widening School street, and 

land damages 500 00 

making drain through School street, and settlement of 

dirticulties therewith connected GOO 00 

county tax 5,100 00 

fire department 500 00 

to pay to the collector for collecting taxes . . . 200 00 

abatement of taxes 400 00 

town officers 1,000 00 

repairs of town buildings 200 00 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 3, 1854. 467 



tee 



Amount brought foncard ------ 

For repairs of High school-house, under direction of the 

Selectmen 

extinction of town debt ..... 
interest on town debt ..... 

cemetery 

expense of gas in Town Hall and streets 

music in schools, to be expended by School Commit 

maps for the use of the Assessors 

contingencies 

erection of guide-posts and guide-boards 

use of the Selectmen in prosecuting violations of the 

liquor law 

increase the salary of the Town Clerk . 

copying and printing tax-list for the three past years . 

Add appropriations made, to be raised by taxation the pres- 
ent year, on pages [471, 474] of §3,000 and $800 . 



fl8,2on 00 


500 


00 


4,660 


40 


850 


00 


180 


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Voted, To indefinitely postpone the Sixth Article. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed 
to supply the High school with water. 

Mr. William A. Wellman presented the following votes to 
the meeting, to wit : 

Voted, To choose a committee of five citizens, who are 
hereby entrusted with full power and are hereby instructed 
forthwith to select a site for a school-house upon the town's 
land between School and Washington streets, and to grade 
and prepare the same for building, the lot of land to be as 
near one acre in quantity as may be convenient. 

Voted, That said committee forthwith erect upon the lot 
to be thus selected by them, upon such plans as they may 
adopt, a school-house of sufficient capacity to accommodate 
not less than three hundred pupils, and that they furnish the 
same with suitable fixtures, furniture and apparatus. 

Voted, To appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
for the above-mentioned object. 

Voted, That of the said sum there be raised five thousand 
dollars by taxation the present year, and that the residue be 
borrowed by the Treasurer as the same may be called for by 
the Building Committee. 



468 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow for the 
above-named objects a sum not exceeding ten thousand dol- 
lars, and to give therefor the note or notes of the town, on 
such terms and in such sums as may be most convenient. 

The subject thus brought before the meeting was discussed 
by Messrs. W. A. Wellman, Geo. B. Blake, Geo. F. Homer, 
James Robinson, Samuel Philbrick, W. P. Atkinson, Mar- 
shall Stearns and Geo. Griggs. 

The question being then taken on the first vote, it was 
adopted by a large majority. 

The second vote was taken up and adopted by a large 
majority. 

The third vote was also taken up and adopted, and the 
said sum of fifteen thousand dollars was appropriated for the 
purposes set forth in the votes preceding. 

The question being taken on the fourth vote, it was adopt- 
ed, and voted that the sum of five thousand dollars be raised 
the present year by taxation, and that the Treasurer borrow 
the residue. 

The fifth vote was then taken up, and the Treasurer was 
authorized, by the vote of the meeting, to borrow for the 
above-named objects the sum of ten thousand dollars, and 
to give therefor the note or notes of the town, on such times 
and in such sums as may be found most convenient. 

Voted, That the Building Committee be appointed by the 
Chair, 

— and the Chair appointed Messrs. John C. Abbott, William 
Bramhall, Thomas Parsons, William P. Atkinson, George 
F. Homer, Building Committee on new school-house on 
School street. 

Voted, That the money appropriated by the town for 
various purposes, including the appropriation for making 
and repairing highways and townways, be assessed, after 
deducting the balance in the treasury and the probable 

receipts for the ensuing year, amounting to the sum of , 

upon the polls and estates, real and personal, of the inhabit- 
ants, resident and non-resident, of the town, and collected 
as the town charges are usually assessed and collected. 



Special Meeting, April 17, 1854. 469 

Voted, That the Selectmen cause the bell to be rung: at 
seven o'clock in the morning instead of six, as it is rung at 
present. 
Dissolved. 

Attest: BENJ'N F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 17, 1854. 



WARRANT. 

rsEAL.j Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Toicn of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the seventeenth day 
of April, current, at seven of the clock in the evening, for 
the following purposes, viz. : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Si cond. To see if the town will erect a new school-house on the town's 
land between Washington and School streets, and raise and appropriate 
the money necessary therefor, and to ratify the votes passed on said sub- 
ject at the town meeting holden on Monday, April the third, in the year 
eighteen hundred and fifty-four. 

Third. To see if the town will purchase land for a new school-house 
near the Town Hall, and erect a school-house thereon, and raise and 
appropriate the money necessary therefor. 

Fourth. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow 
money in anticipation of taxes. 

Fifth. To see if the town will pass any votes concerning sidewalks 
and edgestones, and appropriate and raise money for the same. 



470 Brookline Town Records. 

Sixth. To see if the town will appropriate and raise money for the 
completion of the school-houses on Harvard and Heath streets, and for 
the purchase of land for a school-house in the village and the erection of 
a school-house thereon. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals, this fifth da}' of April, in 
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-four. 

James Bartlett, 
John C. Abbott, 
David S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, April 12, 1854. 

Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the time and place 
and for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed notice of the 
same at the last and usual place of abode of every legal voter in said 
town. (File G. No. 56.) 

Elisha Stone. 
Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said town, on 
the evening of Monday, April the seventeenth, in the year 
of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and were called 
to order by the Town Clerk at five minutes past seven o'clock, 
who then proceeded to read the warrant and return. 

The First Article in the warrant being then brought before 
the meeting, it was — 

1 'oted, That the Moderator be chosen by nomination from 
the meeting, 

— and Mr. George F. Homer was nominated- and chosen 
Moderator, and took the chair. 

The Second Article was then taken up, being as follows : 

To see if the town will erect a new school-house on the town's land 
between Washington and School streets, and raise and appropriate money 
necessary therefor, and to ratify the votes passed on said subject at the 
town meeting holden on Monday, April the third, in the year eighteen 
hundred and fifty-four, 



Special Meeting, April 17, 1854. 471 

— when the following votes were ottered by William I. Bow- 
ditch, and having been fully discussed, were severally adopt- 
ed by large majorities.' 

Voted, To choose a committee of five citizens who are 
hereby entrusted with full powers and are hereby instructed 
forthwith to select a site for a school-house upon the town's 
land between School and Washington streets, and to grade 
and prepare the same for building; the lot of land to be as 
near one acre in quantity as may be convenient. 

Voted, That said committee forthwith erect upon the lot 
thus selected by them, upon such plans as they may adopt, 
a school-house of sufficient capacity to accommodate not less 
than two hundred and forty pupils, and that they furnish the 
same with suitable fixtures, furniture and apparatus. 

Voted, To appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
for the above-named object. 

Voted, That of the above sum there be raised three thou- 
sand dollars by taxation the present year, and that the resi- 
due be borrowed by the Treasurer as the same may be called 
for by the Building Committee. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow for 
the above-named objects, twelve thousand dollars, and to 
give therefor the note or notes of the town, on such times 
and in such sums as may be found most convenient. 

Voted, To appoint as the committee to carry out the fore- 
going votes, Messrs. John C. Abbott, William Bramhall, 
Thomas Parsons, William P. Atkinson, George F. Homer, 
Building Committee for erecting a new school-house on the 
town's land. 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the Third Article in the 
warrant. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized 
to borrow, in anticipation of taxes, the sum of three thou- 
sand dollars. 

Voted, That whenever any of the abutters upon any of 
the highways of this town which the town is by law bound to 
maintain, shall furnish and pay for edgestones of hammered 
granite of uniform size, not less than five inches thick, satis- 



472 Brookline Town Records. 

factory to the Selectmen, the Selectmen shall, if they deem 
it advisable, make and furnish a suitable gravel sidewalk in 
front of the estates of such owners abutting upon said high- 
ways, and set the said edgestones thereon at the expense of 
the town. 

Voted, To appropriate and raise by taxation the present 
year for this purpose the sum of two hundred dollars. 

The Sixth Article being taken up, viz. : 

To see if the town will appropriate and raise money for the completion 
of the school-houses on Harvard and Heath streets, and for the purchase 
of land for a school-house in the village, and the erection of a school- 
house thereon, 

— it was — 

Voted, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars in addi- 
tion to the ten thousand dollars (heretofore appropriated) be 
appropriated for completing the purchase of the land for and 
the erection of the three Primary school-houses heretofore 
voted, and for grading and fencing the said school-house 
premises and for providing suitable fixtures, furniture and 
apparatus for said school-houses. 

Voted, That the said sum of twelve thousand dollars be 
borrowed by the Treasurer as the same may be called for by 
the Building Committee, and that the Treasurer give therefor 
the note or notes of the town on such times and in such sums 
as may be deemed advisable. 

Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, April 24, 1854. 473 



SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 24, 1854. 



WARRANT. 

"seIl! Common wealth of Massachusetts. 

SEAL.' 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the twenty-fourth 
day of April, current, at seven of the clock in the evening, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see what action the town will take in regard to destroying 
dogs. 

Third. To hear the report of any committees. 

Fourth. To till any vacancies thai may exist in town offices. 

Fifth. To raise and appropriate money to pay the interest on the 
increased town debt. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this eighteenth 
day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four. 

James Bartlett, 
d. s. coolidge, 
Selectmen of the Toim of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, April 20th, 1854. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of 
the town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes mentioned, 
by leaving a printed notice of the same at the last and usual place of resi- 
dence of every legal voter in said town of Brookline. 

(Eile G, No. 57.) Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 



474 Brookline Town Records. 

In pursuance with the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants 
of the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said town, 
on the evening of Monday, April the twenty-fourth, eigh- 
teen hundred and fifty-four, and were called to order by the 
Town Clerk at ten minutes past seven. 

The Town Clerk then read the warrant and the return 
thereon, and presided during the election of a Moderator by 
written ballots, which resulted in the choice of Mr. George 
Griggs, who took the chair. 

The Second Article coming up in order, it was — 

Voted, To lay the Second and Third Articles in the war- 
rant on the table. 

The Fourth Article was then taken up, and it was — 

Voted, To proceed to the choice of one Highway Surveyor, 
— and Mr. Jesse Bird was elected. 

The Fifth Article was then taken up, to wit : 

To raise and appropriate money to pay the interest on the increased 
town debt. 

It was — 

Voted, To raise by taxation the present year and appro- 
priate the sum of eight hundred dollars to pay the interest 
on the increased town debt. 

The Third Article was then, by vote, taken from the 
table, viz. : 

To hear the report of any committees. 

After ffivino; suitable time for any committee to present 
their reports, the meeting then voted to lay the Third Arti- 
cle on the table. 

Voted, To take the Second Article from the table, to wit : 

To see what action the town will take in regard to destroying dogs, 

— and Mr. George F. Homer presented the following pre- 
amble and votes : 

Whereas, in the opinion of the town the public health and 
safety would be promoted by the further restraining of dogs 
going at large, 



Militia List, 1854. 



475 



Voted, That the Selectmen of the town, in their capacity 
as a Board of Health, destroy or cause to be destroyed all 
dogs which may be found going at large unmuzzled after 
reasonable notice to the inhabitants of this vote, and that 
the town will indemnify them for their acts in the premises. 

The above vote, after being discussed fully by several 
gentlemen, was adopted by a large majority. It was then 

Voted, That the Town Clerk cause a printed copy of the 
foregoing vote to be distributed through the town and left 

Do o 

at the usual place of abode of the inhabitants, in the same 
manner and for the same time as notices for town meetings 
are usually given. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be restricted in that they do 
not employ minors in the destruction of dogs. 
Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1854. 



Francis Caverly 
Thomas W. ( ott'ran 
William Robbins 
Caleb Russell 
Amherst A. Frazier 
Joseph A. Thayer 



Benry R. Robbins 

John Stuart 
John Stuart. 2d 
Andrew J. Harrington 
John Shepherd 
Josiah Goodimr 



Geo. C. Crowning-shield William T. Bramhall 



Edw. T). Sohier 
Chas. W. Cotting 
David Sears, Jr. 
Morrill Buttler 
David Eckley 
John L. Whipple 
John Doyle 
Nathan Doyle 
Sam'l L. Lyford 
William Stearns 
John W. Griggs 
Philip p Leminis 
Amos A. Lawrence 
John A. Burnharn 
Simon F. Bar stow 
Geo. F. Bar stow 
Daniel H. Barstow 



John C. Abbott 
I. I). 11 ay ward 
George C. Barney 
William Pope 
John Pope 
George F. Homer 
David Wilder, Jr. 
Daniel H. Rogers 
Edwin Field 
Henry Whiting 
Oliver Cousens 
B. F. Hallett 
B. F. Baker 
Ephram Church 
Thomas S. Pettingill 
Chas. Burrell 
Thomas Seaverns 



Franklin L. Brett 
William A. Wellman 
Wlliam I. Bowditch 
Thomas Howe 
Harrison Fay 
Benj'n Bradley 
John N. Turner 
C. W. Scudder 
William Aspinwall 
George S. Gushing 
Chas. F. Huntington 
Robert S. Littell 
John Kirkpatrick 
Edw. X. Dane 
Edw. C. Wilson 
Benj'n Bruce 
Edw. A. Dana 
George N. Dana 
Charles B. Dana 
Thomas H. Leavett 
Frederick J. Williams 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Gardner H. Clarke 
James J. Walcott 



476 



Brookline Town Records. 



Frederick R. Sears 
John Bradley 
Sam'l Simmons 
Thos. B. Hall 
William Ahny 
Joseph M. Bell 
Frederick Stone 
William B. Chaplin 
Frederick A. Brown 
M. J. Mandall 
Frederick Almy 
Otis Vinal 
George Griggs 
Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
John Doyle 
James W. Coolidge 
William J. Griggs 
William B. Town 
George Brooks 
Charles 0. Howe 
Daniel S. Kendall 
A. L. Cutler 
Augustine Shurtleff 
Clark L. Haynes 
William Bird 
Abuer H. Knight 
John 0. Libby 
Benj. N. JeAvett 
Joseph G. Batchelder 
Royal Mcintosh 
Daniel Duffley 
William Sanderson 
George W. Stearns 
George W. Hancock 
Wm. Powell Perkins 
Christop'r Shepherdson 
Henry Lee, Jr. 
Willard A. Humphrey 
Willard J. Humphrey 
Albert Clifford 
Thaddeus J. Townsend 
Charles A. Batchelder 
Francis K. Fisher 
Michael Mahoney 
Charles Smith 
Eben'r W. Reed 
Simon Warren 
John W. Warren 
Silas Langley 



David T. Kenrick 
Chas. W. Smith 
James L. Oliver 
Edw. R. Seccomb 
Isaac Taylor 
Robt. B. Almy 
William Bramhall 
D. Augustus Griggs 
Lowell M. Miles 

Sanborn 

Henry Gallup 
Simeon Taylor 
James M. Merriam 
Ginery Twichell 
Cyrus Ruggles 
David H. Daniels 
Henry H. Mellen 
Wm. H. Jameson 
Joseph L. White 
Samuel A. Ranson 
James C. Thomson 
William Taaffee 
William H. Leonard 
Robert Barnett 
J. Elliot Cabot 
William Andrews 
Daniel Hare 
Alonzo Bowman 
Cyrus Whitney 
John Bartlett 
James Williams 
George J. Perry 
Charles D. Head 
Charles E. Howard 
Henry Whitney 
William P. Atkinson 
William F. Crowe 
William B. Crowe 
Stephen A. Reed 
Rufus S. Allen 
Geo. J. Fisher 
Nath'iel G. Chapin 
George Bacon 
James M. Howe 
John A. Bird 
Benj. W. Clarke 
Sam'l Clark 
George N. Hill 
Lafayette Thayer 
William S. Wilson 



Samuel L. French 
A. W. Seamans 
James M. Seamans 
S. Ingersol Lovett 
Charles Pope 
George E. Hersey 
Edw. W. Hersey 
G. Kidder 

William K. Wakefield 
Nathaniel Lyford 
George Atkinson 
Edw. Atkinson 
Howard S. Williams 
Lewis T. Stoddard 
Oliver B. Delano 
William R. Dean 
John Colby 
Charles K. Francis 
Benjamin Leeds, Jr. 
Eben Wright 
Charles F. Foster 
Charles Warren 
J. Anson Guild 
Joseph D. Gutterson 
Henry R. White 
James S. Younge 
Thomas Lane 
Chas. G. Colbath 
Simon W. Clifford 
William J. Hyde 

E. B. Humphrey 
Charles Craft 
George Craft 

Blodget 

Xanthus Goodenough 
George W. Goodenough 
William Wharton 

Ira Trow 
Thomas Parsons 
Wilder Dwight 
William Dwight, Jr. 
Waldo Maynard 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
George E. Bogman 
Beuj'n F. Stephenson 
John Gibbs 
William O. Churchill 
William W. Clement 
George T. Carter 

F. M. Lyford 



Militia List, 1854. 



477 



Charles Bean 
Dennis Mahoney 
Thomas Penniman 
Eli D. Sanderson 
John H. Henshaw 
Francis Henshaw 
William Rooney 
George Penniman 
Henry A. Prichard 
Daniel S. Sanderson 
William White 
Sydney A. Morse 
Theophilus P. Chandler 
Charles Sleeper 
Charles W. Wild 
Doct. Stephen Salisbury 
James M. Edmond 
John Moreland 
John B. Prince 
Edward F. Head 
George W. Patten 
Edwin Ritchie 
Moses Jones, Jr. 
Charles W. Tolman 
James Roney 
Alex. C. Studley 
Thomas Lee 
Alfred WiUey 
Moses C. Warren 
Warren Morris 
Ariel Coflran 
R. L. Palmer 
Otis Smith 
Michael Mahan 
Jonathan P. Sanborn 
James L. Alger 
Elisha Jacobs 
Albert A. Cobb 
Frederick W. Prescott 
Rob't S. Davis 
Ransom N. Weld 
John C. Weld 
George W. Sargent 
Charles Sargent 
Albert W. Smith 
Benj'n W. Hobart 
Josiah M. Russell 



Benj'n F. Kendall 
Alfred Winsor 
Thomas W. Nickerson 
Richard Farnham 
William H. Slocum 
Daniel M. Adams 
Abel P. Adams 
J. C. Leathers 
Ansel Waterman 
Burton Neal 
Abraham H. Lambert 
George E. Carlton 
Charles L. Palmer 
Alfred Eenrick, Jr. 
Moses Stone 
George W. Bird 
John H. Webber 
Reuben A. Chase 
Horace James 
Josiah B. Kelbourne 
James G. Glover 
Benjamin Wild 
Joshua II. Putnam 
Elijah C. Emerson 
T. E. Francis, M. D. 
John Wood 
Henry W. Houghton 
Isaac March 
Royal Woodward 
Ira A. Dutton 
Edwin Clark 
James Sinclair 
Joseph Smith 
M. M. Orcutt 
Wm. K. Melcher 
Geo. W. Butters 
Marshall Kussell 
Joseph Ferguson 
John D. Kelly 
James Morse 
Sylvester Kimball 
C. T. Brackett 
Francis Doherty 
John Dustin 
Melvin Vining 
A. H. Clapp 
William S. Town 



P. W. Pierce 
Timothy Corey 
F. Henry Corey 
Frederick Corey 
Moses Withington 
James Robinson 
Sam'l A. Robinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
George W. Atkinson 
Philip S. Allen 
George B. Blake 
James Murphy 
Francis Ward 
Dennis Driscoll 
James O'Connell 
Philip Duffy 
James Driscoll 
Charles Staples 
Charles Ilouirhton 
Richard Lothrop 
(lark S. Bixby 
Nath'iel W. Brackett 
Moses Judkius 
Charles Chase 
Isaac Farrington, Jr. 
Alvin A. Rice 
George W. Rockwood 
John Murray 
Thomas O'Dea 
Cornelius O'Herne 
John McMahan 
Michael O'Dea 
Patrick Malony 
Edward Sheehau 
John McMahan 
Owen Cassidy 
Thomas Wilson 
Terrance Gallogan 
Thomas Crouty 
John Maley 
Michael Hickey 
John Burlin 
Mathew Frawley 
John Donahue 
Thomas Dillon 
Francis Mahan 
John Kenan — 364. 



Recorded and returned July 7th, 1S54. List of soldiers in Brookline, 
taken May, 1854, by the Assessors, according to law. (File G, No. 58.) 



478 Brookline Town Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 18, 1854. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the eighteenth day 
of September, current, at two of the clock in the afternoon, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see what action the town will take on the laying out and 
widening of the way leading from Boylston to Walnut street, the new 
street west of the Town Hall, and School street, as laid out and widened 
by the Selectmen. 

Third. To see what action the town will take on the petition of Wil- 
liam I. Bowditch and others, requesting that the avenues leading from 
Washington street to the Brookline Branch Railroad depot be laid out 
as townways. 

Fourth. To see what action the town will take on the petition of Wil- 
liam I. Bowditch and others, to repress the drinking and billiard saloon 
in the village. 

Fifth. To see what action the town will take in regard to truant 
children. 

Sixth, To see if the town will procure a suitable safe for its books of 
record and papers. 

Seventh. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to transfer 
from any appropriations such amount as may not be needed therefor for 
other objects duly authorized by vote of the town. 

Eighth. To see if the town will cause Washington street to be tilled 
up to a proper grade at the northerly end of the railroad bridge, accord- 
ing to a plan drawn by Whitewell and Henks. 

Ninth. To choose a Fence Viewer. 

Tenth. To see if the town will raise and appropriate such sums of 
money as is necessary to carry the foregoing objects into effect. 

Eleventh. To hear the report of any committees. 

Twelfth. To see what action the town will take in regard to disposing 
of the old school-house on Heath street by sale or otherwise. 



Special Meeting, September 18, 1854. 479 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this seventh 
day of September, in the year of our Lord eighteen hun- 
dred and fifty-four. 

James Bartlett, 
John C. Abbott, 
David S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, September 13th, 1854. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of 
the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the pur- 
poses within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their 
several places of residence. 

(See file G, No. 59.) Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 

Agreeable to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants, voters 
of the town of Brookline, assembled at the Town Hall in 
said town, on the afternoon of Monday, September the 
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and were called 
to order by the Town Clerk at twenty minutes past two 
o'clock, who then read the warrant calling the meeting; and 
the return thereon. 

The First Article in the warrant then coming up in order, 
the Town Clerk presided during the election of a Moderator, 
which was done by written ballot, and resulted in the elec- 
tion of Mr. William Dearborn, who took the chair. 

The Second Article in the warrant then coming up, it 
was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to report on each 
of the streets laid out or widened, separately, and Mr. James 
Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented the follow- 
ing report on the laying out and widening the way leading 
from Boylston to Walnut street : 

EEPORT. 
At the request of several of the legal voters of the town of Brookline, 
the Selectmen, after giving legal notice, at least seven days previous, to 
all persons concerned, proceeded on the 17th clay of August, A. D. 1854, 
to lay out and widen the way leading from Boylston to Walnut street, as 
follows : 



480 Brookline Town JRecords. 

Commencing at the southeasterly corner of said way, thence running 
across said way in a westerly direction to land of Samuel A. Walker ; 
thence running westerly on land of said Walker twenty-five feet three 
inches to a stake ; thence turning and running northeasterly on land of 
said Walker eighty-one feet six inches to a stake on the present line of 
Boylston street; thence running easterly by the line of said street on 
land of said Walker twenty-three feet six inches to the present line of 
said way ; thence across said way to land of Royal Woodward, Jr. ; 
thence turning and running southwesterly by land of Royal Woodward, 
Jr., and Capt. Benjamin Bradley, on the present line of said way, to the 
first named point of beginning, and making said way forty-five feet wide 
through its entire length. 

They also widened Walnut street at its junction with said way, as 
follows : Commencing at a stake on the present line of said street, thence 
running northeasterly in a straight line nine feet to another stake on the 
proposed line of said way ; thence turning and running westerly in a 
straight line seventy feet four inches on land of Samuel A. Walker to a 
stake on the present line of Walnut street ; thence turning and running 
easterly fifty-six feet four inches to the first point of beginning. 

The amount of land taken to widen said street and way is two thou- 
sand three hundred and fifty-seven square feet, as shown by the plan 
accompanying, drawn by Amos R. Binney, and bearing date August 18, 
A. D. 1854, which was filed in the office of the Town Clerk at least seven 
days previous to this meeting. The Selectmen would state that, as there 
are no trees nor fences on said land to be removed, six days would be a 
reasonable notice to give the owner, and that at the expiration of that 
time the town will enter upon and make said street and way. 

The land taken is all the property of Samuel A. Walker, and the Select- 
men, after carefully considering the subject, have awarded him damages 
in full in the sum of five hundred eighty-one 75-100 dollars. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

(File G, No. 60.) Signed, James Bartlett, Chairman. 

Voted, To accept and adopt the report. 

REPORT OF SELECTMEN ON WIDENING THE NEW STREET 
WEST OF THE TOWN HALL. 

The Selectmen would report that, in view of the future wants of the 
town in having a suitable and commodious street to accommodate the 
public travel to and from the new school-house now being erected on the 
town's land in rear of the Town Hall, after giving written and legal 
notice, at least seven days previous, to all persons concerned, proceeded 
on the 17th day of August, A. D. 1854, to widen the new street west of 
the Town Hall, and leading from Washington to School street, through- 
out its entire length, as follows, to wit : 

Commencing at the stone post on Washington street at the west side 
of the entrance to said street, thence running in a straight line north- 
easterly one hundred and forty-nine feet on land of Ransom N. Weld to 



Special Meeting, September 18, 1854. 481 

a stake on the present line of said street; thence turning and running 
southwesterly in a curved line on the present line of said street, bearing 
to the Avest as it approaches the termination to the first-named point of 
beginning, and containing five hundred and forty square feet, and belong- 
ing to Ransom ST. Weld. The street is widened on the east side as fol- 
lows : Commencing at a stake on Washington street forty feet distant 
from the first-named point of beginning, thence running easterly in a 
straight line over land belonging to the town one hundred and sixty- 
three feet to land of John Gibbs; thence over land of said Gibbs one 
hundred and sixty feet to Mechanic place ; thence turning and running 
northwesterly by the present line of said place ten feet 1<> a stake 
at the corner of said place and street; thence turning and running 
southwesterly by the present line of said street one hundred and sixty 
feet to a stake; thence turning and running easterly ten feet to the 
first-named point of beginning on land of said Gibbs. and containing 
one thousand six hundred feet, and belonging to John Gibbs; the 
street then crosses Mechanic place, and is widened on both sides to 
School street by taking land of the town, so that the street as now wid- 
ened is forty feet wide throughout its entire length, as shown on the 
accompanying plan, drawn byJohnF. Edwards, and bearing date August, 
A. 1). 1854, and filed in the ottice of the Town Clerk at leasl seven days 
before this meeting. 

As there are neither trees nor fences on the land either of Mr. 'iibbs 
or Mr. Weld, the Selectmen are of opinion that six days would be a 
reasonable notice to the owners, and that at the expiration of that time 
the town will enter upon and make said street. 

The Selectmen would also recommend that the grade of said street be 
three feet below the sills of the Town Hall, instead of two, as recom- 
mended by a previous report upon said street. 

After a careful consideration of the subject, the Selectmen have award- 
ed damages in full for Messrs. Gibbs and Weld, as follows: To Mr. 
Gibbs, in full for damages, the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars. 
To Mr. Weld, in full for damages, the sum of one hundred and eight 
dollars. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

(File G, No. GO.) James Bartxett, Chairman. 

Voted, To accept and adopt the foregoing report. 

REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN ON WIDENING SCHOOL STREET. 

Your Selectmen would report that agreeable to the vote of the town 
passed at their annual meeting, A. D. 1853, instructing the Selectmen to 
widen School street, that after giving legal notice to all persons con- 
cerned, at least seven days previous, proceeded on the loth day of 
August to widen said street, as follows : 

Commencing to widen on the west side of said street at a stake on 

Harvard street (near the corner of School and Harvard streets) ; thence 

running westerly in a straight line across land of William Dearborn one 

hundred and sixty-seven feet to land of James M. Seamans ; thence 

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482 BrooJdine Town Records. 

across land of said Seamans fifty-three feet six inches to land of William 
O.Churchill; thence across land of said Churchill ninety-two feet six 
inches to a stake on the present line of the street ; thence turning and 
running easterly by the present line of the street to the first-named point 
of beginning, and taking one thousand two hundred and one square feet 
of land of Mr. Dearborn, one hundred and six square feet of land of 
Mr. Seamans, and fifty-eight square feet of land of Mr. Churchill. They 
have widened it on the east side as follows : Commencing at a stake on 
the present line of said street and running westerly in a straight line 
over land of Mr. Oliver Cousens one hundred and eighty-seven feet to land 
of the town ; thence turning and running northerly three feet to the 
present line of School street ; thence turning and running easterly by the 
present line of the street to the first-named point of beginning, and con- 
taining two hundred and fifty-five square feet ; thence crossing land of 
the town and the new street, it commences at a stake on the town's land, 
thence running westerly in a straight line one hundred sixty-six feet six 
inches to laud of George S. Gushing; thence across land of said Gushing 

seventy-nine feet nine inches to land of Webster; thence across 

land of said Webster and Eersey and Clement and the heirs of the late 
Mrs. Sarah Hall, curving at the junction of School with Washington 
-i reet, and bearing south it stops at a stake on the present line of Wash- 
ington street; thence turning and running in an easterly direction by the 
present line of the street to the town's land; thence turning and running 
southerly in a straight line seven feet to a stake on the line separating 
the town's land from the land of George S. dishing, where it stops, tak- 
ing laud as follows: From Geo. S. disking five hundred and ninety- 
four feet, Webster six hundred feet, Hersey and Clement fifty-four 

feet, heirs of the late Mrs. Sarah Hall one thousand seven hundred and 
fourteen feet, all as shown on the accompanying plan, drawn by John F. 
Edwards, and tiled in the office of the Town Clerk at least seven days 
before this meeting. 

The Selectmen would recommend the filling up of the lower part of 
school street, near its junction with Harvard street, according to a plan 
of the same as drawn by Whitwell & Henks. They would also state that 
in their opinion thirty days would be reasonable notice to give Messrs. 
Dearborn, Seamans, Churchill, Cousens, Cashing, Webster, and Hersey 
Sfe Clement, to move all fences and trees now on the land taken to widen 
said street, and that at the expiration of that time the town will enter 
mpon and widen said street. In consideration of the buildings to be 
moved, the Selectmen would state that in their opinion one year from 
this date would be reasonable notice to the heirs of the late Sarah Hall 
to move all buildings, fences and trees from the land taken to widen said 
street, and that at the expiration of that time the town will enter upon 
and widen said street. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

(File G, No. GO.) James Bartlett, Chairman. 

Voted, To accept and adopt the foregoing report. 



Special Meeting. September 18, 1854. 483 

The Selectmen then presented the following award of 
damages for land taken to widen School street, which was 
accepted, to wit : 

The Selectmen, after carefully considering the subject, have awarded 
damages to the several individuals whose land has been taken to widen 
School street, it being in full for land damages, moving buildiugs and 
fences, as follows : 

To Mr. William Dearborn, in the sum of one hundred ninety- 
two dollars $192 00 

" .Mr. James M. Seamans, twenty-one dollars ... 21 00 

" .Mr. Win. 0. Churchill, eleven 60-100 dollars ... 11 60 

• Mr. Oliver Cousens, fifty-one dollars .... 51 00 

■' George S. Cushing, one hundred eighteen dollars 80-100 . 118 80 

11 — — Webster, one hundred twenty dollars . . . 120 00 

" heirs of Mrs. Sarah Hall, one thousand dollars . . 1,000 00 

Messrs. Kersey and ('lenient are considered benefited by the widening, 
ami therefore they are not awarded anything. (File G, No. 60. I 



The Third Article coming up, requesting that the avenues 
leading from Washington street to the Brookline Branch 
Railroad depot be laid out as townways, it was, on motion 
of Mr. William I. Bowditch — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to lay out as 
townways the avenues leading from Washington street to 
the railroad station, provided the same can- be laid out with- 
out expense to the town of any kind, and that they be deliv- 
ered to the town in good condition. 

Article Fourth coming up, to see if the town will repress 
the drinking and billiard saloon in the village, it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be directed to use their utmost 
endeavors to effectually suppress the drinking and billiard 
saloon in the village, and for this purpose they may retain 
counsel, and to meet any expenses which may be incurred 
in the premises, the Treasurer is hereby authorized to bor- 
row, under their direction, not exceeding the sum of five 
hundred dollars, and that they carry out to the best of their 
ability the vote of the town passed at the annual meeting on 
the present subject, and employ the police if necessary. 



484 Brookline Town Records. 

Article Fifth coming up, to see what action the town will 
take in regard to truant children, Mr. William P. Atkinson 
presented the following By-Law, which was accepted and 
adopted : 

BY-LAW OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLLNE. 

Section 1. The town of Brookline hereby adopts the two hundred 
and ninety-fourth chapter of the Laws of the Commonwealth for the 
year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled An Act concerning 
Truant Children and Absentees from School ; and also the two hundred 
and eighty-third chapter of said laws for the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-two, entitled An Act in addition to an Act concerning 
Truant Children and Absentees from School. 

Section 2. Any of the persons described in the first section of said 
act, on conviction of any of the offences therein described, shall be pun- 
ishable by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars or by commitment to the 
county jail or to such institution of instruction, house of reformation, or 
other suitable situation as may be provided, at the discretion of the 
Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction of the case and agreeable to the 
provisions of said act. 

Section 3. A Justice of the Peace shall be selected at the annual 
town meeting to have jurisdiction of the offences set forth in said act. 

(File G, No. Gl.) 



Voted, That the By-Law be referred to the School Com- 
mittee to present to the Court of Common Pleas to be 
approved. 

Sixth Article, to see if the town will procure a suitable 
safe for the custody of its books of records and papers. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be directed forthwith to pro- 
cure a suitable safe for the custody of the town records, 
books, and papers, and that the expense thereof be drawn 
from the appropriation for contingencies or other appropria- 
tion not needed, heretofore made by the town. 

The Seventh Article coming up, viz., to see if the town 
will authorize the Selectmen to transfer from any appropria- 
tion not needed to such as are, it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be at all times authorized to 
draw warrants upon the Treasurer in payment of claims for 
which the town is legally responsible or for expenses which 
have been incurred by any committee of the town duly 



Special Meeting, September 18, 1854. 485 

authorized, although no specific appropriation may have been 
made by the town for such objects ; provided such warrants 
can be drawn against the appropriations for contingencies or 
other appropriations the full amount whereof may not be 
required otherwise. 

The Eighth Article coming up, to- see if the town will 
cause Washington street to be filled up at the north end of 
the railroad bridge, according to a plan drawn by Whitwell 
and Henks — 

Voted, That the Selectmen and Highway Surveyor for 
that district be authorized to till said street as they see by 
the plan. 

The Ninth Article coming up, viz., to choose one Fence 
Viewer, the meeting made choice of Hugh M. Sanborn to be 
Fence Viewer, and he was sworn by the Town Clerk. 

The Tenth Article, to see if the town will raise and appro- 
priate money to carry the foregoing objects into effect, com- 
ing up, it was — 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the 
sum of three thousand three hundred dollars to be appro- 
priated for land damages and grading the streets as widened 
by the Selectmen, as reported at this meeting. 

The Eleventh Article coming up, to hear the reports of 
any committees, Mr. Samuel Philbrick presented the follow- 
ing report : 

REPORT. 

The Committee chosen by the town of Brookline at their animal meet- 
ing in March last, to take into consideration the petition of Thomas B. 
Hall in regard to stopping the tide-Avaters from flowing between the road 
running from the Boston Mill Dam to Brighton on the north and the 
Brookline Branch Railroad on the south, and report thereon at some 
future meeting, now ask leave to report : 

That by early attention to the subject they found Amos A. Lawrence 
was anxious to have the proposed object effected without delay — who 
proposed to accomplish the same immediately, provided he could have 
reasonable and equitable aid from the town in defraying the expense, he 
having obtained the consent of all parties interested therein. From 
inquiries and examination of all the circumstances which came within 
the knowledge of your committee, Ave became fully satisfied that the 
toAvn, as a corporation, Avould derive benefit and some saving of expense 
by thus haA r ing the tide-Avaters kept entirely aAvay from the neAv county 



486 * Brookline Town Records. 

road called Beacon street, which, having been several times overflowed 
in some places, rendering travelling for a time unsafe, and washing 
away the surface, would otherwise have to be raised considerably above 
its present grade. We therefore felt warranted in giving encourage- 
ment to said Lawrence to expect some equitable aid from the town in 
defraying said expense. In consequence of which, Mr. Lawrence has 
caused the necessary closing up of water-courses and provided a suitable 
culvert and flood-gate under the road before named, running from the 
Boston Mill Dam to Brighton, at an expense of eight hundred dollars, 
one hundred dollars of which having been subscribed by the Mill Dam 
Corporation. The Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation have 
also closed up the water-course across the Brookline Branch Railroad. 
Your committee are therefore united in the opinion that it would be 
equitable and just for the town to pay two hundred dollars to said Law- 
rence, provided he Avill give a suitable guarantee to maintain the con- 
tinued stoppage of the tide-waters as above described during the term of 
ten years. And we recommend that an appropriation for that purpose 
be made at the first town meeting when it can legally be done. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. For the committee, 

Sam'l Philbrick, 

Brookline, September 18, 1854. (File G, No. 02.) Chairman. 

Voted, To accept and adopt the foregoing report. 

Article Twelfth coming up, viz., to see what action the 
town will take in regard to disposing of the old school-house 
on Heath street by sale or otherwise — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to sell the old 
school-house on He:tth street to the best 'advantage. 

Voted, That the way leading from Boylston to Walnut 
street be named Elm street. 

Voted, That the new street on the west side of the Town 
Hall be named Prospect street. 

Adjourned sine die. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



General Election, November 13, 1854. 487 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 13, 1854. 



WARRANT. 

[seIl.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[SEAL.] 

Norfolk, s's. 

To the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the thirteenth day 
of November, inst., it being the second Monday in said 
month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls will be opened and kept open not less than 
two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To determine whether the town Avill send a Representative to 
the next General Court. 

Second To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit : For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- 
monwealth, for three Senators for this County, a Representative to the 
Thirty-fourth Congress of the United States from the Fourth District, 
one County Commissioner for this County, and a Representative to the 
next General Court, if the town determine to send one ; all to be voted 
for on one ballot. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, 
on this fourth day of November, in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-four. 

James Bartlett, 
John C. Abbott, 
David S. Coolidge, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 



488 Brookline Town Records. 

Noiifolk, ss. Brookline, Nov. 9th, 1854. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhab- 
itants, legal voters of the town of Brookline, to meet at the time and place 
and for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed notice of the 
same at their last and usual place of residence. 

(File G, No. 63.) Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant with the foregoing warrant, the legal voters of 
the town of Brookline met in the Town Hall in* said town, 
on Monday, November the thirteenth, at one o'clock in the 
afternoon, and were called to order by James Bartlett, Chair- 
man of the Selectmen, and the warrant and return were read 
by the Town Clerk. 

Voted, To send a Representative to the next General 
Court. 

The polls were then declared open for the reception of 
ballots for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- 
monwealth, for three Senators for this County, a Represent- 
ative to the Thirty-fourth Congress of the United States from 
the Fourth District, one County Commissioner for this 
County, and a Representative to the next General Court, all 
to be voted for on one ballot. 

At three o'clock, the polls having been kept open two 
hours, it was — 

Voted, That the polls be closed at four o'clock, 
— at which time they were declared closed, and the Select- 
men sorted and counted the ballots, and the whole number 
Avas three hundred and forty-one (341). And the whole 
number of votes were sorted, counted, and recorded, and 
declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed, 
and said votes were for the following persons, viz. : 

Whole number of votes for Governor of this Commonwealth was three 

hundred and forty (340), to wit : 
Charles Allen, of Worcester, one. 
Wendell Phillips, of Boston, one. 
Henry Wilson, of Natick, eight. 
Henry W. Bishop, of Lenox, thirty-three. 
Emory Washburn, of Worcester, ninety-nine. 
Henry J. Gardner, of Boston, one hundred and ninety-eight. 



General Election, November 13, 1854. 489 

The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 
wealth was three hundred and forty-one. 
Increase Sumner, of Great Barrington, had eight. 
Edmund Quincy, of Dedham, had one. 
Caleb Stetson, of Braintree, had thirty-three. 
William C. Plunket, of Adams, had ninety-nine. 
Simon Brown, of Concord, had two hundred. 

The whole number of votes for Senators was three hundred and thirty- 
nine, to wit : 
William Aspinwall, of Brookline, had eighty-nine. 
Edward Potter, of Braintree, had ninety-four. 
X. J. Arnold, of Bellingham, had one hundred and live. 
Bradford K. Pierce, of Roxbury. had two hundred and six. 
Benjamin F. White, of Weymouth, had two hundred and twelve. 
James E. Carpenter, of Foxboro. had one hundred and ninety-nine. 
Bradford K. Pierce, of Roxbury. had six. 
Thomas Kingsbury, of Needham, had two. 
Ebenezer Eaton, of Dorchester, had thirty-three. 
Laban Souther, of Cohasset. had thirty-three. 
John Green, of Dedham. had thirty-three. 
Charles D. Head, of Brookline. had one. 
Charles Stearns, of Brookline. had one. 

The whole number of votes for a Representative to Congress from the 

Fourth District was three hundred and forty-one, to wit : 
William I. Bowditch, of Brookline, had one. 
Samuel R. Spinney had thirty-three. 
Samuel II. Walley. of Roxbury, had one hundred. 
Linus B. Coinins, of Roxbury. had two hundred and seven. 

The whole number of votes for one County Commissioner for Norfolk 

County was three hundred and thirty-eight, to wit: 
James M. Freeman, of Franklin, had eleven. 
Lucas Pond, of Wrentham, had thirty-three. 
J. W. Miles, of Franklin, had ninety-four. 
Bradford S. Farrington, of Wrentham, had two hundred. 

The whole number of votes for Representative to the next General Court 
was three hundred and thirty-eight. Necessary for a choice, one 
hundred and seventy. 

Marshall Stearns had one. 

William I. Bowditch had one. 

George Babcock had thirty-three. 

Ginery Twichell had eighty-seven. 

David Wilder, Jr., had two hundred and sixteen, and was accordingly 
declared elected Representative to the next General Court. 

In the voting the check-list was used, and no person was 
allowed to deposit his ballot until his name was found and 
checked on the list. (List on file G, No. 64.) 



490 Brookline Town Records. 

The business of the meeting having all been transacted, 
the returns were filled up, signed by the Selectmen and 
Town Clerk, and sealed up in open town meeting and deliv- 
ered to the Town Clerk to forward to the office of the Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth. 

The meeting was then declared dissolved, by James Bart- 
lett, Chairman of the Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN 
ROXBURY AND BROOKLINE, OCT. 4, 1854. 

Be it remembered that on the 4th clay of October, 1854, Ave, the sub- 
scribers, being authorized as the law directs, met and proceeded to per- 
ambulate the boundary line between the city of Roxbury and town of 
Brookline, viz. : 

Beginning in the full basin at the junction-point of the boundary lines 
between the cities of Boston and Roxbury and the town of Brookline, 
thence in a direct line to the mouth of Muddy Brook (so called) ; thence 
by the channel of said brook, crossing and recrossing the Mill Dam Road 
(so called), to a stone monument on Washington street marked R. and 
B. ; thence continuing by the channel of said brook through the estate of 
James 0. Ward to a stone monument standing in the middle of said 
brook and forming the junction-point of the boundary lines between the 
city of Roxbury and the towns of West Roxbury and Brookline, said 
stone being marked R., W.R., and B. 

All of which we agreed to and renewed the clay and year before men- 
tioned. 

Jos. N. Brewer, James Bartlett, 

George Curtis, David S. Coolidge, 

Charles Hickling, B. F. Baker, Town Clerk, 

Agents of the City of Roxbury. A<jents of the Town of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest : B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

(File G, No. 64.) 



Perambulation of Boundary Lines, 1854. 491 



PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINES BETWEEN THE 
TOWNS OF BROOKLINE AND NEWTON. 

We the undersigned, Selectmen of Newton and Brookline, hereby 
certify that we, this sixth day of November, A. D. 1854, perambulated the 
lines between said towns and fixed the several bounds and monuments 
as follows, viz. : 

1st. A stone monument marked R.B.N, near the westerly edge of 
Troublesome Swamp (so called), which forms the corner bound between 
Roxbury, Brookline. and Newton. 

2d. Thence to an iron monument marked N.B. on the large rock in 
land of Caleb Crafts. 

3d. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the north side of 
the road near and westerly from the saw-mill. 

4th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. in Stake Meadow (so 
called), which monument makes a corner. 

5th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the corner of the 
wall near Stake Meadow. 

6th. Thence to a stone marked N.B. in the wall by the land of Capt. 
Clark. 

7th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the northerly side 
of the road near where formerly stood the house of A. Hyde. 

8th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the south side of 
the Worcester turnpike. 

9th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. on the westerly side 
of the road by land of Daniel Kingsbury. 

10th. Thence to a stone monument, an abutment stone, marked X.B. 
at the end of the wall on land of the heirs of Joseph Lee. 

11th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B. in a swail. 

12th. Thence to a stone monument marked N.B.B. on the south side 
in the embankment of the Charles River Railroad in land taken by said 
railroad of John , which forms the boundary corner between New- 
ton, Brookline, and Brighton. 

All of which bounds and monuments we have agreed to and renewed 
this day. 

E. J. Collins, James Bartlett, 

James F. C. Hyde, John C Abbott, 

John B. F. Fuller, David S. Coolidge, 

George Hyde, Selectmen of Brookline. 

Selectmen of Newton. 

A true copy. Attest: B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

(File G, No. 65.) 



492 Brookline Town Records. 



PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN 
BROOKLINE AND BRIGHTON. 

Be it remembered that on the 20th clay of November, 1854, we the 
subscribers, being authorized as the law directs, met and proceeded 
to perambulate the boundary line between the towns of Brookline and 
Brighton, viz. : 

Beginning at Smelt Brook where it empties into Charles River, the 
centre of said river immediately opposite said brook being the beginning 
of the line between the two towns ; thence following said brook to where 
the original stream crosses the Western avenue ; thence from the point 
in said avenue through the swamp and water to a stone monument 
marked B.B. by the edge of the swamp ; thence in a direct line to a stone 
monument marked B.B. standing on the southerly side of Harvard street 
(so called) ; thence to a stone marked B.B. set in the ground of Isaac 
Dearborn opposite the land now or late of the heirs of Jonathan Liver- 
more; thence to stone monument marked B.B. standing on the easterly 
side of Washington street (so called) at the corner of the land of 
the heirs of the said Johnathan Livermore ; thence to a stone monu- 
ment marked B.B. set in the wall at the corner of the land of James 
Dana and Timothy Corey ; thence in a direct line to a stone monument 
marked B.B. on the westerly side of Brighton street (so called) nearly 
opposite the house of Joseph White; thence to a stone monument stand- 
ing in the Charles River Branch Railroad, formerly land of John Kings- 
bury, and marked B.B.N. , forming the junction-point of the boundary 
lines between Brookline, Brighton, and Newton. 
All of which Ave agree to and renewed the day and year aforenamed. 
James Baktlett, Wm. R. Champney, 

John C. Abbott, Natii'l Martin, 

David S. Coolidge, David Collins, 

Selectmen of the Town of Brookline. Selectmen of the Town of Brighton. 
B. F. Baker, Town Clerk of Brookline. 

A true copy. Attest: B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

(File G, No. 66.) 



Perambulation of Boundary Lines, 1854. 493 



PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINES BETWEEN 
BROOKLINE AND WEST ROXBURY. 

Be it remembered that on the 20th day of November, 1851, we the sub- 
scribers, being authorized as the law directs, met and proceeded to per- 
ambulate the boundary line between the towns of Brookline and West 
Roxbury, viz. : 

Beginning at a stone monument standing in the middle of the brook 
running through the land of James 0. Ward marked R..W.R. & B.. being 
the junction-point of the boundary lines between the city of Roxbury and 
towns of Brookline and West Roxbury : thence following the centre of 
said brook and through land of Charles C. Perkins to a stone monument 
marked W.R.B. in the Avail dividing said Perkins' land from land of 
Joseph Curtis; thence following said wall northeasterly to a stone mon- 
ument marked W.R.B. standing in the fence between the land of Thomas 
Lee and Joseph Curtis; thence to a stone monument marked "W.R.B. on 
Perkins street, West Roxbury, and Cottage street, Brookline; thence to 
a stone monument on the hill in the ground in Edward II. Robbins' land 
and marked W.R.B. ; thence to a white-oak tree standing in the wall on 
land of Mrs. Wm. H. Eliot marked W.R.B. ; thence by said wall to a 
stone monument marked W.R.B. standing on land of B. Lincoln: thence 
to a stone monument marked W.R.B. at the corner of Alvin Loker's 
lane; thence to a stone monument marked W.R.B. on the east side of 
Loker's land; thence to a stone monument marked W.R.B. in the wall on 
laud of Willard A. Humphrey; thence to a stone monument marked W. 
R.B. in the wall between the land of A. 1). Weld and Randall: thence to 
a stone monument marked W.R.B. on the south side of Church street 
in West Roxbury and South street in Boookline ; thence to a stone mon- 
ument at the foot of a tree in A. D. Weld's land and marked W.R.B.; 
thence to a stone monument in John C. Gore's land marked W.R.B. ; 
thence to a white-oak tree marked W.R.B. standing in the Avail; thence 
across the swamp to a stone monument marked W.R.,N.&B.. which forms 
the corner boundary betAveen West Roxbury, Newton, and Brookline. 

All of which Ave agreed to and reneAved the day and year before men- 
tioned. 

James Bartlett, Francis C. Head, 

John C. Abbott, 

David S. Coolidge, Wji. Maccarty, Agt., 

Selectmen of the Town of Brookline. Selectmen of the Town of West 

A true copy. Boxbury. 

Attest : B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 
(File G, No. 67.) 



494 Brookline Town Records. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MAECH 19, 1855. 



WARRANT. 

[seal.] 

IsbIl!] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Mas>»achusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the 
Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the nineteenth day of 
March, current, at one o'clock in the afternoon, for the fol- 
lowing purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

Third. To bring in their votes for County Treasurer. 

Fourth. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- 
mittees. 

Fifth. To see what action the town win take in respect to repairing 
the upper part of Heath street. 

Sixth. To see what action the town will take in respect to celebrating 
in a suitable manner its third semi-centennial anniversary. 

Seventh. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to effect an 
insurance upon the school-houses of the town. 

Eighth. To see if the town will instruct its School Committee to 
appoint a Superintendent of Public Schools, "to have the care and super- 
vision of said schools, under the direction and control of said School 
Committee," agreeable to an Act of the Legislature, passed April 15, 
1854. 

Ninth. To see if the town will erect public scales at the corner of 
Harvard and Beacon streets. 

Tenth. To see if the town will procure a new set of hose for the 
engine, and a suitable place for the safe keeping of the hydrant-hose 
carriage. 

Eleventh. To see if the town will appropriate money to procure and 
place a suitable safe in the Town Hall for the preservation of its books 
of record and papers. 

Twelfth. To see if the town will pass a by-law or make an order relat- 
ing to obstructions in the highwavs. 



Annua I Meeting , March 19,1855. 495 

Thirteenth. To make such appropriations as may be called for in the 
reports of any committees for objects heretofore authorized by vote of 

the town. 

Fourteenth. To select a Justice of the Peace to attend to the cases of 
truant children, agreeable to a by-law adopted by the town September 
18, 1854. 

Fifteenth. To see if the town will cause the By-Laws of the Town to 
be reprinted and distributed to the inhabitants. 

Sixteenth. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
deemed necessary to meet the expenditures of the town for the coming 
year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-five. 

James Bartlett, 
John C. Abbott, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 15th, 1855. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the legal 
voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for 
the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same 
at their last and usual place of abode. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. G8.) Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the forgoing warrant, the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town 
on the afternoon of Monday, March the nineteenth, eighteen 
hundred and fifty -five, and were called to order at ten min- 
utes past one o'clock, by B. F. Baker, the Town Clerk, who 
read the warrant and return thereon, and presided during 
the election of Moderator. 

The meeting being requested to bring in their votes for 
Moderator, which was accordingly done, and resulted in the 
election of William I. Bowditch for Moderator, and he 
accordingly took the chair, and proceeded to take up so 
much of the warrant as would enable the meeting to choose 
a Town Clerk. 



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The votes for Town Clerk being called for, the whole 
number cast was sixty-four. B. F. Baker had sixty-three, 
and was declared elected, and was sworn to the faithful dis- 
charge of his duties by the Moderator. 

The meeting was then called to order by the Moderator, 
and prayers were offered by the Rev. Matson M. Smith. 

The Fourth Article in the warrant — 

To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees, 

— was then taken up, and reports were called for. 

James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, then presented 
the following report, which was accepted, to wit : 

REPORT. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen submit the 
following report of the places where guide posts and boards are erected 
and maintained by the town : 

There is a guide post and board thereon standing at the junction of 
"Washington and Boylstou streets, directing to Brighton and Newton 
Upper Falls. 

One on the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Worces- 
ter, Newton, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Brighton streets, directing to 
Brighton. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton 
Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Heath and Warren streets, directing to Newton, 
Dedham. and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Clyde and Warren streets, directing to Dedham 
and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Clyde and Newton streets, directing to Brighton, 
Newton, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Grove and Newton streets, directing to Roxbury 
and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Grove and South streets, directing to Brighton. 

One at the corner of South and Newton streets, directing to Dedham, 
Newton, and Brighton. 

One at corner of "Warren and Cottage streets, directing to Dedham 
and Jamaica Plain. 

One at corner of Warren and Walnut streets, directing to Jamaica 
Plain. 

One at corner of Washington and Harvard streets, directing to Brigh- 
ton and Cambridge. 

One at corner of Sewell's avenue and Harvard street, directing to 
Cambridge and Cambridgeport. 



Annual Meeting, March 19, 1855. 497 

One at the corner of Washington and Beacon streets, directing to 
Boston, Newton Centre, Brighton, and Roxbury. 

< »ne at the corner of Harvard and Beacon streets, directing to Boston, 
Newton Centre, Cambridge, and Cambridgeport. 

One at the corner of Beacon street and Western avenue, directing to 
Newton Centre. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

James Bartlett, 

(File G, No. 69.) Chairman of the Selectmen. 

The School Committee's report, which had been printed 
and circulated, was then accepted without reading. (File 
G, No. 69.) 

The Treasurer's report, which had been printed and circu- 
lated, was accepted without reading. (File G, No. 69.) 

The committee on surveying the streets of the town, pre- 
sented the following report, without reading: 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed to procure a survey and plans of the streets 
of Brookline, report that soon after their appointment they made an 
agreement with Mr. John B- Henk, of the firm of Whitwell & Henk, civil 
engineers, to proceed with the work. During the summer and early part 
of the autumn, he completed the survey of and plans of Washington 
street and Harvard street. His plans, though regarded as very accurate 
and highly valuable, were finished so slowly that the committee dis- 
pensed with his services upon the completion of these streets. 

They afterwards contracted with Mr. Henry Curtis to survey and make 
a plan of Walnut street, which he finished in a neat and correct manner. 

These streets, and School street, which had been surveyed by Mr. 
Henk as a specimen, and plotted on a scale of 30 feet to the inch, making 
25 plans in all, and we believe to be sufficiently minute to enable the town 
to detect any future encroachments upon the highways if any should 
happen by the removal of the existing walls and fences. 

The plan and location of Beacon street filed by the County Commis- 
sioners with their check when it was laid out, rendered it unnecessary 
to make such a survey and plans of that street. 

During the last season the demand for engineers on the railroads and 
other public works Avas so great as to render the cost of these careful 
surveys expensive, and the committee thought it prudent to defer for 
the present similar plans of the other streets where there seemed to be 
less danger of encroachments being made. 

They have these plans reduced to a scale of — feet to the inch, and 
connected together in a map, to which they caused all the other streets 
and courts to be added, both public and private, as far as and including 
Brighton street, with all the houses situated thereon. They recommend 
that this map be completed by adding all the other streets and houses 
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in town, and that it be carefully preserved, so that all streets and ways 
hereafter laid out by individuals or by public authorities may from time 
to time be added. They also recommend that a reduced map of the 
town be made from this, which is too large to be conveniently litho- 
graphed, and three hundred copies be struck off for the use of the inhab- 
itants of the town, to be furnished to them at such prices as the Select- 
men or the town by vote may determine. 

To carry out these recommendations, they ask an appropriation of 
seven hundred dollars, which will, in their opinion, cover all necessary 
expenses. 

Brookline, March 19, 1855. Geo. GrNt<;s, 

(File G, No. 70.) For the Committee. 

The committee appointed to erect a new brick school- 
house upon the town's land, submitted the following report, 
which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed by the town to erect upon the town's land a 
school-house, etc., respectfully report, in part, as follows: 

The appropriation for this object was fifteen thousand dollars. The 
contract price of the school-house is thirteen thousand dollars, exclusive 
of furnaces, outbuildings, and excavations for the cellar. On this con- 
tract your committee have paid the sum of seventy-five hundred dollars 
$7500), and they have expended for excavations and removal of earth 
for well and other purposes, the sum of sixteen hundred and three dol- 
lars and fourteen cents ($1603.14), being a total of nine thousand one 
hundred and fourteen dollars and fourteen cents (.$9114. 14), the several 
items of which appear in the report of the Town Treasurer. There will 
be due to the contractors, when the building is finished, the sum of fifty- 
five hundred dollars ($5500), and there is a balance in the town treasury 
to the credit of this appropriation of S5S85.86 (fifty-eight hundred and 
eighty-five dollars and eighty-six cents). The committee request an 
additional appropriation of four thousand dollars ($4000), to cover 
expenses of outbuildings, furnaces, furniture, fencing and grading, and 
finishing complete the buildings and grounds. Avhich items are now 
mostly under contract. It is expected the buildings will be ready for 
occupancy by the first of May next. 

< By order of the committee, 

Brookline, March 19th, 1855. John C. Abbott, 

(File G, No. 71.) Chairman. 

The committee offer the following resolutions : 
Voted, To make an additional appropriation of four thou- 
sand dollars ($4,000) for furnishing and completing the new 
school-house and outbuildings now in process of erection on 






Annual Meeting, March 19, 1855. 499 

the town's land and for fencing and grading the school-house 
lot, and that this sum be raised by taxation the present year. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the 
above-named sum as it may be called for by the Building 
Committee, in anticipation of taxes. 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and 
the meeting voted to choose three Selectmen for the ensuing 
year. The polls were accordingly opened, and the voters 
present proceeded to bring in their votes for Selectmen. 

The whole number of votes cast was one hundred. James 
Bartlett had one hundred, Marshall Stearns had one hun- 
dred, Howard S. Williams had eighty-five, and they were 
accordingly declared elected, and were sworn to the duties 
of that office by the Moderator. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be the Overseers of the Poor. 

Voted, To choose three Principal and three Assistant 
Assessors for the ensuing year. 

The whole number of votes cast was one hundred and 
twent}'-one, and Willard A. Humphrey, Jerathmael Daven- 
port and Frederick J. Williams were chosen Principal Asses- 
sors, and Wm. H. Jameson, Thomas B. Hall and George 
Craft were chosen Assistant Assessors for the ensuing year. 
Messrs. W. A. Humphrey, J. Davenport, Fred. J. Williams 
and Thomas B. Hall were sworn to the faithful discharge of 
the duties of that office by the Moderator. 

The meeting then proceeded to vote for Town Treasurer, 
and the whole number cast was one hundred and one, and 
Moses Withington had one hundred and one and was declared 
-elected, and was sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties 
of the office by the Moderator. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector of Taxes. 

Voted, To choose a School Committee of seven for the 
ensuing year. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and thirty- 
eight, Rev. John S. Stone had 130, Rev. Matson M. Smith 
had 130, Rev. Fred. N. Knapp had 130, Rev. T. B. Hay- 
ward had 130, Edward A. Wild, M. D., had 130, Wm. A. 
Wellman had 130, Charles Warren (Washington street,) 



500 BrooMine Town Records. 

had 102, and they were declared duly elected to the office 
of School Committee for the ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose three Highway Surveyors for the ensu- 
ing 3 T ear. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and one. 
William J. Griggs had 97, Thomas C. Quimby had 98, John 
W. Warren had 97, and were declared duly elected and 
sworn to the duties of that office by the Moderator. 

Voted, To choose seven Constables for the ensuing year. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and four. 
Augustus Allen had 104, Elisha Stone had 96, Hugh M. 
Sanborn had 104, Joseph Bradley had 88, John Dustin had 
85, Sam'l L. Lyford had 84, F. Henry Corey had 99, and 
they were declared duly elected : and Messrs. Augustus 
Allen, Elisha Stone, H. M. Sanborn, John Dustin, S. L. 
Lyford, were sworn to the duties of the office by the Mod- 
erator. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingmen. 

Voted, To choose fifteen Field Drivers for the ensuing year. 

The meeting then nominated and chose George W. Bird. 

Voted, That the board chosen at the annual meeting last 
year constitute the board for the ensuing year, consisting of 
the following gentlemen, viz. : Marshall Russell, Rufus S. 
Allen, Charles G. Colbath, Simon "Warren, Jerathmael Dav- 
enport, Horace James, George W. Bird, Geo. Griggs, David 
H. Daniels, Moses Jones, Jr., Win. H. Jameson, Charles 
Burrell, William O. Churchill. 

Messrs. Clark L. Haynes and Thomas C. Quimby were 
chosen Fence Viewers. 

Messrs. Elisha Stone, J. Anson Guild and David S. Cool- 
idge were chosen Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of 
Wood and Bark. 

Mr. Charles Tolman was chosen Sealer of Leather. 

Mr. Charles Smith was chosen Pound Keeper. 

Messrs. Jesse Bird, Sam'l Philbrick and Harrison Fay 
were chosen Cemetery Committee. 

Messrs. Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder and Ed- 
ward Atkinson were chosen Auditors. 



Annual Meeting, March 19, 1855. 501 

Messrs. Augustus Allen, Charles L. Palmer and "Win. J. 
Griggs were chosen Fire Wards. 

The meeting then brought in their votes for County 
Treasurer. The whole number cast was sixty-four (64), all 
for Chauncy Churchill, of Dedham, and the result was so 
declared in open town meeting, and return of the same was 
made under seal to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas 
for the County of Norfolk by the Town Clerk of Brookline. 

In all the voting by ballot the check-list was used. (File 
G, No. — .) 

Reports of committees were then called for by the chair, 
and George F. Homer presented the following report : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed by the town, October ltth. 1852, to take 
charge of the legal proceedings instituted in the Supreme Court by the 
Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation to test the validity of the 
laying out of Beacon street across the bed and track of said railroad on 
a level therewith, respectfully report that this case was argued before 
the full bench of the Supreme Court of this State at the October term 
thereof for the County of Norfolk, and that the Court now have the 
same under advisement. 

The railroad company considered this case as the most important one 
that they ever had for judicial investigation, and they spared no pains 
or expense in preparing and pressing their case to the Court. They 
viewed and treated the case as a test case. The Hon. Richard Fletcher 
appeared for the corporation, and the Hon. Rufus Choate for your com- 
mittee. 

The expense incurred by the committee in defending the Laying out of 
Beacon street amounts to a total sum of one thousand dollars, of which 
the County Commissioners have agreed to pay from the County Treas- 
ury the sum of four hundred dollars, leaving a balance of six hundred 
dollars ^8t>00) to be provided for by the town, and the committee accord- 
ingly ask from the town an appropriation of six hundred dollars for this 
object. This amount will pay for the counsel fees and expenses thus far 
incurred in the ca<e. And as the law was so fully discussed and argued 
at the hearing before the full bench at the October term of the Supreme 
Court for Norfolk County, it is not probable any more expense will be 
incurred in the legal proceedings now pending. 

The committee, in view of the great importance of this subject to the 
general system of highways throughout the State, would recommend 
that they be authorized by the town to make application to the General 
Court for such legislation on this subject as may attain and secure the 
end desired. 

For the Committee, 

Brooklixk. March 19, 1855. Geo. F. Homer, Chairman. 

(File G, No. 72.) 



502 BrooMine Town Records. 

Voted, To accept the report and that the subject be 
referred back to the same committee to apply to the Legis- 
lature for a law on the subject, as recommended in the 
report. 

Article Fifth was then taken up, to wit : 

To see what action the town will take in respect to repairing the upper 
part of Pleath street. 

Voted, That the sum of one hundred dollars be added to 
the appropriation for highways, to be expended for that 
object. 

The Sixth Article coming up, viz. : 

To see what action the town will take in respect to* celebrating in a 
suitable manner its third semi-centennial anniversary, 

— it was — 

Voted, That a committee of twelve citizens be chosen to 
take the matter under consideration, and report at a future 
meeting. 

Voted, That the committee be appointed by the chair. 

The chair accordingly appointed the following gentlemen 
to constitute said committee : Messrs. Thomas Griggs, Otis 
Withington, John Howe, Charles Wild, Amos A. Lawrence, 
Samuel Craft, Timothy Corey, James Robinson, Abijah W. 
Goddard, Samuel Clark, Charles Heath, Jerathmael Daven- 
port . 

The Seventh Article coming up, viz. : 

To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to effect an insurance 
upon its school-houses, 

— it was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed 
to insure the four new school-houses for three-fourths their 
value. 

The Eighth Article was then taken up, viz. : 

To see if the town will instruct its School Committee to appoint a 
Superintendent of Public Schools " to have the care and supervision of 
said schools, under the direction and control of the School Committee," 
agreeable to an Act of the Legislature passed April 15, JJ354. 



Animal Meeting, March 19, 1855. 503 

It was — 

Voted, That the subject be referred to the School Com- 
mittee, to report thereon at the next annual meeting or at 
any meeting previous if they think it necessary. 

It was also — 

Voted, That the School Committee be instructed to pre- 
sent, in their future annual reports to the town, information 
upon the following topics : 

1st. The number of scholars registered in each school, 
and the average attendance. 

2d. The number of monthly visits made to each school, 
when made, and by what members of the committee. 

3d. The examinations made of the several schools, 
when, and by what members of the committee. 

4th. The several meetings of the School Committee, 
when holden, and attended by what members of the com- 
mittee. 

The Ninth Article was then taken up : 

To see if the town will erect public scales at the corner of Beacon and 
Harvard streets. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed 
to erect public scales on the corner of Beacon and Harvard 
streets, at an expense not exceeding three hundred dollars. 

The Tenth Article was then taken up : 

To see if the town .will procure a new set of hose for the fire-engine, 
and a suitable place for the safe keeping of the hydrant-hose carriage. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen and four citizens appointed by 
the chair constitute a committee to take the whole subject 
into consideration, and report thereon at the adjourned 
meeting. 

The chair appointed Messrs. Augustus Allen, Charles L. 
Palmer, Ansel H. Waterman and Jerathmael Davenport as 
the gentlemen to be added to the Selectmen to fill the com- 
mittee. 



504 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To lay the Eleventh Article on the table. 
The Twelfth Article was then taken up : 

To see if the town will make an order or pass a by-law relating to 
the obstruction of streets. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Highway Surveyors be and are hereby 
instructed to clear all limbs of trees and remove all obstruc- 
tions from the highways of the town. 

Voted, To lay the Thirteenth Article on the table. 

The Fourteenth Article coming up : 

To select a Justice of the Peace to attend to the cases of truant chil- 
dren, agreeable to a by-law adopted by the town Sept. 18, 1854, 

— Charles Pope, Esq., was nominated and chosen as the 
Justice of the Peace to attend to such cases. 

Messrs. Jerathmael Davenport, Samuel Philbrick and 
Augustus Allen were selected and chosen as suitable persons 
to make complaint against such as they may know to be 
truant children. 

Voted, That the Thirteenth Article be now taken up, viz. : 

To see if the town will make such appropriations as may be called for 
in the reports of any committees for objects heretofore authorized by 
vote of the town. 

It was — 

Voted, That the sum of one thousand dollars be appro- 
priated for the use of the committee for taking charge of the 
case of the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation 
against the town for crossing their road at grade. (See 
report, page [501].) 

Voted, That the sum of four thousand dollars be appro- 
priated for the use of the committee for building the new 
Grammar school-house, and that the Treasurer be and hereby 
is authorized to borrow that sum as it may be called for by 
the Building Committee. 

On motion of Charles Wild, M. D., it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the 



Annual Meeting, March 19, 1855. 505 

Moderator to consider the expediency of laying out a road 
in continuation of School street by the Episcopal Church, to 
terminate near Oakland place, on the Mill Dam road, and 
to report thereon as soon as may be. 

The chair appointed Messrs. Charles Wild, William Aspin- 
wall and William J. Griggs as the committee to attend to 
the subject. 

Voted, To adjourn, to meet in the same place on Monday, 
the second day of April next, at three o'clock in the after- 
noon. 

Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Toum Clerk. 



In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant and delivered the 
same to Constable Elisha Stone, requiring him to summon 
all officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within 
seven days from the reception of such summons and be sworn 
to their respective offices, where an oath is required by law, 
or to signify their acceptance or refusal of the office to which 
they were respectively chosen. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 
(File G, No. 73.) Town Clerk. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared before me and were sworn at 
the times set against their names, or signified their accept- 
ance or refusal of the several offices to which they had been 

chosen. 

B. F. BAKER, 

Toion Clerk. 



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J Assessors. 

Marshall Russell, 
Rufus S. Allen. 
Chas. G. Colbath, 

Mar. 24. Simon Warren, 

Sworn. _ 

J. Davenport, 
Horace James, 



Wm. H. Jameson, ) Assistant 

George Craft, 

George W. Bird, 

Geo. Griggs, 

David H. Daniels, 

Moses Jones, Jr., 

Wm. H. Jameson, 

Charles Burr ell,' 

Wm. 0. Churchill, 

Joseph Bradley, Constable. 

Clark L. Haynes, ") Fence 

Thos. C. Quimby, / Viewers. 

Elisha Stone, ] Surveyors of Lumber 

J. A. Guild, V and 

D. S. Coolidge, J Measurers of Wood and Bark 

Chas. Smith, Pound Keeper. 

Chas. W. Tolman, Sealer of Leather. 



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" Fred'k N. Knapp, 


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" T. B. Hay ward, 




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Mr. Wm. A. Wellman, 
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Jesse Bird. ") 


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Sam'l Bhilbrick, > Cemetery Committee 


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Chas. W. Scudder, I Auditors. 


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Edw. Atkinson, J 


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Augustus Allen, ~| 




Chas. L. Palmer, > Fire Wards. 




W. J. Griggs, j 





ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 2, 1855. 

Pursuant to the adjournment of the nineteenth day of 
March, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline met in the 
Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Monday, April 
the second, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and fifty-five, at three o'clock. 

The Moderator called the meeting to order, and read a 
list of the officers chosen at the last meeting who had not 
qualified themselves or who had neglected to give proper 
notice of their refusal of such office to the Town Clerk. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 2, 1855. 507 

Voted, That three Field Drivers be the number for the 
ensuing year. 

Hugh M. Sanborn was chosen Pound Keeper. 

D. S. Coolidge was chosen Surveyor of Lumber and 
Measurer of Wood and Bark. 

Charles W. Tolman was chosen Sealer of Leather. 

Edward A. Wild and Charles Warren (Washington street) 
were chosen School Committee, and accepted the office. 

William H. Jameson was chosen an Assistant Assessor, 
and was sworn by the Moderator. 

Voted, To choose an additional Constable. 

Whole number of ballots, sixty-four. A. H. Clapp had 
thirty ; J. M. Russell had thirty-five, and was declared 
elected. 

Voted, To excuse William P. Atkinson from serving on 
the Building Committee of the new Grammar school-house 
and the committee for surveying the streets. 

Marshall Stearns gave notice that he should move a recon- 
sideration of the vote passed at the last town meeting, 
whereby the town appropriated the sum of one thousand 
dollars for the use of the committee having the suit of the 
Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation against the 
town for crossing their road at grade in charge. 

The committee chosen at the last meeting to take into 
consideration the wants of the town in respect to a complete 
fire apparatus, made the following report : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed at the annual town meeting, held on the 
19th of March, 1855, to ascertain what is necessary for the town to pro- 
cure to equip it with apparatus sufficient for the better extinguishing- of 
fires, and report thereon at the adjourned meeting, would state that 
after having given the subject their careful attention, would report that 
the town needs new hose for the fire-engine, a new hook or hooks, and 
several ladders suitable to be used at fires, and a good, substantial car- 
riage on which to convey the same to and from fires, a reservoir near 
the Town Hall that shall hold at least four hundred hogsheads of water ; 
also, a lot of land whereon to erect a building of sufficient capacity to 
accommodate the hook and ladder and hydrant-hose carriages and their 
companies, the present engine-house being too small to accommodate any 
more than the present engine and company. 



508 Brooklhie Town Records. 

After making careful enquiries, the estimated cost of what is neces- 
sary to complete the Are equipage of the town to extinguish tires with 
facility is as follows, to wit : 

Six hundred feet of new hose $500 00 

Hooks, ladders, and carriage for the same .... 200 00 
Land and house for the hook and ladder, and hydrant-hose 

carriages 1,300 00 

Reservoir 1,000 00 

Your committee would recommend that the town procure the whole or 
a part of the same the present year. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. James Bartlett, 

(File G, No. 74.) Chairman. 

Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 

Article Fifteenth was then taken up, viz. : 

To see if the town will cause the By-Laws of the Town to be reprinted 
and distributed to the inhabitants. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen cause the By-Laws to be re- 
printed and distributed to the inhabitants. 

The committee chosen at the last meeting to take into 
consideration the subject-matter of the Sixth Article of the 
warrant, to wit : 

To see what action the town will take in respect to celebrating in a 
suitable manner its third semi-centennial anniversary, 

— made the following report : 

REPORT. 

The committee chosen at the annual meeting, March 19th, 1855, to con- 
sider the subject of celebrating the third semi-centennial anniversary of 
the town, having held a meeting, ten of the twelve chosen being present, 
would respectfully report that, after a full and deliberate discussion, it 
was unanimously agreed to recommend to the town to defer the subject 
until the next centennial anniversary. Your committee was brought to 
this conclusion by the following circumstances, to wit : 

First. It occurs at an inclement season of the year — 24th November. 

Second. There is no church in town sufficiently large to seat such a 
number as it might be supposed would like to attend the services. 

Third. There is no room in town of sufficient capacity to accommo- 
date all who might wish to partake of a collation. 

In behalf of the committee, 

Brookline, April 2d, 1855. ( I tis Withington, Sect'y. 

(File G, No. 75.) 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 2, 1855. 509 

Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 

On motion of Mr. Marshall Stearns, it was — 

Voted, That the vote passed at the last annual meeting 
whereby the town appropriated $1,000 (one thousand dol- 
lars) for the use of the committee on the suit brought against 
the town by the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation 
for crossing their railroad with the new road known as 
Beacon street at grade, be and is hereby reconsidered. 

Voted, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and hereby 
is appropriated to pay the counsel fees and expenses 
already incurred by the committee in the above-mentioned 
certiorari case. 

Voted, That a committee of two be chosen by nomination 
to carry out the plans recommended by the committee in 
their report on the best course to be pursued to furnish the 
town with better facilities for extinguishing fires. (See 
report on page [507].) 

Voted, That the three Selectmen be added to the com- 
mittee, 

— and the committee consisted of the following gentlemen, 
to wit : 

Messrs. James Bartlett, ~) 

Marshall Stearns, Selectmen 

Howard S. Williams, ) 

Augustus Allen, ) and 

Oliver Cousens, > Committee appointed. 

Benj'n F. Baker was chosen Fire Ward, and accepted. 

Voted, That the list of delinquent tax-payers be printed 
in the Treasurer's report. 

Voted, That those who do not pay their taxes within one 
month after the legal time be considered as delinquents. 

Article Eleventh was then taken up, to wit : 

To see if the town will procure and place in the To-\vn Hall a suitable 
safe for the preservation of its records. 

It was — 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by nomi- 
nation at large to place in the Town Hall a suitable safe for 
the Dreservation of the town records ; also, to alter and 






510 



BroolMne Town Records. 



arrange the lower part of the Town Hall now occupied for 
school-rooms, agreeable to and to correspond with a plan 
submitted to the meeting by J. Davenport. 

Voted, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and hereby 
is appropriated to carry that object into effect. 

Voted, That the following gentlemen be a committee, to 
take charge of and carry out the intentions of the foregoing 
votes, viz. : Jerathmael Davenport, James Bartlett, Howard 
S. Williams. 

The Sixteenth Article was then taken up, viz. : 

To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be deemed neces- 
sary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing year, 

— and the following appropriations were voted to meet the 
expenses of the town for the current year, to wit : 



For the support of poor 

" " " schools .... 

" " " highways .... 

repairing Heath and Warren streets 
county tax ...... 

state tax ....... 

general expense of Fire Department 
new hose for fire-engine .... 

hook and ladder carriage .... 

purchasing land and erecting a building thereon for 

and ladder and hydrant hose 
reservoir near Town Hall 
collecting taxes ..... 

abatement of taxes ..... 

town officers ...... 

repairing town buildings .... 

extinction of town debt .. 

interest on town debt .... 

a flag-staff for the engine company . 

cemetery 

lighting Town Hall and streets 

sidewalks 

prosecuting violations of the liquor law . 
contingencies ...... 

complete the survey of the streets . 

land damages, grading and widening streets 

paving gutters and relaying drains . 

insurance on tOAvn buildings 

ringing bell . . . 

new hay-scales, corner Harvard and Beacon streets 

stopping tide-water from Beacon street . 

safe, and altering Toavii Hall rooms 

counsel fees and expense of committee on certiorari 

furnishing and completing new school-house . 



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2,500 


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1,300 


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1,000 


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2,600 


00 


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150 


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111 Ml 


00 


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Oil 


1,000 


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700 


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300 


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Special Meeting, May 23, 1855. 511 

Voted, That the list of taxes for the year 1854 be printed 
under the direction of the board of that year ; also, that the 
list for the year 1855 be printed under the direction of the 
present Board of Assessors. 

Voted, That a list of the assets of the town be printed in 
the Treasurer's annual report. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 23, 1855. 
Constitutional Amendments. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Norfolk, ss. 

lo either of the Constables of the Toivn of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the twenty-third 
day of May, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time 
and place the polls will be opened and kept open not less 
than two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : 

•To bring in their votes to the Selectmen on the proposed Articles of 
Amendment to the Constitution, each article to be voted for separately 
upon one ballot, as follows, to wit : 

On the First Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 
On the Second Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 
On the Third Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 
On the Fourth Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 
On the Fifth Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 
On the Sixth Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 






512 Brookline Town Records. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals, this fourteenth day of May, 
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-five. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, May 17th, 1855. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote at elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said town, at the time and for the purposes within mentioned, by 
leaving a printed notice of the same at their last- and usual place of 
residence. 

Elisha Stunk, 

(File G, No. 70.) Constable of Brookline. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the qualified voters 
of the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall on the after- 
noon of Wednesday, May the twenty-third, eighteen hun- 
dred and fifty-five, and were called to order at ten minutes 
past three o'clock, by James Bartlett, Chairman of the Board 
of Selectmen. 

The Town Clerk then read the warrant and the return 
thereon. 

The polls were then opened and kept open until five 
o'clock, when the meeting voted to keep them open until 
half-past five o'clock, at which time the polls were declared 
closed, and the result of the voting was found to be as fol- 
lows, to wit : 

The whole number of ballots cast was ninety-one. 

On the First Article of Amendment : Yeas, eighty-five (85) ; Noes, six (6). 

On the Second Article of Amendment : Yeas, eighty-five (85) ; Noes, 
six (6). 

On the Third Article of Amendment: Yeas, seventy-five (75) ; Noes, six- 
teen (16). 

On the Fourth Article of Amendment : Yeas, sixty-eight (68) ; Noes, 
twenty-three (23). 

On the Fifth Article of Amendment : Yeas, eighty-eight (88) : Noes, 
three (3). 
On the Sixth Article of Amendment : Yeas, eight (S) ; Noes, eighty- 
three (83). 



Militia List, 1855. 



513 



During the voting the check-list was used, and no person 
was allowed to vote until his name was first found and 
checked on the list. 

The votes were sorted, counted, declaration thereof made, 
and sealed up in open town meeting and delivered to the 
Town Clerk to transmit to the Secretary of State, and the 
meeting was then dissolved, by Mr. James Bartlett, Chair- 
man of the Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



List of Soldiers 

Thomas M. Coflran 
Francis Caverly 
Lewis B. Doe 
Noah Coffran 
Ira Stubbs 
Simon F. Barstow 
John A. Burnham 
Isaac E. Bates 
Frederick Stone 
William Alrny 
A. A. Lawrence 
Thomas B. Hall 
E. F. Allen 
I. H. Paige 
Austin Sumner 
William Chaplin 
Patrick Carroll 
Henry A. Kelley 
Frederick Almey 
M. J. Mandall 
Frederick H. Allen 
George Griggs 
John W. Griggs 
S. L. Lyford 
Christopher Campbell 
Henry Upham 
Henry W. Palmer 
John H. Webber 
Henry H. Bowditch 
Nathan Mosman 
Thomas F. Alvord 
33 



in Broohline, taken 
May, 1855. 

Charles Kimball 
William Lincoln 
George M. Dexter 
William S. Dexter 
Charles U. Cotting 
Michael Golher 
A. A. Frazer 
Douglas Frazer 
Joseph Thayer 
John Mitchell 
James liobinson 
Peter Rooney 
Sam'l A. Robinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
(J. W. Atkinson 
John Laughton 
Thomas B. Pope 
John H. Dane 
Rufus R. Bishop 
Charles Allen 
Patrick McAvoy 
William Stearns 
Philip Lemmis 
Nathan Dorr 
Elbridge F. Law 
William J. Griggs 

Hayes 

Benj'n Wells, Jr. 
Joshua H. Putnam 
E. ( '. Emerson 
Josiah M. Russell 



by the Assessors, 



John Scol i 
l>aac Dearborn 
John Ryder 
D. S. Coolidge 
James Coolidge 

A. J. Harrington 
John Stuart 
John Shepherd 
William D. Coolidge 
James M. Sea mans 
William Bramhall 

Thomas , at Bramhall's 

Josiah Gooding 

Chas. F. Huntington 
Robert S. Littell 

B. F. Dane 
Otis Vinal 
Walter Lawton 
Lorenzo Stephens 
Edw. Chamberlin 
Timothy ( !orey 
F. Henry Corey 
F. A. Corey 
AVilliam Dolan 
Daniel Dolan 

Andrew 

Hayward Pott 
Edw. F. Head 
Edw. Ritchie 
Moses Jones, Jr. 
Thomas H. Bacon 



514 



Brookline Toivn Records. 



Charles Herrick 
George B. Blake 
Gardner S. Katheu 
George McCarty 
Charles W. Tolrnan 
James Rooney 
Chas. "Warren, wash'n St. 
Chas. "Warren, walnut St. 
Michael Mahan 
James Alger 
Jonathan P. Sanborn 
Charles L. Palmer 
George E. Carlton 
Ariel Cofl'ran 
Francis H. Lane 
Ransom N. Weld 
John C. Weld 
Alex. C. Studley 
Reuben A. Chace 
Geo. W. Bird 
Elisha Jacobs 
Albert W. Smith 
Robert S. Davis 
Benj. Hobart, Jr. 

Daniels 

George E. Bogman 
Peter W. Pierce 

Turnbull 

F. M. Lyford 

Keith 

Brown 

McDonough 

French 

David S. button 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
Wilber Dexter 

Geo. F. Whiting 
Edwin Field 
Henry Whiting 
Oliver Cousens 
John E. Cousens 
Ephraim Church 
Thomas S. Pettingill 
James W. Jones 
Daniel H. Rogers 
Charles Burrell 
George F. Homer 
Benjamin Bradley 
William H. Jameson 
Z. F. Brett 



Joseph Bradley 
Horace James 
H. C. Cutting 
Edw. A. Dana 
Thomas Seaverns 
Charles B. Dana 
William Pope 
William Aspinwall 
George S. Cushing 
John Gibbs 
Ansel G. Mathew 
John C. Cook 
William K. Melcher 
Francis Doherty 
John A. Barickman 
Charles T. Brackett 
Jack Whiting 
George Thomas 
Henry Gallup 
Lewis Searle 
John Leavy 
George Gleason 
James Edmond 
Seth W. Fowle 
Charles Townsend 
Patrick Norton 
Royal Mcintosh 
G. W. Stearns 
M. P. Kennard 
John S. Kennard 
Henry Lee, Jr. 
Francis Fisher 
Thomas Penniman 
Eli D. Sanderson 
W. J. Humphrey 
John H. Henshaw 
Francis Henshaw 
William Eooney 
Jonas M. Miles 
L. K. Miles 
L. M. Miles 
John A. Fairbank 
D. Augustus Briggs 
Edw. R. Seccomb 
William B. Town 
Richard Hills 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 
Solomon Crosby 
John Colby 
Geo. H. Brooks 



John Aspinwall 
James Walworth 
Gardiner H. Clarke' 
A. W. Seamaus 
Thomas C. Baldwin 
Luke Baldwin, Jr. 
Sam'l P. Baldwin 
Weller Baldwin 
Charles Pope 
William H. Spear 
Geo. W. Haven 
Howard S. Williams 
Nathaniel Lyford 
John H. Wakefield 
John M. Wright 
George E. Hersey 
George C. Barney 
David T. Kenrick 
George Stoddard 
Charles Smith 
James Oliver 
David H. Daniels 
Henry A. Mellen 
George Mellen 
Simeon Taylor 
Chas. H. Heath 
Augustine Shurtleff 
John Dorr 
William Bird 
Patrick Hogan 
John D. Kelley 
William Mahoney 
Thomas Curry 
Benj"n N. Jewett 
Aaron Whitney 
Joseph Batchelder 
Charles A. Batchelder 
John O. Libbey 
James Kerrigan 
Joseph Archer 
George Young 
J. Anson Guild 
L. R. Richmond 
Moses Stone 
Benjamin Leeds 
Eben Wright 
Michael Downe 
Chas. F. Foster 
Charles Warren 
A. H. Lambert 



Militia List, 1855. 



515 



William A. Wellman 
William I. Bowditch 
John X. Turner 
Chas. W. Scudder 
Isaac Taylor 
Charles Smith 
Silas Langley 
Ashley Langley 
Leonard Dame 
Eben W. Reed 
Charles H. Hawes 
John Warren 
John Zee her 
Samuel Hanson 
John L. Sheriff' 
Thaddeus Townsend 
Thomas Townsend 
Sauford Roby 
Daniel Mahoney 
Marshall Russell 
John S. Woods 
T. E. Francis 
Alfred James 
Abijah C. Stone 
James F. Burdit 
A. C. Saunders 
Albert Woodbury 
Charles D. Head 
George J. Perry 
William D wight, Jr. 
Wilder Dwight 
John Flannigan 
Simon Warren 
Alonzo Bowman 
William Tafte 
Geo. Craft 
Charles Craft 
Wm. J. Hyde 
George W. GoodnoAv 
Xanthus Goodnow 
James Moore 
Thomas Parsons 
John Dustin 

A. H. Clapp 
John McCormack 
Alvin A. Rice 

B. F. Baker 
John Murray 



Daniel S. Kendall 
Edw. C. Broadhead 
John Kilroy 
William Hadskins 
Albert A. Cobb 
J. E. Cabot 
William Heath 
Wm. H. Lenord 
J. S. Warren 
George W. Rollin 
William Claney 
Joseph Gutterson 
Samuel Mclutire 
Henry K. White 
John Park 
Wm. H. Slocum 
George Atkinson 
Edw. Atkinson 
John H. A. Tappan 
B. F. Kendall 
Alfred Wiusor 
Lafayette Thayer 
William S. Wilson 
John A. Bird 
Samuel Clark 
Benj'n W. Clark 
Clark S. Bixby 
A. L. Cutler 
George X. Hill 
Robert Kirkpatrick 
Edw. W. Cutler 
Janus M. Howe 
George J. Fisher 
George D. Wild 
Henry Whitney 
Michael O'Dea 
Otis Smith 
Edwin Clark 
James O'Connell 
Fletcher Johnson 
Mathew FraAvlej T 
James Driscoll 
Philip Duftey 
William Currey 
Timothy Maroney 
William Sumers 
John McMahan 
Patrick Malony 



Recorded and returned July the 3d, 1855. 
(File G, Xo. 77.) 



A. II. Waterman 
Geo. Penuiman 

Charles Follen 
William White 
Joseph L. White 
Wm. P. Atkinson 
G. T. Goddard 
Rufus S. Allen 
John E. Horr 
John Miskill 
Thomas O'Dea 
John Carmondy 
John Daley 
Cornelius O'Herne 
Thomas Coy 
Francis Daly 
James Mitchell 
Patrick Keenan 
Michael Glynn 
( (wen Cassidy 
Patrick Hickey 
James Murphy 
William Hicks 
Michael Hicks 
Patrick McAvoy 
Francis Ward 
Dennis Driscoll 
Jerre Flannegan 
Samuel D. Hills 
Cyrus Lock 
Albert Clifford 
Charles G. Colbath 
John D. Witcher 
David A. Hodgsden 

■ Stuart 

Thomas Dillon 
Michael Gleason 
George W. Butters 
Patrick Savage 
Sylvester Kimball 
Mears Orcutt 
Royal Woodward 
Ira A. Dutton 
James Morse 
John D. Kelly 
Charles Chase 
Samuel Chase 
Richard Raws on 
Xathaniel W. Brackett 



Attest 



B. F. Baker, 

Town Clerk. 



516 Brookline Town Records. 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 6, 1855. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet 
at the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the sixth day of 
November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first 
Monday in said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at 
which time and place the polls will be opened, and kept 
open not less than two hours, for the following purposes, to 
wit : 

First. To determine whether the town "will send a Representative to 
the next General Court. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit : For Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, 
Secretary of State, Treasurer and Receiver-General, and Auditor of 
Accounts for this Commonwealth; three Senators, one County Commis- 
sioner, Treasurer, and Register of Deeds for the County, and a Repre- 
sentative to the next General Court, if the town determine to send one ; 
all to be voted for on one ballot. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord 
eighteen hundred and fifty-five. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Selectmen of the Town of Brookline. 



General Ejection, November 6, 1855. 517 

Norfolk, ss. Brooklixe, Oct. 31, 1855. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town 
Hall in said town, at the time and for the purposes within mentioned. 
by leaving a printed notice at their last and usual place of residence. 

JOHX DUSTIN, 

(File G. Xo. 78.) • Constabh "/Brook-line 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the legal voters of 
the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall, on Tues- 
day afternoon, November the sixth, A: D. 1855. at one o'clock, 
and were called to order by James Bartlett, Chairman of the 
Board of Selectmen. 

The warrant and return thereon was then read by the 
Town Clerk. 

The First Article in the warrant, viz. : 

To determine whether the town will send a Representative to the next 
General Court. 

— was then taken up, when it was — 

Voted, That the town send a Representative to the next 
General Court. 

The polls were then declared opened for the reception of 
votes for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, 
Secretary of State, Treasurer and Receiver-General, and 
Auditor of Accounts of this Commonwealth ; for three Sen- 
ators, one County Commissioner, Treasurer, and Register of 
Deeds, for this county, and a Representative from this town 
to the next General Court — all to be voted for on one ballot. 
The polls were kept open until fifteen minutes past four 
o'clock, when, on motion, it was voted that the polls 
be now closed, and the chairman of the Selectmen accord- 
ingly declared them closed. The Selectmen sorted and 
counted the ballots, and the whole number was four hundred 
and four. And the whole number of votes were sorted, 
counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made in open 
town meeting, as by the Constitution is required, and said 
votes were for the following persons, to wit : 



518 • Brookline Town Records. 

The whole number of votes for Governor of this Commonwealth was 

three hundred and ninety-five. 
Julius Rockwell, of Pittsfleld, had forty-nine. 
Erasmus D. Beach, of Springfield, had seventy-three. 
Samuel H. Walley, of Roxbury, had ninety-four. 
Henry J. Gardner, of Boston, had one hundred and seventy-nine 

The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 
wealth was three hundred and ninety-four. 
Simon Brown, of Concord, had forty-eight. 
Caleb Stetson, of Braiutree, had seventy-one. 
Moses Davenport, of Newburyport, had ninety-eight. 
Henry TV. Benchley, of Worcester, had one hundred and seventy-five. 

The whole number of votes for Attorney-General for this Commonwealth 

was three hundred and ninety-six. 
E. Rockwood Hoar, of Concord, had fifty-three. 
Nathaniel J. Lord, of Salem, had seventy-two. 
Reuben A. Chapman, of Springfield, had ninety-eight. 
Albert H. Nelson, of Woburn, had one hundred and seventy-three. 

The whole number of votes for Secretary of State was three hundred 

and ninety-five. 
George F. Williams, of Boston, had forty-six. 
Jonathan E. Field, of Stockbridge, had seventy-two. 
Wendall T. Davis, of Greenfield, had one hundred. 
Francis DeWitt, of Ware, had one hundred and seventy-seven. 

The whole number of votes for Treasurer and Receiver-General was 

three hundred and ninety-four. 
Thomas J. Marsh, of Waltham, had forty-two. 
Stedman Buttrick, of Concord, had seventy-two. 
John Sargent, of Cambridge, had one hundred. 
Moses Tenney, Jr., of Georgetown, had one hundred and seventy-five. 

The whole number of votes for Auditor was three hundred and ninety- 
three. 
Stephen N. Giflbrd, of Duxbury, had forty-eight. 
Giles H. Whitney, of Winchendon, had seventy-two. 
Joseph Mitchell, of Boston, had ninety-nine. 
Chandler R. Ransom, of Roxbury, had one hundred and seventy-three. 

The whole number of votes for County Treasurer was three hundred and 

ninety-two. 
William Whiting, of Dedham. had one hundred and sixty-nine. 
Chauncy C. Churchill, of Dedham, had two hundred and twenty-three. 

The whole number of votes for County Commissioner was three hundred 

and ninety-two. 
Joseph McKean Churchill, of Dedham, had one hundred and seventy-four. 
Nathaniel F. Saflbrd, of Dorchester, had two hundred and eighteen. 



General Election, November 6, 1855. 519 

The whole number of votes for Register of Deeds was two hundred and 

twenty-two, and — 
Enos Foord, of Dedham, had two hundred and twenty-two. 

The whole number of votes for Senators for the County of Norfolk Avas 

three hundred and ninety-six. 
James E. Carpenter, of Foxboro, had one hundred and seventy-two- 
Benjamin F. "White, of Weymouth, had one hundred and seventy-two. 
Bradford K. Pierce, of Roxbury, had one hundred and seventy-two. 
Walter Jane, of Medfleld, had one hundred and seventy. 
Edward Potter, of Braintree, had one hundred and seventy-four. 
Charles J. Hendee, of Roxbury, had one hundred and seventy-three. 
George E. Russell, of West Roxbury. had fifty. 
John W. Loud, of Weymouth, had forty-eight. 
James M. Freeman, of Franklin, had fifty. 

The whole number of votes for Representative to the General Court was 

three hundred and ninety-four. 
William Bramhall had one hundred and fifty-nine, 
John N. Turner had two hundred and thirty-live, and was declared elected 

to represent the town in the next General Court. 

In the voting the check-list was used, and no person was 
allowed to vote until his name was found and checked on 
the list. (File G, No. 79.) 

The business of the meeting being completed, the returns 
were tilled up, signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, 
and sealed up in open town meeting and delivered to the 
Town Clerk to forward to the Secretary of the Common- 
wealth and to the County Commissioners, and Clerk of the 
Court of Common Pleas for the County of Norfolk. 

The meeting w T as then declared dissolved, by the chair- 
man of the Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



520 Brookline Town Records. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 17, 1856. 



WARRANT. 

| 8EAL.1 

[seal!] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the seventeenth day 
of March, current, at one o'clock in the afternoon, for the 
following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- 
mittees. 

Fourth. To revise the Jury List prepared by the Selectmen. 

Fifth. To see if the town will purchase a lot of land and erect a High 
school-house thereon. 

Sixth. T<> see what action the town will take in relation to a suit 
brought against it by Tampkin & Shaw for a horse killed on Beacon 
street at the Boston and Worcester Railroad crossing. 

Seventh. To act upon a proposition from the Brookline Gas Light 
Company, relating to lighting the streets of the town, and make such 
appropriations therefor as may be needed. 

Eighth. To see if the town will cause to be laid out as a public high- 
way Goddard avenue and a part of Avon street. 

Ninth. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to dispose of 
the remainder of the old school-house lot on School street, 

Tenth. To select a Justice of the Peace to attend to the cases of truant 
children, agreeable to a by-law adopted by the town September 18, 1854. 

Eleventh. To see if the town will make an alteration or amendment 
in the by-law of the town relating to time of payment of the poll-taxes. 

Twelfth. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
deemed necessary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing 
year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 



Annual Meeting, March 17, 1856. 521 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this third day 

of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and 

tifty-six. 

James Baetlett, 

Marshall Stearns, 

Howard S. Williams. 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss Brookline, March 13th, 1856. 

In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the 
legal voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and 
for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed copy of the 
same at their last and usual place of residence. 

Elisb \ Stone, 

(File (j, No. SO.) Constabh of Brool 

A true copy of the warrant and return thereon. 

Attest : 15. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the legal voters 
of the town assembled at the Town Hall on the afternoon of 
Monday, March 17th, 1856, and were called to order by the 
Town Clerk, B. F. Baker, at live minutes past one o'clock, 
and the warrant and return thereon was then read as above 
given. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 

The meeting then proceeded to the choice of a Moderator 
by ballot, the Town Clerk presiding. The whole number of 
ballots given in was forty-three, and were all for George F. 
Homer, and he was declared elected and took the chair. 

Prayer was then made by the Rev. Matson M. Smith. 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up : 

To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 

— and the vote for Town Clerk was called for. 

The whole number of votes for Town Clerk was one hun- 
dred and seventy-five. B. F. Baker had one hundred and 
seventy-four, and was declared elected, and was sworn to 
the faithful discharge of the duties of the office, by the 
Moderator. 



522 Brookline Toivn Records. 

Voted, To lay the Second Article on the table. 
Voted, To take up the Third Article : 

To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees. 

The reports of the Treasurer, Selectmen, Building Com- 
mittee on the Grammar school-house, and the report of the 
School Committee, all of which had been printed and circu- 
lated through the town, were then presented and accepted. 
(File G, No. 81.) 

The Selectmen then presented the following report on 
guide posts and boards : 

REPORT ON GUIDE POSTS AND BOARDS. 

According to the laws of the Commonwealth, the Selectmen submit the 
following report of the places where guide posts and boards are erected 
and maintained by the town, to wit : 

There is a guide post and a board thereon standing at the junction of 
Boylston street Avith Washington street, directing to Newton Upper 
Falls and Brighton. 

One on the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, 
Worcester, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Brighton street, directing to Brighton. 

One at the junction of Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton 
Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton. 

One at Heath and Warren streets, to Newton, Dedham. and Brighton. 

One at Clyde and Warren streets, to Brighton and Dedham. 

One at Clyde and Newton streets, to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham. 

One at Grove and Newton streets, to West Roxbury and Dedham. 

One at Grove and South streets, to Brighton. 

One at Grove and Newton streets, to Dedham, Brighton, and Newton. 

One at Warren and Cottage streets, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain. 

One at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain. 

One at Washington and Harvard streets, to Brighton and Cambridge. 

One at Sewell's avenue and Harvard street, to Cambridge and Cam- 
bridgeport. 

One at Beacon and Washington streets, to Boston, Newton Centre, 
Roxbury, and Brighton. 

One at Beacon and Harvard streets, to Boston, Newton Centre, Cam- 
bridge, and Cambridgeport. 

One at the junction of Beacon street with the Mill Dam, to New r ton 
Centre. 

All of which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen. 

Brooklixe, March, 1856. (Signed) James Bartlett, 

(File G, No. 82.) Chairman. 



Annual Meeting, March 17, 1856. 523 

Voted, To lay the Third Article on the table. 
Voted, To take the Second Article from the table, and to 
proceed to the choice of three Selectmen and Overseers of 
the Poor. 

The whole number of ballots given in was one hundred 
and fifty-nine, and were all for Messrs. James Bartlett, Mar- 
shall Stearns, and Howard S. Williams, for Selectmen and 
Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year, and they were 
sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties, by the Mod- 
erator. 

The meeting then proceeded to the choice of Treasurer, 
and the whole number of votes given in was one hundred and 
fifteen, and were all for Moses Withington, and he was de- 
clared elected, and was sworn into office by the Moderator. 
Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector of Taxes. 
Voted, To choose three Principal and three Assistant 
Assessors for the ensuing year, all on one ticket. 

The whole number of votes given in was eighty-two, and 
the following persons had eighty, and were chosen Principal 
Assessors : Messrs. Willard A. Humphrey, Jerathmael Dav- 
enport, and Frederick J. Williams ; and Messrs. William II. 
Jameson, George Craft and Thomas B. Hall were chosen 
Assistant Assessors, and they and the Principal Assessors 
were sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties, by the 
Moderator. 

Voted, To choose a School Committee of seven for the 
ensuing year. 

The whole number of votes given in was ninety-eight. 
Rev. John S. Stone had 98, 
" Matson M. Smith had 98, 
" T. B. Hay ward had 98, 

" N. M. Perkins had 98, )> School Committee, 
Mr. Wm. A. Wellman had 98, | 
" Thomas Parson had 98, 
" Stephen Salisbury had 64, J 
— and they were declared duly elected to the office for the 
ensuing year. 

Voted, To choose three Highway Surveyors for the ensu- 
ing year. 



524 Brookline Town Records. 

The whole number of votes was sixty-four, and — 
Messrs. Win. J. Griggs had 64, ~) 

Thomas C. Quimby had (34, > Highway Surveyors, 
John W. Warren had 64, ) 
— and they were declared elected. 

Voted, To choose seven Constables for the ensuing year. 
The whole number of votes was one hundred and seven- 
teen. 

Messrs. Augustus Allen had 117, ~] 
Elisha Stone had 117, 
John Dustin had 117, 
Aaron Whitney had 86, y Constables, 
Lewis B. Doe had 86, 
Joseph Bradley had 86, 
F. H. Corey had 117, J 
— and they were declared elected, and were all sworn to the 
duties of the office, by the Moderator, except Mr. Jos. 
Bradley ; he signified his acceptance of the same, but did 
not take the oath. 

Voted, Not to choose a Tythingman. 
Voted, To choose eight Field Drivers, 
— and the meeting nominated and chose Messrs. Burton W. 
Neal, Hiram G. Cutting, F. W. Prescott, Silas Langley, 
George N. Dana, William D. Coolidge, F. M. Lyford, David 
T. Kenrick, Field Drivers. 

The meeting then nominated and chose the following 
officers for the ensuing year : 

Messrs. C. L. Haynes and Thos. C. Quimby, Fence 
Viewers. 

J. Anson Guild, David S. Coolidge*, and Elisha Stone, 
Measurers of Wood and Bark and Surveyors of Lumber. 

Jesse Bird, Harrison Fay, and Sam'l Philbrick, Cemetery 
Committee. 

Chas. D. Head, Chas. W. Scudder, and Edw. Atkinson, 
Auditors. 

Augustus Allen, Wm. J. Griggs, and Charles L. Palmer, 
Fire Wards. 

Voted, To take the Third Article from the table, 
— and George Griggs presented the following report, which 
was read and accepted : 



Annual Meeting, March 17, 1856. 225 

REPORT. 

The Committee on the Surveys and Map of Brookliue ask leave to report 
that as soon as the -weather allowed of working in the field to advantage 
last spring, they made inquiries of various surveyors and engineers as to 
the terms on which the survey of the town could be completed and the 
previous survey incorporated into a map, and decided to engage T. & J. 
Doane, 'who accordingly completed the surveys and made a map on a 
scale of 400 feet to the inch, which they afterwards reduced to a scale 
of 800 feet to the inch for the use of the lithographer, by whom the maps 
were engraved and printed. They also procured a large, thick portfolio 
to preserve the plans of the streets made the year previous on a scale of 
thirty feet to the inch. 

The money expended by the committee, as appears by the receipts in 
the files of the Town Treasurer, were : 

T. & J. Doane'sbill $425 00 

L. H. Bradford's bill, lithographing and printing . . . 125 00 

Cotton's bill, for portfolio 6 00 

Hanson's bill, for tin case for large map .... 1 50 

Total $557 50 

A part of the changes suggested by the surveyors' plans of 1854 appear 
to have met the approbation of the town, and have been adopted, with 
slight modification in improving Washington street grade between the 
railroad bridge and Washington place, and in widening School street 
throughout and changing its grade to its present improved state. Other 
suggestions made by the engineer in his plans and profiles of the streets 
will doubtless meet the approbation and be carried into effect from time 
to time as the public convenience and exigencies may require. 

The. price fixed by the Board of Selectmen for the map is 81.no each, 
and under their direction copies were left at the stores of Coolidge & 
Brother and Mr. Bird, for the convenience of such persons as wish to 
purchase. Signed for the committee, 

Brookline, March 17th, 1856. George Griggs, 

(File G, No. 82.) Chairman. 

Voted, That the new maps of the town be sold for the 
price of (25 cts.) twenty-five cents each. 

Voted, To lay the Third Article on the table. 

Voted, To take up the Fifth Article : 

To see if the town will purchase a lot of land and erect a High school- 
house thereon. 

On motion of Wm. A. Wellman, it was — 
Voted, That a committee of seven persons be appointed 
to consider the expediency of purchasing a lot of land upon 



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which to place a suitable building for a High school, and to 
procure estimates and plans of said building, and to report 
to the town at the adjourned meeting, and that said com- 
mittee also report the best mode of disposing of the present 
Hi°:h school building and land. 

Voted, That said committee be chosen by nomination at 
large. 

The meeting then nominated and elected the following 
gentlemen : Messrs. Samuel Philbrick, Abijah W. Goddard, 
John S. Stone, Amos A. Lawrence, John N. Turner, John 
C. Abbott, Thomas Parsons, J. M. Howe, George F. Homer, 
and John Howe, committee on erection of a High school- 
house. 

Voted, To take the Fourth Article from the table : 

To revise the Jury List prepared by the Selectmen. 

The following list of Jurors for the town was then read 
and approved : 

LIST OF JURORS. 



Abbott, John C. 
Barnard, William 
Bartlett, James 
Babcock, George 
Bass, Stephen G. 
Barnett, Robt. 
Bird. William 
Bramhall, Win. 
Brackett, Nath'iel W. 
Carr, Henry W. 
Chapin, N. G. 
Churchill, Wm. 
Coolidge, David S. 



Davis, Robert S. 
Dana, Charles B. 
Dane, John H. 
Goddard, A. W. 
Griggs, Thos. B. 
Haynes, Clark L. 
Hersey, Elijah C. 
Hills, Samuel D. 
Humphrey, W. A. 
Huntington, C. H. 
Jameson, W. H. 
Kenrick, Alfred. Jr. 



Lyford, Nathaniel 
Parsons, Thomas 
Robinson, Samuel A. 
Seaverns, Thomas 
Smith, Albert W. 
Scudder, Chas. W. 
Seccomb, Edw. R. 
Stearns, Marshall 
Vinal, Otis 
Warren, Simon 
White, Joseph L. 
Williams, Howard S. 



Dated Brookline, March 3d, 1856. 

Per order Selectmen, 

B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 



The above list of Jurors "was made up on the third day of March, A. D. 
1856, by the Selectmen, and posted on the fourth at four public places in 
the town. Attest: B. F. Baker, 

Town Clerk of Brookline. 



Annual Meeting, March 17, 1856. 527 

The Sixth Article was then taken up : 

To see what action the town will take in relation to a suit brought 
against it by Tamplin & Shaw for a horse killed on Beacon street, at the 
Boston and "Worcester Railroad crossing. 

Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the Select- 
men, and that they are hereby instructed to defend the same. 

The Seventh Article was then taken up, to wit : 

To act upon a proposition from the Brookline Gas Light Co., relating 
to lighting the streets of the town, and make such appropriation as may 
be necessary therefor. 

Mr. George F. Homer, the clerk of the Gas Company, pre- 
sented the following statement and proposition : 

Brookline, March 5th, 1S5G. 
To the Selectmen of Brookline : 

Gentlemen, — The Directors of the Brookline Gas Light Company have 
long felt that the terms on which they have supplied the town with gas 
for the street lamps were not favorable to the company, and that the 
company have been losers to a considerable amount. The contract was 
made upon the starting of the company here, and when the directors 
were ignorant of its practical operation. The company are disposed to 
supply the town with gas for the street lamps on terms similar to terms 
employed by other companies in the neighboring cities and towns. The 
mode universally adopted, as we believe, is for the cities and towns to 
furnish and maintain the posts, lanterns, and fixtures, and to light and 
extinguish the lamps, and pay the company for what gas is used at a 
stipulated rate per hour for each burner of a given capacity. The com- 
pany cannot supply gas on the present terms after the first day of April 
next, and they annex a proposition which they consider reasonable. 

The Brookline Gas Light Company propose to sell to the town of 
Brookline the twenty lamp-posts now erected in the streets of the town 
for the sum of twenty-live dollars each, the same to be put in complete 
order by said company. This sum is at least thirty per cent less than 
cost, and twenty per cent less than they could now be replaced for. The 
company propose further, to supply the town with gas for the street 
lamps at the rate of one and a quarter cents per hour for each burner of 
four feet capacity per hour. The town is to keep the lamps and posts in 
repair, and pay for lighting, extinguishing, and cleaning the same. The 
town is to direct at what hours the lamps shall be lighted and when to 
be extinguished, and daily record is to be kept thereof at the company's 
office, open to the inspection of the town authorities. In this proposal 
the company include in the general term lamp-posts, not only the posts 



528 Brookline Town Records. 

and lanterns but all the fixtures and service-pipe from the street mains, 
and thej r are now ready to furnish and erect lamp-posts complete for 
thirty dollars each. 
By order of the Directors of the Brookline Gas Light Company. 

(File G, No. 83.) Geo. F. Homer, Clerk of Co. 

Voted, That the subject be referred to the Selectmen of 
the town, to report thereon at the adjourned meeting ; also 
the cost of lighting the streets with gas and fluid, separately. 

The Eighth Article was then taken up : 

To see if the town will cause to be laid out as a public highway God- 
dard avenue and a part of Avon street. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Eighth Article be indefinitely postponed. 

Article Ninth taken up : 

To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to dispose of the 
remainder of the old school-house lot on School street. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to dispose of 
the remainder of the old school-house lot on School street 
by a quit-claim deed. 

Article Tenth taken up : 

To select a Justice of the Peace to attend to the cases of truant chil- 
dren, agreeable to a by-law of the town adopted Sept. the 18th, 1854. 

Mr. Charles Pope was nominated and chosen Truant Jus- 
tice, and Messrs J. Davenport and Augustus Allen were 
nominated and chosen Truant Officers. 

Voted, To lay the Eleventh Article on the table. 

The Twelfth Article was then taken up : 

To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be deemed nec- 
essary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing year. 

The meeting then voted the following appropriations, 
to wit : 



Annual Meeting, March 17, 1856. 



529 



For the support of schools 
» » ii poor . 
«< " " highways . 
county tax . 

state tax . 
collecting taxes 
abatement of taxes . 
lire department 

town officers . . . • 
repairs of town buildings . 
interest on town debt 
extinction of town debt . 

cemetery 

sidewalks . 

land damages, widening and gradin 

paving gutters and relaying drains 

ringing bell . . . • 

contingencies . 

fencing town's land . 

prosecuting violations of liquor lav? 

reservoir 

addition to contingent fund 
lighting town .... 



streets 



§10,700 00 
800 00 
2,000 00 
6,000 00 
4,000 00 
300 00 
500 00 
700 00 
1.200 00 
300 00 
.",.000 00 
2.300 00 
100 00 
400 00 
200 00 
300 00 
100 00 
1.200 00 
500 00 
200 00 
1,000 00 
500 00 
1,200 00 

$39,500 00 



Voted, That Moses Withington, Town Treasurer, be and 
hereby is authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceed- 
ing the sum of five thousand dollars, in anticipation of taxes. 
\oted, That when this meeting adjourn it be to meet at 
this place three weeks from to-day, at half-past seven o'clock 
in the evening, April 7th, 1856. 

Voted, To adjourn. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith made out his warrant and delivered it 
to Constable Elisha Stone, requiring him to summon all 
officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within seven 



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530 Broohline Town Records. 

days from this date and be sworn to their respective offices, 
where an oath is required by law, or to signify their accept- 
ance or refusal of the office to which they are respectively 
chosen. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 
(File G, No. 84.) Town Clerk, 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared the undersigned and were sworn 
at the time set against their names, or signified their accept- 
ance or refusal of the several offices to which they had been 
chosen. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 

Mar. 22. Sworn. Joseph Bradley, Constable. 

24. " Burton W. Neal, Field Driver. 

22. " Silas Langley, Field Driver and Pound Keeper. 

22. " George N. Dana, Field Driver. 

21. " Clark L. Hayues, Fence Viewer. 

22. " Thomas C. Quimby, Fence Viewer. 
24. " William J. Griggs, Surveyor of Highways. 
22. Thomas C. Quimby, declined Surveyor of Highways. 

20. Acp'd. Kev. John S. Stone, 
22. " " N. M. Perkins, 
22. " " T. B. Hayward, School 
22. " " M. M. Smith, 
22. " Mr. Wm. A. Wellman, Committee. 
22. " " Thomas Parsons, 
22. " " Stephen Salisbury, 
24. " Charles Pope, as Truant Justice. 

21. " Jesse Bird, ~) 

24. " Harrison Fav, [ Cemetery Committee. 
20. " Sam'l Philbrick, J 

19. " Chas. D. Head, ) 
18. " Chas.W. Scudder, ^Auditors. 

20. " Edw. Atkinson, J 

22. " Augustus Allen, Fire Ward. 
24. W. J. Griggs, declined Fire Ward. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 7, 185(i. 531 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 7, 1856. 

Pursuant to the adjournment, the citizens of the town of 
Brookline assembled in the Town Hall, on Monday evening, 
April the 7th, 1856, and were called to order by the Chair- 
man, Geo. F. Homer, at 7^ o'clock. 

The meeting then proceeded to elect the following officers 
to till vacancies, to wit : 

Apr. '.). Sworn. Charles Smith, "| were chosen 

7. •■ Thaddeus J. Townsend, J Highway Surveyors. 

•• LO. •• Elisha Stone. | Surveyors of Lumber 

11 11. •• J. Anson Guild, > and 

David S. Coolidge, j Measurers of Wood and Bark. 
Charles L. Palmer. I Fire Wards. 
F. Henry Corey. i and accepted. 
Jerathmael Davenport, \ Truant < (fficers, 
Augustus Allen. j and accepted. 

Voted, That the vote whereby the town voted to have 

eight Field Drivers be and hereby is reconsidered, and that 

the three already sworn be the number for the ensuing year. 

James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, then presented 

the following report, which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

In pursuance of the vote of the town passed at their last annual meet- 
ing, held in the Town Hall on the afternoon of Monday, March the 17th, 
1856, instructing the Selectmen to examine into the subject of lighting 
the streets of the town, and the expense of the same, with gas and also 
with fluid, your Selectmen have attended to that duty, and respectfully 
report that the} 7 have made inquiries in the city of Roxbury and the town 
of West Roxbury. Avhere they light their streets with both gas and fluid, 
and we have 'obtained the following information : That the city and 
town own the lamp-posts, lanterns, and lamps, and light, extinguish, and 
take care of the same. In the city of Roxbury the gas company furnish 
the gas for each burner of four feet capacity for one and a cpiarter cents 
per hour. In the town of West Roxbury the gas company furnish gas 
for lighting the streets for §3.50 per thousand feet, and measure the 
same with a meter placed at one of the lamp-posts, and we accordingly 
submit to the town the following result : 

For iron post, setting lantern, burner, and frame . . $25 to $28 

For gas, lighting, and taking care of posts, being for each 

post per year of 2£4 nights, averaging six hours per night 28 00 

For wood posts, setting lantern, lamp, and frame . . 15 33 

For fluid, lighting, and taking care of posts, being for each 

post per year of 2G-1 nights, averaging six hours per night 20 00 

James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen. 



532 Brookline Toivn Records. 

Voted, That the sum of ($1200.00) one thousand two 
hundred dollars be appropriated to light the town where the 
citizens shall furnish lamp-posts under the direction and to 
the satisfaction of the Selectmen. 

The committee to whom was referred the consideration of 
the Eighth Article of the warrant calling the annual meet- 
ing, to wit : 

To see if the town will purchase a lot of land and erect a High school- 
house thereon, 

— presented the following report, which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed at the annual meeting of the town to consider 
the expediency of purchasing a lot of land for a new High school-house, 
etc., have attended to the various duties submitted to them under the vote 
of the town at said meeting and respectfully report as follows : 

The committee at their first meeting, nine of their number being pres- 
ent, considered very fully the subject of the present deficiencies in the 
High school accommodations in this town and unanimously voted: 
"That they did consider it expedient and for the best interests of the 
town of Brookline that a suitable lot of laud should be selected at once 
and if necessary a lot should be at once purchased by the town and that 
a new High school building should be forthwith erected thereon and 
suitably furnished." The committee then divided into sub-committees on 
lots and plans, and after several meetings have unanimously adopted the 
conclusions which they have the honor to present. 

First. — Tin: Location of the proposed High School. 

The situation of a High school building where an orderly and effect- 
ive school can be most readily sustained ought to be one most con- 
venient of access to a majority of its pupils, and this would natur- 
ally be in or near the center of population, having some regard also 
to the prospective increase of the town. The lot in size should be 
from 20,000 to 30,000 square feet, and, while it is of easy approach 
from the principal streets, it would be very desirable to have it 
somewhat retired and not upon the great thoroughfares of travel. 
Upon examining the town of Brookline it is at once apparent that 
while the geographical centre of the town is near the gate house at 
the reservoir, the centre of the population is about a mile in a north- 
easterly direction. The Town Hall may very fairly be taken as in the 
present centre of population, and for the next ten years the increase will 
probably teud still further north of School street. 

The recent survey of the town shows the whole number of dwelling 
houses in the town to be 542, of which 108, less than one-fifth, are west 



Adjourned Annual Meeting , April 7, 1856. 533 

of a line drawn from north to south through the reservoir. If a com- 
parison of population should be made with equal accuracy it would ex- 
hibit without doubt a still greater disproportion. 

The committee, with these views, have examined and considered the 
claims of every lot of land within a quarter of a mile of the Town Hall, 
which, in their opinion, was suitable and could be bought for the pur- 
pose. It was ascertained by them that no land on Cypress street could 
be purchased for this purpose. A lot on Boylston street, formerly occu- 
pied by C. O.Howe, was noticed by the committee, but they were of 
opinion that it was not sufficiently central or of easy access. A lot on 
Washington street, owned by Timothy C. Leeds, has been carefully con- 
sidered by the committee. This lot measures 130 feet on Washington 
street, running back about 200 feet to land of the town, and contains 
32,500 square feet. 

The committee have corresponded with the owner of this land, relating 
to the terms upon which it can be purchased. He is unwilling to name a 
price at present, and this lot cannot be purchased without delay, if at all. 
If, however, it could be obtained for this purpose at once at a reasonable 
price, the committee would not give it the preference over the lot which 
they have selected. It has nearly every objectionable feature which can 
be possibly attached to that lot without its many advantages. The atten- 
tion of the committee has been also called to lots upon School and Har- 
vard streets and other avenues in that vicinity, but while these several 
lots of land are open to many objections, they have none of them, in the 
judgment of the committee, any substantial advantages over the selected 
lot. 

The committee unanimously recommend for the location of the High 
school-house the town's land on School and Prospect streets as the best 
lot that can be obtained for this purpose, and on the whole superior to 
any lot noticed by the committee. The committee have formed their 
judgment upon the intrinsic merits of the lot, and not merely on the fact 
that it is owned by the town. It is central. It will accommodate a 
majority of the present population of the town, and is favorably situated 
for probably future increase. Taking the lot as the centre of a circle 
with a radius of half a mile and there will be included the most thickly 
settled portion of the town as well as the most eligible building lots for 
speedy improvement and occupancy. 

Second. It is of dimensions required, measuring 150 feet on Prospect 
street and 166 feet on School street, aud containing 26,588 square feet. 

Third. It is of convenient access, being upon the tw r o widest streets 
in town, and yet not exposed to the fast travel of Washington street and 
other thoroughfares. 

Fourth. It is sufficiently airy, dry, and elevated, and affords many 
facilities for building. Its present appearance is not attractive, but it 
can easily be made so. There will be no extra expense occasioned by 
excavation, removal of earth, or grading, before commencing the building. 

Fifth. It is owned by the town, and paid for, and there is no need of 
discussion as to price, terms, and conditions. This consideration, 
although by no means of prime importance, ought not surely to be lost 
siijht of in weighing the advantages and disadvantages of lots. 






534 Brookline Town Records. 

The committee do riot insist that their selection is free from objections, 
but those who object should point out a better lot which can now be pur- 
chased at a fair rate. Most of the objections which can be urged would 
apply to any lots in the -vicinity in an unfinished state. It may be said 
that the proposed site is too near the Grammar school. But the com- 
mittee do not consider this a serious difficulty under the present excellent 
management of our High and Grammar schools. It is apprehended that 
no trouble will arise from this source. The Latin and High schools in 
Boston are now and long have been admirably conducted in separate 
divisions of the same building, occupying probably not more than 10,000 
square feet of land for the accommodation of 350 pupils, while the pro- 
posed arrangements contemplated the placing of less than that number in 
two separate buildings with over 60,000 square feet of land. 

Second. — Plans and Estimates. 
The committee, considering that the architecture and details of the 
proposed school edifice must be determined by a building committee, 
have not deemed it advisable to present any plans at this time, or to 
commit the town or any future committee by the adoption or recom- 
mendation of any style of building or arrangements of rooms. In gen- 
eral, they think that the school-house should be of wood, of two stories. 
with a school-room to accommodate at least 90 single desks, a lecture- 
room with a convenient room adjoining for chemical and philosophical 
apparatus, a library and recitation-room, and suitable dressing-rooms. 
A building about 60x42 feet would give the requisite accommodations, 
and such a building your committee are informed by competent authority 
can be erected for a sum of from seven to eight thousand dollars. In 
the opinion of this committee an appropriation of §10,000 would be suf- 
ficient for completing and furnishing the school-house buildings, and 
grading, finishing and fencing the school-house lot. 

Third. — Disposal ok the present High School-house and Lot. 

The committee, under the vote of the town appointing them, have con- 
sidered the subject connected with the present High school-house build- 
ing. There are about 2000 feet of land, the whole beiug valued in the Trea- 
surer's report at §1000. This sum is certainly the full value of the land and 
buildings. The committee think that the fair value of this estate should 
be ascertained by the Selectmen or some committee of the town, and 
that it be offered, at the value thus fixed, to the First Parish or some of 
the persons owning estates in that vicinity. 

The committee conclude their report by recommending to the town 
the adoption of the following resolutions : 

Voted, That a building committee of five be now appointed, who are 
hereby instructed and empowered to erect upon said land, with all rea- 
sonable dispatch, suitable buildings for the High school, to furnish the 
same, and to grade, finish and fence said lot. , 

Voted, To appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars for the above- 
named objects. 

Voted. That the Town Treasurer be and he hereby is authorized to 
borrow for the above-named objects, in behalf of the town, giving the 
note or notes of the town therefor, on such terms as he may deem most 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 7, 1856. 535 

advantageous for the town, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollar-, to 
be placed at the disposal of the building committee aforesaid when called 
for by them. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

led) John S. Stoke, Chairman. 
John C. Abbott. 
J. M. Howe. 
Thomas Pabsons. 
Bkookxine, April 5th, 1856. Geo. F. Homeb. 

File G, No. 85. 

The meeting then proceeded to act upon the resolutions, 
as follows : 

Voted, To adopt the first resolution. 

Voted, To adopt the second resolution. 

Voted, To adopt the third resolution. 

Voted, To adopt the fourth resolution. 

The committee appointed to report a list of names to the 
meeting as suitable persons for a building committee, report- 
ed the following names : 

Messrs. Thomas Parsons, John S. Stone, Albert W. Smith, 
James Bartlett, and J. Davenport, committee on building 
High school-house. 

Voted, That the report of the committee be adopted. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to 
borrow the additional sum of two thousand dollars, in antici- 
pation of taxes. 

Voted, To make the following additional appropriations, 
to wit : 

For lighting town 81,200 00 

prosecutions of liquor law ...... 200 00 

continaencies, additional ....... 500 00 

reservoir L.000 <>" 

Voted, That the various appropriations made by the town 
for the purpose of making and repairing highways and town- 
ways be assessed, after deducting the amount in the Trea- 
sury and the probable receipts for the ensuing year, amount- 
ing to the sum of , upon the polls and estates, real and 

personal, of the inhabitants, resident and non-resident, of the 
town, and collected as the town charges are usually charged 
and collected. 

Voted, That this meeting do now adjourn sine die. 

Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



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BrooMine Town Records. 



List of Soldiers for 1856. 



Lewis B. Doe 
Thomas M. Cofrau 
Ira A. Stubbs 
Abijah Tufts 
Lewis Mitchell 
James H. "W. Page 
John A. Barickmau 
Isaac Bates 
Frederick Stone 
William Almy 
Robert B. Almy 
Amos A. Lawrence 
Thomas B. Hall 
Edward F. Allen 
Gorham Gray 
George Griggs 
Warren Fisher 
John W. Griggs 
George Patten 
Charles U. Cotting 
Henry Eichardson 
William H. Lincoln 
Henry Upham 
Frank Parker 
George Dexter 
James Mealey 
John Lawton 
Patrick Nixhan 
Alonzo Farrar 
Edward G. Parker 
James McHenry 
Theodore R. Glover 
John H. Dane 
Richard Soule, Jr. 
Frederick W. Proscott 
William Stearns 
Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
Patrick Ferguson 
John Chapman 
James W. Coolidge 
Shadrack Robinson 
Willard Onion, Jr. 
Joseph Bradley 
Horace James 
N. E. Cutting 
John E. Cousens 
William Burijovne 



Edward A. Robinson 
John R. Rider 
William J. Griggs 
John Shepherd 
William D. Coolidge 
James M. Seamans 
William T. Bramhall 
Thomas Bramhall 
Robert Bramhall 
Thomas MeMahan 
Josiah Goodinii' 
Charles F. Huntington 
Robert S. Littell 
John Kirkpatrick 
Benjamin F. Dane 
Albert A. Rhodes 
William Pope 
David H. Daniels 
William B. Hazeltine 
Thomas S. Pettingill 
Charles Sleeper 
James W. Jones 
Daniel H. Rogers 
George F. Homer 
Charles Burrell 
Isaac Taylor 
Thomas Seaverns 
David T. Kenrick 
George Stoddard 
Charles W. Smith 
Charles W. Scudder 
Benj'n Bradley 
William I. Bowditch 
F. Henry Perkins 
Franklin Z. Brett 
Wm. H. Jameson 
D. Augustus Griggs 
Edward R. Seccomb 
James L. Oliver 
Ginery Twichell 
Frederick Derby 
Moses D. Philips 
John C. Cook 
John Gibbs 
Asael G. Mathews 
Wm. O. Churchill 
Horace Hatch 
Edw. F. Head 



Spencer 

William L. Mack 
Lucius L. Miles 
Lowell M. Miles 
P. L. Gregory 

E. R. Butler 

J. Adams Fairbanks 
Timothy Corey 

F. Henry Corey 
Frederick A. Corey 
James Bartlett 
James Jenkins 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
Fhillip Allen 
Charles Herrick 
Frank Dawes 
George B. Blake 
John Brown 

A. S. Adams 
Moses C. Warren 
Charles Warren 
Henry Lorinii 
Theodore Baker 
Charles W. Tolman 
James Rooney 
Oliver Cousens 
Bradford Kingman 
Alex. C. Studley 
John C. Weld 
Ransom N. Weld 
George N. Dana 
Robert S. Davis 
Reuben A. Chace 
Stephen Wiley 
W. H. Floyd 
Albert W. Smith 
Benjamin W. Hobart, Jr. 
Edwin Fields 
Henry Whiting 
Frank F. Seamans 
Benj'n Heustis 
Charles P. Bancroft 
A. Rosman Walker 
James M. Edmond 
Ichabod Cook 
M. H. Taylor 
Charles Chase 



Militia List, 1856. 



537 



Henry T. Gallupp 
Charles Colby 
Willard Colby 
Geo. W. Bird 
John H. Webber 
R. L. Palmer 
John Dustin 
Alex. H. Clapp 
Charles T. Brackett 
Ebenezer Morse 
John McCormack 
Alvin A. Rice 
George W. Butters 
Sylvester Kimball 
Lewis Searle 
Chas. Townsend 
Calvin A. Kemp 
Amasa Shurtleff 
Edwin Clark 
William Barnard, Jr. 
Charles Chase 
Royal Woodward 
James Morse 
James O'Connell 
Michael Maloney 
Michael Hickey 
James Driscoll 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
Joshua B. Spencer 
George F. Whiting 
David S. Dutton 
Frank M. Lyford 
Peter W. Pierce 
O. B. French 
Daniel W. Atkinson 
R. Barton 
Geo. E. Bogman 
Thomas Curry 
Benj'n N. Jewett 
Aaron Whitney 
J. G. Batchelder 
C. A. Batchelder 
John 0. Libbey 
Thomas McMahan 
Lawrence Kelley 
James H. Ward 
George W. Stearns 
Alonzo Langley 
William P. Perkins 



Will. Aspinwall 
Moses Emery 
Ira A. Dutton 
Robert Roberts 
Otis Vinal 
Walter Lawton 
Moses Withington 
Lorenzo Stephens 
Edw. Chamberlin 
Edw. H. Chamberlin 
Fred'k J. Williams 
Harrison Bird 
Albert A. Cobb 
Wm. F. Tuckerman 
James T. Cobb 
Edward A. Dana 
Charles B. Dana 
Edward C. Wilson 
John M. Wright 
Geo. E. Hersey 
John H. Wakelield 
Nathaniel Lyford 
Isaac D. Haywood 
Luke Baldwin, Jr. 
William P. Baldwin 
George W. Haven 
A. H. Avery 
Howard S. Williams 
Andrew J. Harrington 
Lyman Seavy 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Augustus Allen 
John Aspinwall 
Gardiner H. Clarke 
Wm. R. Paine 
Augustus W. Seamans 
Moses Jones, Jr. 
Thaddeus J. Townsend 
Thomas C. Quiniby 
John L. Sheriff 
Samuel A. Hanson 
James Eliot Cabot 
James H. Clarke 
Mark Fickett 
John W. Warren 
Simon Warren 
James S. Amory 
Henry Blake 
George Nelson 



<;. A. Butler 
R. W. Morse 
George Clarke 
Charles L. Palmer 
Jonathan P. Sanborn 
James L. Alger 
Morris Dean 
James A. Dupee 
Elijah C. Emerson 
George E. Carlton 
Joshua H. Putnam 
George H. Neibuhr 
Frederick Pay 
Benjamin Wells. Jr. 
L. S. Harding 
J. D. Long 
Luke Hammond 
Abner 1>. Hardy 
William K. Melcher 
John Mackin 
James W. Smith 
Samuel L. Lyford 
Nathaniel W. Brackett 
Oliver B. Delano 
Richard Hills 
Alfred Kenrick, Jr. 
Burton W. Neal 
George Brooks 
B. F. Baker 
Daniel S. Kendall 
William E. Hodgskins 
Charles H. Heath 
Augustine Shurtleff 
Clark L. Haynes 
William Bird, 2d 
John Dow 
William Mahoney 
Samuel Chase 
George W. Atkinson 
William Rosco Deane 
Edward S. Philbrick 
William D. Philbrick 
John Parke 
A. H. Waterman 
Charles F. Foster 
Abraham H. Lambert 
Charles Warren 
Love Titus 
William J. Cutler 



538 



Brookline Town Records. 



George W. Hancock 
M. P. Kennard 

James Cowan ■ 
Timothy Crawning 
Cornelius Donovan 
Samuel T. Morse 
Francis K. Fisher 
Silas H. Langley 
James Bradley 
Willard A. Humphrey 
Willard J. Humphrey 
E. T. Feuniman 
Samuel Cutter 
Eben W. Feed 
Usher Burbank 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Charles H. Hawes 
Charles Smith 
John H. Henshaw 
Francis Henshaw 
Charles C. Follen 
William Rooney 
William White 
Joseph L. White 
Robert Barnett 
William Heath 
Edw. Atkinson 
William Taffe 
Daniel Mahoney 
Thomas Townsend 
Samuel Townsend, Jr. 
Charles Craft 
Charles G. Colbath 



William D wight. Jr. 
Henry Whitney 
Win. P. Atkinson 
Henry K. White 
P.ufus S. Alien 
I. W. Thornton 
Charles D. Head 
George J. Fisher 
N. G. Chapin 
Thos. Quinlan 
George Bacon 
Robert Poole 
James M. Howe 
George H. Hill 
Alfred Hill 
John Hawes 
Elisha Jacobs 
Clark S. Bixby 
Abraham L. Cutter 
Benj'n W. Clark 
Samuel Clark 
John A. Bird 
Benj'n F. Kendall 
Alfred Winsor 
Henry W. Carr 
John 1). Hayward 
John H. A. Tappan 
Francis Ward 
Moses B. Williams 
Moses M. Judkins 
William H. Slocum 
Albert Clifford 
William J. Hvde 



Eben Wright 
James Harris 
Benj'n Leeds, Jr. 
John Lee 
J. Anson Guild 
Aliijah C. Stone 
Geo. W. Rockwood 
Willard Gross 
J. A. Barickman 
Henry A. Bigelow 
John S. Woods 
George Gleason 
Henry Orcntt. Jr. 
James Sinclair 
Marshall Russell 
Dennis Driscoll 
Sam'l Mclntire 
John S. Richard> 
Joseph D. Gutterson 
James Davis 
Albert Barnes 
William W. Cook 
Thomas Parsons 
Joseph W. Goddard 
William G. Wharton 
Richard Bradley 
William G. Welds 
Caleb Craft. Jr. 
Xanthus Goodnough 
Geo. W. Goodnough 
George Craft 
Samuel D. Hills 



(Signed,) J. Davenport, Clerk of Assessor* of Bror>kl h, «. 
Recorded and returned July Hth, 1S56. 

(File G, No. 86.) Attest: B. F. Baker, Town Clerk. 



PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE 
CITY OF BOSTON AND THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE. 

We the subscribers, the Aldermen of the City of Boston and the Select- 
men of the Town Brookline, pursuant to notice, met this tenth day of 
July, A. D. 1856, at the time and place appointed, and run the line and 
renewed the laud-marks between the City of Boston and the Town of 
Brookline as follows, to wit : 



General Election, November 4, 1856. 539 

Beginning- at a stone post marked Bo. on the easterly side and Br. on 
the westerly side, standing on the Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam west- 
erly from the new filling sluices erected in said dam (the old sluices 
referred to in the Act of February 22d, 1825, entitled "An Act relative 
to the boundary lines of the City of Boston and the Town of Brookline," 
having been removed) ; thence running northwesterly from said post at 
an angle of one hundred and fifteen degrees from the Mill Dam until it 
strikes the centre of Charles River channel, and also running from the 
said post southerly at an angle of one hundred and three degrees forty 
minutes until it strikes the centre of the channel of Muddy River at a 
point where the respective boundaries of Boston, Brookline and Roxbury 
meet each other, being the same lines mentioned and described in the 
above-recited Act. 

In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands this day and year 
first above mentioned. 

Farnham Pjlummer, J Aldermen James Bartlett, | Selectmen of 

Joseph M. Wightman, 1- of Howard S. Williams, i Brookline. 



Osmyn Brewster, > Boston. 

(FileG, No. 87.) 



GENERAL ELECTION. NOVEMBER 4, 185(5. 



WARRANT. 

[seal.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[SEAL.] 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline. 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the fourth day of 
November next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, at 
which time and place the polls will be opened and kept open 
not less than two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To determine whether the town will send a Representative to 
the next General Court. 



540 Brookline Town Records. 

Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following 
officers, to wit : For thirteen Electors of President and Vice-President 
of the United States, each ballot for snch Elector to contain the name of 
at least one inhabitant of each Congressional District of this Common- 
wealth; also, for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Councillors, Secretary 
of State, Treasurer and Receiver-General, Attorney-General, Auditor of 
Accounts, three Senators for Norfolk County, Commissioners of Insol- 
vency, Register of Insolvency, Register of Probate, District Attorney, 
one County Commissioner, two Special County Commissioners, Clerk of 
Courts, Sheriff, a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from the 
Fourth District, and a Representative to the next General Court, if the 
town determine to send one — all to be voted for on one ballot. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookl ine. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, October 29th, 1856. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the legal 
voters of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote at elections, to meet 
at the time and place and for the purposes within named, by leaving a 
printed notice of the same at their last and usual place of residence. 

John Dustin, 

(File G, No. 88.) Constable of Brookline. 

In compliance with the foregoing warrant, the legal voters 
of the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said Brook- 
line, at one o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, November 
the 4th, 1856, and were called to order by James Bartlett, 
Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and the warrant and 
the return thereon were then read by the Town Clerk. 

Voted, That the town send a Representative to the next 
General Court. 

The Chairman of the Selectmen then declared the polls 
opened for the reception of ballots, as follows : For thirteen 
Electors for President and Vice-President of the United 



General Election, November 4, 1856. 541 

States, Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- 
wealth, Councillors, Secretary of State, Treasurer and 
Receiver-General, Attorney-General, Auditor of Accounts, 
three Senators for Norfolk County, Commissioners of Insol- 
vency, Register of Insolvency, Register of Probate, District 
Attorne}', one County Commissioner, two Special County 
Commissioners, Clerk of Courts, Sheriff, a Representative 
to the Thirty-fifth Congress from the Fourth District, and a 
Representative to the next General Court — all to be on one 
ticket. 

At two o'clock, the polls having been kept open one hour, 
on motion, it was — 

Voted, That the polls be closed at a quarter-past five 
o'clock, 

— at which time they were declared closed, and the Select- 
men then proceeded to sort and count the votes, and the 
whole number was five hundred and thirty-nine (539). And 
the whole number of votes were sorted, counted, and recorded, 
and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is direct- 
ed, and said votes were for the following persons, to wit : 

For Electors at Large : Five hundred and thirty-live. 

William Appleton, of Boston, one hundred and sixty-four. 
Charles D. Stockbridge, of Wately, one hundred and sixty-four. 
Nathaniel J. Lord, of Salem, one hundred and seventy-three. 
Whiting Griswold, of Greenfield, one hundred and seventy-three. 
Julius Rockwell, of Pittsfield. one hundred and ninety-eight. 
Thomas Colt, of Pittsfield, one hundred and ninety-eight. 

For an Elector for District Number One. 
John Baylies, New Bedford, one hundred sixty-four. 
Abraham H. Howlan, New Bedford, one hundred seventy-three. 
John Vinson, Edgartown, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Two : 
Henry Dimon, Jr., Fall River, one hundred sixty-four. 
Jared Pratt, Middleboro. one hundred seventy-three. 
Azariah B. Wheeler, North Bridgewater, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Three : 
Alfred B. Ely, Newton, one hundred sixty-four. 
Bradford L. Wales, Randolph, one hundred seventy-three. 
George R. Russell, West Roxbury, one hundred ninety-eight. 



542 Brookline Town Records* 



District Number Four : 

Archelaus Wilson, Boston, one hundred sixty-four. 
Patrick Riley, Boston, one hundred seventy-three. 
George Odiorne, Boston, one hundred ninety-four. 

District Number Five : 

Zelotes Hosmer, Cambridge, one hundred sixty-four. 
Daniel Draper, Boston, one hundred seventy-three. 
Lucius B. Marsh, Boston, one hundred ninety-six. 

District Number Six : 

Henry Luscotnb, Jr., Salem, one hundred sixty-four. 
William Hammond, Marblehead, one hundred seventy-three. 
George Devereux, Salem, one hundred ninety-four. 

District Number Seven : 

Luther F. Bell, Charlestowu, one hundred sixty-four. 
Edward Riddell, Charlestown, one hundred seventy-three. 
James M. Usher, Medford, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Eight : 

Jefferson Bancroft, Lowell, one hundred sixty-four. 
James C Abbott, Lowell, one hundred seventy-three. 
John Nesmith, Lowell, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Nine : 

Joseph W. Lealand, Grafton, one hundred sixty-four. 
George W. Bentley, Worcester, one hundred seventy-three. 
J. S. C. Knowlton, Worcester, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Teu : 

Joseph E. Marsh, Chicopee Falls, one hundred sixty-four. 
Alonzo F. Blanchard, Palmer, one hundred seventy-three. 
Charles E. Forbes, Northampton, one hundred ninety-eight. 

District Number Eleven : 

Franklin Weston, Dalton, one hundred sixty-four. 
Thomas F. Plunkett, Pittsfield, one hundred seventy-three. 
Franklin Ripley, Greenfield, one hundred ninety-eight. 

The whole number of votes for Governor was five hundred and twenty- 
four, as follows : 

Charles Sumner had one. 

Josiah Quincy had two. 

Luther V. Bell, Charlestown, forty-eight (48.) 

George Wm. Gordon, Boston, one hundred and twelve (112). 

Erasmus D. Beach, Springfield, one hundred seventy-three (173). 

Henry J. Gardner, Boston, one hundred eighty-eight (188). 



General Election November 4, 1856. 543 

The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor was five hundred 
and twenty-two, as follows : 

Julius Rockwell. Springfield, had one (1). 

Henry Chapin had one (1). 

Homer Foote, Springfield, one hundred fifty-six (156). 

Albert Currier, Newburyport, one hundred seventy-two (172 , 

Henry W. Benchly, Worcester, one hundred ninety-two (192). 

The whole number of votes for Secretary of State was five hundred 
thirty-eight. 

John Sargent, Cambridge, had one (1). 

William L. Lincoln, Worcester, forty-seven 47 . 

Wm. M. Cornell. Boston, one hundred fourteen (114). 

Jonathan E. Field. Stockbridge, one hundred seventy-seven (177). 

Francis DeWitt. Ware, one hundred niuety-niue (199). 

The whole number of votes for Attorney-General was five hundred and 
thirty-nine, as follows : 

Ezra Wilkinson, Dedham, one hundred seventy-seven (177). 
John H. Clifford, New Bedford, three hundred sixty-two (362). 

Auditor: The whole number of votes was five hundred thirty-niue, as 
follows : 

Joseph Mitchell, Boston, fifty-one (51). 

Timothy Ingraham, New Bedford, one hundred fourteen (114). 
Giles H. Whitney, Winchendon, one hundred seventy-seven (177). 
Charles R. Ransom, Roxbury, one hundred ninety-seven (197.) 

Treasurer and Receiver General : The whole number of votes was five 
hundred thirty-seven, as follows : 

John Sargent, Cambridge, forty-seven (47). 

George Foster, Lynn, one hundred fifteen (115.) 

Stedman Butterick, Concord, one hundred seventy-seven (177). 

Moses Tenny, Georgetown, one hundred ninety-eight (198). 

For Senators : 

Walter Jones, Medfield. three hundred twenty-five (325). 
Abner Holbrook, Weymouth, three hundred thirty-one (331). 
Charles J. Hendee, Roxbury, three hundred thirty-two (332). 
John N. Turner, Brookline, two hundred (200). 
John M. Merrick, Walpole, two hundred (200). 
Asaph Churchill, Dorchester, tAvo hundred (200). 
T. W. Prescott, one (1). 

District Attorney : The whole number of votes for District Attorney was 
five hundred and twenty-nine, as follows : 

Edward Avery, Braintree, three hundred and twenty-nine. 
James M. Keith, Roxbury, two hundred. 



544 Brookline Town Records. 

Register of Probate : The whole number of votes for Register of Probate 

was four hundred and twenty, as follows : 
Jonathan H. Cobb, Dedham, two hundred and eight. 
Waldo Colburn, Dedham, two hundred and twelve. 

County Commissioners : The whole number of votes was five hundred 

and thirty-nine, as follows : 
George Beals, Jr., Cohasset, three hundred and thirty-nine. 
Seth Mann, 2d, Randolph, two hundred. 

Special County Commissioners : The whole number of votes was five 

hundred and thirty-nine, as follows : 
Abraham F. Howe, Roxbury, three hundred and thirty-nine. 
John A. Gould, Walpole, three hundred and thirty-nine. 
George W. Gay, Sharon, two hundred. 
Samuel B. Noyes, Canton, two hundred. 

Sheriff: The whole number of votes was five hundred and twenty-eight, 

as follows : 
Edward Potter, Braiutree, three hundred and twenty-eight. 
John W. Thomas, Weymouth, two hundred and one. 
Thomas Adams, Roxbury, one. 

Commissioners of Insolvency : The whole number of votes was five hun- 
dred and thirty-nine, as follows : 
Franklin Woodside, Roxbury, three hundred and thirty-nine. 
Asa French, Braiutree, three hundred thirty-nine. 

A. Loring dishing, Randolph, three hundred thirty-nine. 
Charles Endicott, Canton, two hundred. 

Warren Lovering, Medway, two hundred. 
N. C. Berry, Randolph, two hundred. 

Register of Insolvency : The whole number of votes was five hundred and 

thirty-nine, as follows : 
Edgar K. Kingman, Dedham, three hundred thirty-nine. 
Erastus Worthington, Dedham, two hundred. 

Clerk of the Courts: The whole number of votes was two hundred and 
thirty-nine. 

Ezra W. Sampson received the Avhole number, viz., two hundred and 
thirty-nine. 

Representative to Congress : The whole number of votes was five hundred 

and ten, and were for the following persons, to wit : 
Linus B. Comins, Roxbury, two hundred and six. 
Charles G. Green, Boston, one hundred and eighty-eight. 

B. F. Cook, Boston, one hundred and eight. 
Wm. Raymond Lee, Roxbury, three. 
James M. Howe, Brookline, three. 
Edward A. Dana, Brookline, one. 

David A. Simmons, one. 



General Election, November 4, 1856. 545 

Councillors: The whole number of votes Avas five hundred and thirty- 
nine, as follows, to wit : 
Jonathan P. Robinson, Roxbury, one hundred and seventy-seven. 
Joseph H. Chadwic, Roxbury, one hundred and sixty-two. 
Charles R. Train, Fraraingham, two hundred. 

Representative to General Court: The whole number of votes was five 

hundred and thirty-three, to wit : 
Abijah "W. Goddard, two hundred and one. 
Dauiel D. Broadhead, one hundred and eighty-five. 
Augustus Allen, one hundred and forty-seven. 

Mr. Goddard was declared elected. 

In voting the check-list was used, and no person was 
allowed to deposit his vote until his name was checked on 
the list. 

The business of the meeting being accomplished, the 
returns were then filled up, signed by the Selectmen and 
Town Clerk and declaration thereof made, and sealed up in 
open town meeting. They were then delivered to the Town 
Clerk to forward to the office of the Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth, the Clerk of the Courts, and the Counly Com- 
missioners of the County of Norfolk. 

The meeting was then declared dissolved, by the Chair- 
man of the Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Cleric. 



SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 1, 1856. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 



546 Broohline Town Records. 

the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the first day of 
December next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, for 
the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To raise and appropriate money to complete the new High 
school building and procure furniture for the same and other schools. 

Third. To see if the town will enlarge the Pearl place school-house. 

Fourth. To see if the town will take any measures in respect to pur- 
chasing a lot of land belonging to Harrison Fay, adjoining the Pierce 
school-house. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 

your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this nineteenth 

day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

eight hundred and fifty-six. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, November 26th, 1856. 

In conformity with the within warrant, I have notified and warned the 
legal voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and 
for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed notice of the same 
at their last and usual place of residence. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. 89.) Constable of Brookline. 

In compliance with the foregoing warrant, the citizens of 
the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said 
town, on the afternoon of Monda}-, the first day of Decem- 
ber, 1856, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at 
ten minutes past three o'clock, who proceeded to read the 
warrant and return thereon, and presided while the meeting 
chose a Moderator. 

On motion, it was — 

Voted, That a Moderator be chosen by nomination at 
large. 

Marshall Stearns was accordingly nominated and chosen, 
and proceeded to take the chair. 



Special Meeting, December 1, 1856. 547 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up : 

To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to complete the 
new High school building and procure furniture for the same and other 
schools. 

Thomas Parsons, chairman of the building committee, then 
read the following report : 

REPORT. 

The building committee appointed at the adjourned town meeting held 
on the 7th day of April last, to supervise the building of the new High 
school-house for the town of Brookline, beg leave to lay before the citi- 
zens and authorities of the town the following statement as exhibiting 
the reason for calling the present town meeting. 

The sum appropriated last April by the town for building the new 
High school-house was §10,000. Exclusive of its heating apparatus, the 
building which has been put up and dedicated to its appropriate use has 
cost $9,939, and inclusive of that apparatus, consisting of two of Chil- 
son's improved fur nances, it has cost $10,492, as will appear from the 
following items : 

Contract with Jonas Fitch, carpenter . . $7,G89 

" " Horace James, mason . . . 2,250 $9,939 

Chilson's furnaces, with iron chimney 553 



Total $10,492 

The building thus completed is considered by your committee as 
inferior to few if any of a similar character in the state, whether regard 
be had to its fitness for the purposes of a High school or to its substan- 
tial value and the thoroughness of its workmanship. It has a very heavy 
frame of the best timber, and is finished with lumber and other materials 
of the best quality. It contains in the cellar two apartments, separated 
from each other by a brick wall, each about 20x40 feet, nine feet high in 
the clear, and paved with brick, to be used as separate exercise or play- 
rooms for the pupils in stormy weather; and in addition to these, a 
commodious furnace-room, with coal and ash bins attached, and two 
staircases, each accommodating a pump and sink supplied with good 
water for the use of the school; in the first story, a large lecture-room, 
a smaller apartment for philosophical apparatus, and two clothes-rooms 
for the convenience of the pupils; and in the second story, the principal 
school-room, about 42 feet square, an assistants' recitation-room, and a 
room for the use of the Principal and for the cases of the High school 
library. Such a building, in good architectural taste, and finished as it is 
in a very thorough manner, and with all the most approved modern con- 
veniences, the committee cannot but think is not only a credit to the 
town but well worth the money which it has cost. 

But in addition to the building itself, the committee have been obliged 
to expend a further sum in grading and fencing the lot on which it 



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stands and in furnishing the various rooms which it contains, and toward 
meeting these additional expenses they are compelled to ask from the 
town a further appropriation to the amount of $3,500, a sum which they 
consider moderate in view of the hard and encumbered lot which they 
have had to grade, the handsome shape and condition to which they have 
reduced it, the thoroughness of its drainage, and the excellent quality of 
the furniture with which they have been able to supply the various apart- 
ments in the building. The additional appropriation which they hereby 
respectfully ask will cover the cost of the furnaces, and, it is believed, 
most all the other bills which yet remain unpaid. These bills comprise 
the following items, viz. : 



On Mr. Allen's bill 


: . . . $166 83 


" " Fitch's bill .... 


1,172 4!» 


" Smith & Lovett's bill 


160 4:7 


" Kenrick's bill ..... 


117 90 


" Jones & Carpenter's bill . 


4 12 


" C. A. Morse's bill .... 


4 12 


" Mr. Orcutfs bill .... 


G5 00 


" " Koss's bill . . . . . 


47 50 


" " Driscoll's bill .... 


83 37 


" " James' bill 


647 86 


" " Binney's bill .... 


16 00 


" " Palmer's bill .... 


49 80 


" " Pettingill's bill .... 


14 82 


" " Davenport's bill .... 


17 S2 


" " Chilson's bill .... 


560 00 


" Privies 


250 00 


" Sundries, say 


121 90 




.-;;.. 500 00 


All which is respectfully submitted. 




Brookline, Dec'r 1st, 1856. 


Thomas Parsons, 


(File G, No. 90.) 


Chairman. 



Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 
Voted, To lay the Second Article on the table. 
Voted, To take up the Third Article, to wit : 

To see if the town will enlarge the Pearl place school-house. 

William A. Wellman then presented plans showing the 
proposed enlargement, and moved that the school-house now 
on Pearl place be enlarged according to those plans, and that 
the sum of ($2,500) two thousand five hundred dollars be 
raised and appropriated for that purpose. Adopted. 

Voted, That the sum of $2,500 be raised and appropri- 
ated to enlarge the present Pearl place school-house, as 
moved by Mr. Wellman, agreeable to the plans submitted. 



Special Meeting, December 1, 1856. 549 

The Fourth Article was then taken up, to wit : 

To see what action the town will take in relation to purchasing a piece 
of land of Harrison Fay, adjoining the Pierce school-house. 

Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the Mod- 
erator, to examine the land and ascertain on what terms it 
can be purchased. 

The Moderator appointed the following gentlemen, to wit: 
Messrs. Samuel Philbrick. Charles Stearns, Jr., James Bart- 
lett, J. Davenport, and Thomas Parsons, committee appoint- 
ed to examine land and obtain terms, under Fourth Article. 

Voted, That a committee of three be chosen by nomina- 
tion at large, to take charge of the enlargement of the Pearl 
place school-house. 

The following gentlemen were then nominated and chosen, 
to wit : Messrs. Thomas Parsons, J. Davenport, and A. W. 
Smith, committee on Pearl place school-house. 

Voted, To take up from the table the Second Article. 

Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of ($3,500) three 
thousand five hundred dollars to complete the High school 
building. 

Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of ($500) rive 
hundred dollars to furnish the High and other schools. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- 
ized to borrow for the use of the town the sum of $6,500, as 
follows : 

For completing the High school-house 83,500 

•• enlarging the Pearl place school-house .... 2,500 

lc furniture for the various schools 500 



si ;..-,( hi 

— and to give the note or notes of the town therefor, in such 
sums and at such times as may be called for by the various 
committees. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



550 Brookline Town Records. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MAECH 16, 1857. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

Jo either of the Constables of the Toivn of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Monday, the 
sixteenth day of March, current, at one of the clock in the 
afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Si cond. To choose the necessary town officers for the following year 

Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- 
mittees. 

Fourth. To see what action the toAvn will take upon the order of 
notice from the County Commissioners in relation to the laying out a 
road from Harvard street to the Western avenue. 

Fifth. To see what action the town will take on an order of notice 
from the County Commissioners in relation to the laying out of a road 
from Appleton or Oakland place through Brookline to the bridge across 
Charles river, leading from Brookline to Cambridgeport to connect roads 
leading from Dorchester and Roxbury to Cambridge and Somerville ; 
also, a road between the city of Roxbury and the old county road of 
Cambridgeport and the colleges, passing through Brookline. 

Sixth. To see what action the town will take upon an order of notice 
from the Commissioners on the Back Bay Lands in relation to the alter- 
ation of the boundary lines between the cities of Boston and Roxbury 
and the town of Brookline. 

Seventh. To see if the town will, under the provisions of the 305th 
chapter of the statutes of 1851, establish and maintain a public library 
within the town for the use of its inhabitants, and provide suitable rooms 
therefor, and prescribe regulations concerning the same, and make 
appropriations for the foundation and commencement and increase 
thereof. 

Eighth. To see if the town will take any action with respect to calling 
in the School Fund, which was loaned to the town for the erecting of 



Annual Meeting, March 16, 1857. 551 

the Town Hall in 1845, and appropriate such fund to the erecting of a 
building to contain suitable rooms for an evening school and a public 
library. 

Ninth. To see if the town will purchase a gravel pit on Fairmount 
or vicinity for the repairs of highways. 

Tenth. To see if the town will purchase a lot of land in rear of the 
Town Hall, lying between the Town Hall and Mechanic place. 

Eleventh. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be 
necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
second day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen 
hundred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, March 12th. 1857. 

By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of 
the- town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the pur- 
poses within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last 
and usual place of residence. 

(File G, No. 91.) Elisha Stone, 

Constable of Brookline. 

Agreeable to the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the 
town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town 
on the afternoon of Monday, the sixteenth day of March, 
A. D. 1857, and were called to order lry the Town Clerk at 
ten minutes past one o'clock, who proceeded to read the 
warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon, as before 
given. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 

The meeting then proceeded to the choice of a Moderator, 
the Town Clerk presiding. 

The whole number of votes was seventy-six, all for Wil- 
liam I. Bowditch, and he was declared elected, and took the 
chair. 



552 Brookline Town Records. 

The meeting was then called to order by the chair, and 
prayer was offered by the Rev. N. M. Perkins. 

The Second Article was then taken up, and the meeting 
proceeded to vote for a Town Clerk for the ensuing year. 
The whole number of ballots was one hundred and twenty- 
six, and were all for B. F. Baker, and he was accordingly 
declared elected, and was sworn to the faithful discharge of 
the duties of the office, by the Moderator. 

Voted, To lay the Second Article on the table. 

The Third Article was then taken up, viz. : 

To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees. 

The Treasurer's report, which had been printed and circu- 
lated through the town, was then presented and accepted. 
(File G, No. 92.) 

The School Committee's report, which had been printed 
and distributed, was then presented and accepted. (File G, 
No. 93.) 

James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented the 
following report, which was accepted : 

REPORT ON GUIDE POSTS AND BOARDS. 

The Selectmen submit the following report of the places where guide 
posts and boards are erected and maintained by the town, to wit : 

There is a guide post with a board thereon standing at the junction of 
Boylston street with Washington street, directing to Newton Upper 
Falls and Brighton. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, 
Worcester, and Dedham. 

One at the corner of Boylston and Brighton streets, directing to 
Brighton. 

One at Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton Upper Falls, 
Newton, and Brighton. 

One at Heath and Warren streets, to Newton, Dedham. and Brighton. 

One at Clyde and Warren Streets, directing to Dedham and Brighton. 

One at Clyde and Newton streets, to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham. 

One at Grove and Newton streets, to West Roxbury and Dedham. 

One at Grove and South streets, directing to Brighton. 

One at South and Newton streets, to Dedham. Brighton, and Newton. 

One at Warren and Cottage, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain. 

One at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain. 

One at Washington and Harvard streets, directing to Brighton and 
Cambridge. 



Annual Meeting, March 16, 1857. 553 

One at Sewall's avenue and Harvard street, directing to Cambridge and 
Cambridgeport. 

One at Beacon and "Washington streets, directing to Boston. Newton 
Center, Koxbnry, and Brighton. 

one at Beacon and Harvard streets, directing to Boston, Newton Cen- 
tre. Cambridge, and Cambridgeport. 

< >ne at the junction of Mill Dam and Beacon street, directing to New- 
ton Centre. 

All which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen. 

Brooklixk, March. 1857. James Bartlett, 

(File G, No. 04.) Chairman. 

Voted, To lay on the table, and to take up from the table 
the Second Article. 

Voted, To choose three Selectmen. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and thirty. 
James Bartlett had one hundred and twenty-three, Marshall 
Stearns had one hundred and thirty, Howard S. Williams 
had one hundred and twenty, and they were declared elect- 
ed, and were sworn into the office by the Moderator. 
Voted, That the Selectmen be Overseers of the Poor. 
Voted, To choose three Principal Assessors and three 
Assistant Assessors. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and four, 
and were as follows : 

Willard A. Humphrey, Principal, one hundred and four, 
J. Davenport, " eighty-eight, 

Frederick J. Williams, " one hundred and three, 

Thomas B. Hall, Assistant, one hundred and three, 

Win. H. Jameson, " ninety-five, 

George Craft, " one hundred and four, 

— and Messrs. W. A. Humphrey, J. Davenport, Frederick 
J. Williams, Thomas B. Hall, and George Craft, were sworn 
to the faithful discharge of the duties of their several offices 
by the Moderator of the meeting. 

The meeting then proceeded to vote for Town Treasurer. 
The whole number of votes was one hundred and eighteen. 
Moses Withington had one hundred and eleven, and was 
declared elected. 

Voted, That the Treasurer be Collector, 



554 Bvookline Town Records. 

— and the Moderator then administered to him the oath of 
office. 

Voted, To choose three Surveyors of Highways. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and twenty- 
eight, and were as follows : 

William J. Griggs had one hundred and eighteen, 

Charles Smith had one hundred and twenty-four, 

Ehen W. Reed had one hundred and twenty-six, 
— and they were declared elected, and Mr. Eben W. Reed 
was sworn by the Moderator. 

Voted, To choose ten Constables. 

The whole number of votes was two hundred and thirty- 
nine, and were as follows : 

Augustus Allen, two hundred and thirty-four, 

Elisha Stone, two hundred and thirty-four, 

Aaron Whitney, two hundred and thirty-three, 

Lewis B. Doe, two hundred and twenty-seven, 

John Dustin, one hundred and forty-five, 

F. H. Corey, one hundred and ninet3 7 -two, 

Joseph Bradley, one hundred and forty-four, 

James Alger, one hundred and fifty-eight, 

Eli D. Sanderson, one hundred and fifty-eight, 

Reuben A. Chace, one hundred and fifty-one, 

A. H. Clapp, ninety-one, 
— and the ten first named were declared elected, and were 
sworn into the office by the Moderator. 

Voted, To choose seven School Committeemen. 

The whole number of votes was one hundred and eighty- 
nine, and were as follows : 

Rev. John S. Stone had one hundred and eighty-two, 
" Matson M. Smith had one hundred and seventy-nine, 
" N. M. Perkins had one hundred and eight3 r -four, 
" F. H. Hedge had one hundred and eighty-three, 
" T. B. Hay ward had one hundred and two, 

Mr. Thomas Parsons had one hundred and eighty-eight, 
" Stephen Salisbury had one hundred and eighty-eight, 
— and they having the highest number, were declared elected. 

Voted, Not to choose Tythingman. 

Voted, To choose five Field Drivers, 



Annual Meeting, March 16, 1857. 555 

— and the meeting nominated and chose Messrs. Moses 
Jones, Jr., James Sinclair, John C. Abbott, Silas H. Lang- 
ley (sworn by the Moderator), and Thomas S. Pettengill. 

Voted, To choose two Fence Viewers. 

Messrs. C. L. Haynes and Thomas C. Quimby. 

Messrs. J. Anson Guild, Elisha Stone, and D. S. Cool- 
idge, were chosen Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of 
Wood and Bark. 

Charles W. Tolman, Sealer of Leather. 

Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder, and Edw. Atkin- 
son, Auditors. 

Augustus Allen, Win. J. Griggs, and C. L. Palmer, Fire 
Wards. 

Silas H. Langley, Pound Keeper. 

Harrison Fay, Thomas S. Pcttingill, and John A. Bird, 
Cemetery Committee. 

Augustus Allen and J. Davenport, Truant Officers. 

Charles Pope, Truant Justice. 

Voted, To take the Third Art ice from the table. 

Mr. Samuel Philbrick, chairman of the committee to whom 
was referred the subject of purchasing the lot of land adjoin- 
ing the Pierce school-house on Prospect street, submitted 
the following report, which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The committee chosen by the town, in December last, with instructions 
to examine a lot of laud situated uear the Pierce school-house, belonging 
to Harrison Fay, aud if found eligible for the use of the town, to ascer- 
tain on what terms it can be purchased and report the result to this 
meeting, respectfully report that, having attended to that service, they 
find said lot, containing about thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty 
square feet, is situated in such close proximity with the school-house 
that buildings might be placed near enough to endanger its safety, and 
it being a high bank of gravel much needed for raising and repairing the 
public streets, which, when removed, would open a valuable enlargement 
of the school-house lot. we are united in the opinion that the interests of 
the town would be promoted by its purchase, even at the high price of 
twenty cents per square foot, at which price it is firmly held. 

Samuel Phubrick. 

Charles Stearns, Jr. 

J. Davenport. 

Thomas Parsons. 
Brookline, March 16th, 1857. James Bartlett. 

(File G, No. 95.) 



55l) Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to purchase 
the land. 

The Fourth Article was then taken up, to wit : 

To see what action the town will take upon the order of notice from 
the County Commissioners, in relation to laying out a road from Harvard 
street to the Western avenue. 

Dr. Charles Wild presented and read the following report, 
which was accepted : 

REPORT. 

The undersigned, a committee appointed at the annual town meeting, 
held on the 19th of March, 1855, to consider the expediency of laying out 
a way in continuation of School street by the Episcopal Church to the 
Mill Dam, beg leave to submit the following report : 

The road proposed begins at Harvard street immediately opposite the 
end of School street, and passing between the Episcopal Church and the 
old Aspinwall mansion-house and north of the house now occupied by 
William Aspinwall by an easy curve to the south, crosses the railroad at 
grade, and terminates at the Brookline branch of the Mill Dam at a right- 
angle with it. The whole length is 2770 feet, of which over 1500 feet is 
now built, with a sidewalk on one side as far as the Episcopal Church, 
and with sidewalks on both sides for the remainder of the distance. 
The gutters are paved where the descent is considerable, and there are 
two sufficient drains with iron gratings. The grades of the finished 
road are easy, only in one instance rising to 5 feet in 100. The grade 
proposed for the continuation of about 1200 feet is nearly level, descend- 
ing to the railroad at a grade of two feet to the one hundred, and thence 
passing over the marsh at a level. There is on the unfinished road over 
the upland one-half, and probably two-thirds, of the material necessary 
to grade over the marsh, and the remainder may be obtained from the 
adjoining lots, as it is Col. Aspinwall's intention to reduce them to nearly 
the level of the road, and in the vicinity of the railroad to the same level 
with that, so as to give a clear view of the track. Col. Thomas Aspin- 
wall and Mr. Augustus Aspinwall (who owns part of the road) agree, 
provided the road shall be laid out according to the survey of Mr. Shedd 
as a public highway within ninety days, to relinquish all claims to dam- 
ages for the land traversed by the road to the width of forty feet for 
the whole distance. Col. Aspinwall has obtained from the Boston and 
Roxbury Mill Dam Corporation the right to build the road solid, with 
the exception of a culvert for the water, thus saving the expense of 
bridging. 

The arguments in favor of this project are the following : 

1st. It will be a continuation towards Boston and Roxbury of School 
and Cypress streets, making with them a continuous road, without any 
sharp curve, of six thousand one hundred and nine feet, or a mile and a 
fifth. 



Annual Meeting, March 16, 1857. 557 

2d. It will make a second outlet from the populous part of the town 
to Boston and Roxbury, and thus relieve that part of Washington street 
lying between the Baptist Church and the gas works of much of its 
travel. 

3d It will save about a quarter of a mile in the travel between the 
bottom of School street and the Mill Dam road at the point of junction 
of the two roads. By the way of Francis street, it will shorten the dis- 
tance to Roxbury street and will greatly facilitate the intercourse 
between Oakland place and Applcton place and Brookline. 

4th. It can be completed at less cost now than any future time, the 
land being owned by one person only, and yielded for the purpose within 
contemplated. 

5th. The town needs the right to drain its existing roads through this 
proposed road. By the sufferance of the Messrs. Aspinwall the town 
last year laid a paved drain over four hundred feet long by the side of 
this road. This the Messrs. Aspinwall have the right to take up at any 
moment, nor could the town again acquire the right to this drainage 
without the payment of damages. 

6th. Though it is estimated that the cost of the completion of the 
road would be about two thousand dollars, your committee believe that 
the cost to the town of Brookline, in consequence of the supposed 
advantage to the abutters, may be but one thousand dollars, such sum to 
be paid to the contracting parties upon its completion and acceptance. 

The committee have therefore come to the conclusion that it would be 
for the benefit of the town to have this road laid out as a public highway. 

That the rights of railroads and towns in respect to crossing at grade 
are yet unsettled, and the consequent future expenses to the town, are 
objections, the weight of which can be as justly estimated by our fellow- 
citizens individually as by ourselves, and consequently with this state- 
ment of the facts we leave the subject for your consideration. 

Charles Wild, 
W. J. Griggs, 
Brooklixk, March 16th, 1S.~>7. WILL. Astixwall. 

(File G, No. 96.) Commit/" . 

On motion of Edward A. Dana, it was — 

Voted, That the town recommends the laying out by the 
County Commissioners of the highway prayed for between 
School street and a point on the Mill Dam in Brookline 
between the gas works and Oakland place, provided that 
Messrs. Thomas and Augustus Aspinwall, or either of them, 
or any other responsible party, will contract with the town 
(if ordered to build said road) to construct said road for one 
thousand dollars, such sum to be paid to such contracting 
party upon the completion and acceptance of said road ; 
provided further, that the time for laying out the stud road 



558 Brookline Toivn Records. 

be extended by the said Aspinwalls to six months, and that 
the other terms and propositions embodied in the report of 
the town's committee as proposed by said Aspinwall be also 
agreed to, and a committee be appointed to meet the Com- 
missioners in behalf of the town to recommend the laying 
out said road, provided the Aspinwalls agree as above ; and 
otherwise, to oppose the same. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourns it be to meet in 
this place two weeks from to-night, at seven o'clock. 

The Fifth Article was then taken up, the subject-matter of 
which was to see what action the town would take in relation 
to an order of notice from the County Commissioners in 
relation to laying out a road from Appleton or Oakland place 
through Brookline to the bridge across Charles River leading 
to Cambridge and Cambridgeport. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are appointed a 
committee to attend to said matter, and look after the inter- 
ests of the town therein. 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the Sixth Article. 

The Seventh and Eighth Articles were then taken up, 
to wit : 

Article Seventh. To see if the town will, under the 305th Chapter of 
the Statutes of 1851, establish and maintain a public library within the 
town for the use of its inhabitants, and provide suitable rooms therefor, 
and prescribe regulations concerning the same, and make appropriations 
for the foundation and commencement and increase thereof. 

Eighth. To see if the town will take any action in respect to calling in 
the School Fund, which was loaned to the town for the erecting of the 
Town Hall in 1845, and appropriate such fund to the erecting of a build- 
ing to contain suitable rooms for an evening school and for the public 
library. 

Voted, That the Seventh and Eighth Articles be referred 
to a committee of five persons, to be appointed by the chair, 
to take the subject into consideration, and report thereon at 
the next meeting. 

The chair accordingly appointed the following gentlemen 
to serve on the aforesaid committee, to wit : Messrs. Edward 



Annual Meeting, March 16, 1857. 559 

A. Dana, Abijah W. Goddard, Samuel Philbrick, George F. 
Homer, and Charles Follen, committee on public library and 
school fund — Seventh and Eighth Articles. 

Article Ninth. To see if the town will purchase a gravel pit on Fair- 
mount or vicinity for the repair of highways, 

— and on motion of Samuel Philbrick, it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three citizens be chosen to 
examine the gravel hills in the vicinity of Fairmount, and if 
any place could be found conveniently accessible containing 
gravel suitable for repairing the public highways that can be 
purchased at a reasonable price, to report to the adjournment 
of this meeting the quality of land, situation, and price for 
which it can be obtained. 

Voted, That said committee be appointed by the chair. 
The chair appointed Messrs. Willard A. Humphrey, Wil- 
liam J. Griggs, and Thomas Parsons, committee on Ninth 
Article. 

Article Tenth. To see if the town Avill purchase a lot of land in rear 
of the Town Hall, lying between the Town Hall and Mechanic place. 

On motion of Samuel Philbrick, it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three citizens be chosen to 
examine the land between the Town House lot and Mechanic 
place, and if found for the use or convenience of the town of 
importance, to ascertain the quality and price for which it 
could be obtained, and report to the adjournment of this 
meeting. 

Voted, That the chair appoint said committee, 
— and the chair appointed the following gentlemen, to wit: 
Messrs. Theophilus P. Chandler, David Wilder, Jr., and 
Charles Stearns, Jr., committee on Tenth Article. 

Voted, To adjourn. 

Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



560 Brookline Town Records. 

In conformity with the laws of this Commonwealth, the 
Town Clerk forthwith made out his warrant and delivered it 
to Constable Augustus Allen, requiring him to summon all 
officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within seven 
days from this date and be sworn to their respective offices, 
where an oath is required b}' law, or to signify their accept- 
ance or refusal of the office to which they were respectively 
chosen. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 
Norfolk, ss. Brookline. 

Then personally appeared the undermentioned and were 
sworn at the time set against their names, or signified their 
acceptance or refusal of the offices to which they had been 
chosen. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

(File G, No. 97.) Town Clerk. 

1857. 

March 17. John A. Bird, declines Cemetery Committee. 

" 18. Charles Smith, sworn Highway Surveyor. 

19. Charles L. Palmer, accepted Fire Ward. 
" 19. Charles W. Scndder, " Auditor. 

20. Edward Atkinson. " " 

20. Thomas Parsons, " School Committee. 

20. Matson M. Smith, 

20. Frederick H: Hedge, decl'd 

" 21. Thomas S. Fettengill, sworn Field Driver. 

21. Thomas S. Fettengill, accepted Cemetery Committee. 
21. John S. Stone, " School Committee. 

" 21. Nehemiah M. Perkins, " " " 

" 21. Augustus Allen, " Fire Ward. 

21. Augustus Allen, " Truant Officer. 

" 21. Stephen Salisbury. " School Committee. 

" 23. Elisha Stone, sworn Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of 

Wood and Bark. 

" 23. J. Davenport, accepted Truant Officer. 

" 23. Charles Pope, " Truant Justice. 

23. Charles D. Head. •• Auditor. 

" 23. T. B. Hay ward, declined School Committee. 

" 23. Clark L. Havnes. sworn Fence Viewer. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 30, 1857. 561 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 30, 1857. 

Agreeable to adjournment, the citizens of the town of 
Brookline assembled in the Town Hall in said town, on Mon- 
day evening* March the 30th, 1857, and were called to order 
at quarter-past seven o'clock. 

The meeting then proceeded to choose the following 
officers to till vacancies, to wit: 

William H. Jameson, Assistant Assessor. 

Thomas S. Pettengill, Highway Surveyor. (Sworn by 
the Moderator.) 

Voted, To reconsider the vote whereby the town voted to 
have five Field Drivers for the ensuing year. 

Voted, That two be the number for the ensuing year. 

Elisha Stone (sworn by the Moderator), David S. Cool- 
idge, and J. Anson Guild, Surveyors of Lumber and Meas- 
urers of Wood and Bark. 

Charles W. To 1 man (sworn by the Moderator), Sealer of 
Leather. 

T. E. Francis and F. W. Prescott, School Committee. 

Oliver Cousens, Fire Ward. 

William Dearborn and Samuel Clark, Cemetery Com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the chair 
to take the whole subject of the Fifth Article into consider- 
ation. (See warrant, p. 550.) 

The chair appointed the following gentlemen, viz., Messrs. 
James Bartlett, Amos A. Lawrence, Augustus Allen, Willard 
A. Humphrey, and William J. Griggs, committee on the 
Fifth Article. 

The Seventh and Eighth Articles were then taken up, and 
Edward A. Dana, chairman of the committee appointed at 
the last meeting to consider the subject-matter of said 
articles, presented the following votes, which were passed, 
to wit, the same being on the Seventh Article. (See war- 
rant. ) 

86 






562 Brookline Town Records. 

Voted, To establish a public library in this town for the 
use of the inhabitants thereof, and to appropriate for the 
foundation and commencement of such library the sum of 
nine hundred and thirty-four dollars, being at the rate of 
one dollar for each of the ratable polls in this town in the 
year next preceding the present year. 

Voted, To appropriate for the maintenance and increase 
of such library for the current year the sum of two hundred 
and thirty-three dollars, the same being the sum authorized 
by the Statutes of this Commonwealth. 

Voted, To assign for the reception of such library and its 
accommodation the hall on the first floor of the Town Hall 
building. 

Voted, To choose annually from the inhabitants twelve 
persons, who shall constitute a Board of Trustees, with 
authority to make suitable regulations for the government 
and management of said library. Said Board of Trustees 
shall select and purchase books and periodicals for the library 
and tit up the room therefor, and have the general charge of 
the library and room. 

Voted, To raise the amount above provided, by taxation 
during the present year. 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the 
Moderator, who shall report to this meeting the names of 
twelve inhabitants to act as the Board of Trustees aforesaid. 

(See file G, No. 98.) 

The chair then appointed for the said committee the fol- 
lowing-named gentlemen, viz., Messrs. James' M. Howe, 
James Bartlett, and Augustus Allen. 

Voted, To indefinitely postpone the Eighth Article. 

Voted, That the sum of three hundred dollars be and 
hereby is appropriated to fit up the room now unoccupied on 
the lower floor of the Town Hall building, for the reception 
and use of the public library. (See appropriations.) 

The committee appointed to select a list of twelve citizens 
to act as a Board of Trustees reported the following list of 
names to the meeting, viz. : Messrs. Thomas Parsons, B. F. 
Baker, James M. Howe, John N. Turner, Amos A. Law- 
rence, Marshall Stearns, T. P. Chandler, F. H. Hedge, D. D., 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 30, 1857. 563 

W. I. Bowditch, James Bartlett, E. A. Dana, and Edward 
Atkinson. 

Voted, That the above-named gentlemen be the Board of 
Trustees of the public library for the ensuing year. 

The Ninth Article was then taken up, and the committee 
appointed thereon presented the following report, to wit : 

REPORT. 
The committee appointed by the town, March 10th, 1857, to examine a 
gravel bank on Fairmount, have attended to that duty, and submit the fol- 
lowing report : 

The lot of land in question, belonging to Mr. Aaron Whitney, is sit- 
uated on the northwest side of Fairmount. and contains about fifty 
thousand feet. The quantity of gravel is very large, of excellent quality, 
easy of access, and can be bought for tire and a half cents per foot. 

Your committee are of the unanimous opinion that it will be for the 
interest of the town to purchase the same. 

\Y. A. Humphrey, 
Thomas Parsons, 
William J. Griggs, 
(File G, No. 99.) Committee. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed 
to purchase the same at five and a half cents per foot. 

Tenth Article taken up. 

The committee to whom this article was referred presented 
the following report, to wit : 

REPORT. 

The committee appointed under the Tenth Article of the warrant for 
the meeting on the 16th inst., respectfully report that the lot of land 
therein referred to lies directly in rear of the Town Hall, about sixty 
feet therefrom, and contains, by estimate, about twenty-two thousand 
feet, being bounded on one side by the Town Hall lot, and on the other 
three sides by public streets. This laud was ottered to the town twelve 
years ago for three cents per square foot. The owner has sold more or 
less gravel from it every year since, and now asks twenty-live cents per 
square foot, and your committee being satisfied the lot will be required 
for town purposes, recommend the town to strike before it goes any 
higher. 

They report the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the Selectmen be and they are hereby authorized to pur- 
chase the lot of land lying between the Town Hall and Mechanic place 
for towm purposes, at twenty-five cents per square foot, and proper 
officers of the town are hereby authorized to execute any papers that the 
case may require. 

All wdiich is respectfully submitted. T. P. Chandler, 

Charles Stearns, Jr., 
Brookline, March 23d, 1857. David Wilder, Jr., 

(File G, No. 100.) Committee. 



564 



Brookline Town Records. 



Voted, To accept and adopt the foregoing report. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized 
to purchase said lot of land at the sum of twenty-five cents 
per square foot. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereb}'- is author- 
ized to borrow a sum not exceeding eleven thousand five 
hundred dollars, to purchase the three lots, to wit : The Fay 
lot adjoining the Pierce school-house lot, the lot in rear of 
the Town Hall, and the gravel lot on Fairmount. 

Eleventh Article taken up : 

To raise and appropriate such sums of mouey as may be necessary to 
defray the expenses of the town for the current year. 



The meeting then proceeded to make the following appro- 
priations, to wit : 



For support of schools 
" " poor 
expense of highways 
lire department . 
county tax . 
state tax 
collecting taxes, $300, (see subsequent vote of $100 ad 



ditional) 
abatement of taxes . 
extinction of town debt 
interest on town debt 
repairs on town buildings 
town officers 
sidewalks . 

paving gutters and relaying draius . 
land damages, widening and grading streets 

cemetery 

ringing bell 

reservoir 

fencing and decorating town land . 
lighting Town Hall and streets 
prosecuting violations of liquor law 
•contingencies ...... 

completing new High school-house . 
completing new addition to Pearl place school- 
police 

foundation and commencement of public library 
maintenance and increase of public library 
fitting up rooms for the reception of public library 



house 



$14,875 


00 


800 


00 


2,000 


00 


700 


00 


6,000 


00 


5,000 


00 


400 


00 


500 


00 


6,500 


00 


3,300 


00 


600 


00 


1,200 


00 


600 


00 


300 


00 


200 


00 


100 


00 


100 


00 


800 


00 


500 


00 


1,200 


(I!) 


200 


00 


2,000 


00 


700 


90 


2,200 


00 


200 


00 


934 


00 


233 


00 


300 


00 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 30, 1857. 565 

Voted, That the sum of four hundred dollars be paid for 
collecting taxes, in full. (See appropriations.) 

Voted, That the sum of three hundred dollars appropri- 
ated for the fitting up of the public library be raised by tax- 
ation the present year. 

On motion of T. P. Chandler the meeting passed the fol- 
lowing resolve : 

Resolved, That the Selectmen be authorized and directed 
forthwith to ascertain at what price all the lots of land lying 
between Washington and School streets and west of Prospect 
street, not owned by the town, can be purchased, and obtain 
written proposals therefor, and that they insert an article in 
the warrant calling the next town meeting, to see what action 
the town will take in relation to purchasing all or any part 
thereof, and that they report their doings at such meeting. 

Adopted. 

Voted, That William I. Bowditch be added to the com- 
mittee. 

Voted, That the Treasurer, Moses Withington, be and 
hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of ten thousand dol- 
lars, in anticipation of taxes. 

Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be to meet at 
this place on the thirteenth day of April next, at seven and 
a half o'clock in the evening. 

Adjourned. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 13, 1857. 

According to adjournment, the citizens of the town of 
Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on the 
evening of Monday, April the thirteenth, A. D. 1857, and 
were called to order at quarter of eight o'clock. 



566 Brookline Town Records. 

The office of Assistant Assessor being declared vacant in 
the Middle District, the meeting proceeded to re-elect Wil- 
liam H. Jameson. 

The committee appointed to take into consideration the 
subject-matter of the Fifth Article and report thereon, pre- 
sented the following report, to wit : 

REPORT. 

The undersigned, a committee appointed at the adjourned annual meet- 
ing of the town, held on Monday evening, March the 30th, 1S57, to take 
into consideration the subject of the Fifth Article in the warrant calling 
said meeting, relating to an order of notice from the County Commis- 
sioners in respect to laying out roads and building bridges across Muddy 
River from Appleton place, so called, in Roxbury to Brookline, would 
make the following report : 

The committee, after viewing the ground and carefully considering 
the subject, came to the conclusion that if the County Commissioners 
should come to the conclusion that the public good requires the laying 
out of a road and a bridge across Muddy River, in the opinion of the 
committee the best place for bridging said river would be at or near the 
Longwood station, connecting Elm street in Roxbury with Kent and 
Beacon streets in Brookline. The river at this point is nor rower than it 
is farther east, and consequently a bridge could be built cheaper and kept 
in repair at a much less expense than if built at a more easterly point. 
The committee are also of the opinion that it would be for the interest 
of both the city of Roxbury and the town of Brookline (if said bridge is 
to be built,) that it be located at this point, as it is already in contempla- 
tion to lay out and build a road from Tremont street in Roxbury to the 
Longwood station in Brookline, and from thence to Harvard street in 
Brookline, making nearly a straight line from Beacon street and Harvard 
street in Brookline to Tremont street in Roxbury, which road is very 
much needed, and can be built at the present time with a trifling expense 
to the town of Brookline ; and the committee believe that the public 
travel from Roxbury or Norfolk County to Cambridgeport across Charles 
River bridge would be as well accommodated by this route as by any 
other, as the distance is but a few rods longer, if any, than it would be 
if the bridge was located further down the river. 

The committee have also received proposals from Messrs. Charles and 
Marshall Stearns, agreeing, if the town will advocate, by a committee or 
otherwise, before the County Commissioners the laying out of the road 
and bridge by Longwood station, and if said road and bridge are ordered 
to be built, that they will give the laud and build the road from SewalTs 
avenue to the bridge and furnish all the gravel that shall be necessary 
for building said road and bridge free of expense to the town. They 
also agree, if a street is laid out from Longwood station to Harvard 
street near the new school-house, to give the land for a road of fifty feet 
in width, and lie at half the expense of building the same. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 13, 1857. 567 

We therefore recommend to the town to appoint a committee to appear 
before the Commissioners and advocate the building of a bridge at Long- 
Avood station, and to oppose the laying out of a road across Swallow 
Pond. 
All or which is respectfully submitted. 

James Bartlett, 
W. A. Humphrey, 
Augustus Allen. 
Brookline, April 13th, 1857. William J. GRIGGS, 

(File G, No. 101.) Committee. 

Voted, To accept the foregoing report. 

Voted, That a committee of five be appointed to appear 
before the County Commissioners and oppose the laying out 
a road across Swallow Pond. 

Voted, That the same committee be and hereby are direct- 
ed to advocate the building of a bridge across Muddy River 
near the Longwood station. 

Voted, That the same committee have charge of this mat- 
ter that have reported thereon, to wit : Messrs. James 
Bartlett, Amos A. Lawrence, Augustus Allen, W. A. 
Humphrey, and William J. Griggs. 

A proposition was here made by the Messrs. Charles and 
Marshall Stearns, to the effect that if the town would advo- 
cate the laying out of the road as prayed for in the petition 
and recommended in the report, and the County Commis- 
sioners shall so lay it out, they will give their land over 
which it passes and be to the expense of making that portion 
of the road. 

Voted, That the committee be and hereby are instructed 
to advocate the further extension of said road to Beacon 
street, provided that it is without any expense to the town. 

Voted, That if the bridge across Muddy River be built, 
the Selectmen are hereby requested to lay out a new road 
from Harvard street to the bridge. 

Voted, That the same committee appear before the County 
Commissioners and advocate the laying out of the road and 
bridge. 

Dissolved. * 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



568 BrookHne Town Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 1, 1857. 
Constitutional Amendments. 



WARRANT. 

[seal.] 

[seal!] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Friday, the first day of May 
next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and 
place the polls will be opened, and kept open not less than 
two hours, for the following purposes, to wit : 

To bring in their votes to the Selectmen on the proposed Articles of 
Amendment to the Constitution, each article to be voted for separately 
on one ballot, as follows, viz. : 

On the First Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 

On the Second Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 

On the Third Article of Amendment, Yes or No. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this sixteenth 
day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 

Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, April 24th, 1857. 

In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the 
legal voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and 



-Special Meeting, May 1, 1857. 569 

for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same 

at their last and usual place of residence. 

Elisiia Stone, 

(File G, No. 102.) Constable of Brookline. 

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town 
of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on 
Friday, May the first, A. D. 1857, and were called to order 
by James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, at three 
o'clock in the afternoon. 

The warrant and return thereon was then read by the 
Town Clerk. 

The polls were then opened to receive votes, and were 
kept open until fifteen minutes past five o'clock, when, by 
vote, they were declared closed, and the Selectmen and 
Town Clerk proceeded to sort and count the votes, and the 
whole number was one hundred and ninety-nine, and were 
as follows, to wit : 

On the First Article of Amendment : Yeas, one hundred and forty (140) ; 
Nays, tifty-nine (59). 

On the Second Article of Amendment: Yeas, sixteen (1C) ; Nays, thirty- 
two (32). 

On the Third Article of Amendment : Yeas, one hundred and eighty- 
eight (1S8) ; Nays, eight (8). 

The votes were counted, recorded, and declaration thereof 
made, and they were then sealed up in open town meeting 
and delivered to the Town Clerk to transmit to the Secretary 
of State. 

In voting the check-list was used, and no voter was 
allowed to deposit his vote until his name was found and 
checked. 

The business of the meeting being all accomplished, it was 
declared dissolved, by James Bartlett, Chairman of the 
Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest: B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



570 Brookline Town Records. 



SPECIAL MEETING, JUNE 3, 1857. 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 
SEAL. 



WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Toivn of Broohline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notif}' and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the third day 
of June next, at five of the clock in the afternoon, for the 
following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To hear and act upon an order of notice from the County 
Commissioners in respect to laying out a highway from Perkins or Cot- 
tage street in Brookline through Goddard avenue to the town of West 
Roxbury. 

Third. To hear and act upon an order of notice from the County 
Commissioners in respect to laying out a road from Heath • street to 
Newton street, in Brookline. 

Fourth. To hear and act upon the request of Eliakim Littell in rela- 
tion to purchasing land for a common for the town. 

Fifth. To hear and act upon the request of Eliakim Littell in respect 
to establishing evening schools for teaching adults to read and write. 

Sixth. To see if the town will pass a by-law concerning the removal 
of the engine from the engine-house by any person or persons not duly 
authorized, and concerning malicious interference with the buildings, 
fixtures, or apparatus, belonging to the fire department, and to provide 
penalty for breach of such by-law. 

Seventh. To see if the town will pass a by-law concerning the rate of 
speed at which any beast may be driven through the ways or streets or 
avenues of the town, and to provide penalties for breach of such by-law. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 



Sjiecial Meeting, June 3, 1857. 571 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this fifth day 
of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 
. Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams. 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, May 30th. 1857. 

In pursuance of the -within warrant, I have notified and -warned the 
legal voters of the town to meet at the time and place and for the pur- 
poses within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last 
and usual places of residence. 

Elisiia Stone, 

(File G, No. 103.) Constable of Brookline. 

In conformity with the foregoing warrant, the citizens of 
the town of Brookline assembled in the Town Hall in said 
town, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the third day of June, 
A. D. 1857, and were called to order at fifteen minutes past 
five o'clock, by the Town Clerk, who proceeded to read the 
warrant and return thereon, as above given. 

First Article taken up : "To choose a Moderator," — the 
Town Clerk presiding. 

Voted, To choose a Moderator by nomination, 
— and the meetino; nominated and chose for Moderator of 
the meeting, William I. Bowditch, who took the chair. 

Second Article taken up : 

To hear and act upon an order of notice from the County Commission- 
ers in respect to laying out a highway from Perkins or Cottage street in 
Brookline through Goddard avenue to the town of West Roxbury. 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to meet the 
County Commissioners and look after the interests of the 
town, and act according to their discretion. 

Voted, That four additional members be added to said 
committee, to be appointed by the chair. 

The chair appointed the following gentlemen, viz. : Messrs. 
Samuel Philbrick, Willard A. Humphrey, Thomas Parsons, 
and Augustus Allen. 



572 Brookline Toivn Records. 

The members of the committee are as follows : Messrs. 
James Bartlett, Marshall Stearns, Howard S. Williams, 
Samuel Philbrick, Willard S. Humphrey, Thomas Parsons, 
and Augustus Allen, committee to appear before the County 
Commissioners on new road. 

Third Article taken up : 

To hear and act upon an order of notice from the County Commission- 
ers in respect to laying out a road from Heath to Newton street in 
Brookline. 

Voted, That the subject be referred to the committee 
already chosen to take charge of the Second Article, and to 
oppose the laying out of the same if it is to cost the town 
over fifteen hundred dollars. 

Fourth Article taken up : 

To hear and act upon the request of Eliakim Littell in relation to pur- 
chasing land for a common for the town. 

Voted, That a committee of seven citizens be appointed 
by the chair to take the whole subject into consideration, 
and report thereon at a future meeting. 

The chair appointed the following-named gentlemen to 
constitute said committee, viz. : Messrs. Eliakim Littell, 
Samuel Philbrick, Amos A. Lawrence, William Bramhall, 
W. A. Wellman, T. P. Chandler, and Thomas Parsons. 

Fifth Article taken up : 

To hear and act upon the request of Eliakim Littell in respect to estab- 
lishing evening schools for teaching adults to read and Avrite. 

Voted, That the subject of this article be left to the School 
Committee, to establish an adult school if they in their 
judgment think that such a school is needed in this town. 

Sixth Article taken up : 

To see if the town will pass a by-law concerning the removal of the 
engine from the engine-house by any person or persons not duly author- 
ized, and concerning malicious interference with the building, fixtures, 
or apparatus belonging to the fire department, and to provide penalty for 
breach of such by-law. 



Special Meeting, Jane 3, 1857. 573 

George F. Homer then offered the following by-law : 

A By-Law concerning the Engine, Exgixe-Hou.se, and other prop- 
erty THEREUNTO BELONGING, IX THE TtjWX OF BROOKLIXE. 

Sectiox 1. No person shall willfully and without right take away or 
cause to be removed from any engine-house or other building in this 
town, or in any manner maliciously interfere with any fire-engine, hose- 
carriage, ladder-carriage, or any hooks, ladders, hose, or other apparatus 
for extinguishing fires or connected with any engine company (said prop- 
erty belonging to the town I, without the consent of the Fi rewards or some 
one of the Selectmen of the town. And every person offending against 
the provisions of this section shall be liable to pay a fine of not less than 
five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each ortence, to be paid 
into the treasury of the town; provided, however, that nothing in this 
section shall be so construed as to apply to any case where the taking of 
such property is with the intent to steal the same. 

Sectiox 2. No person shall willfully and without right enter into any 
of the buildings belonging to this town which are used for engine-houses 
or the storage of apparatus connected with extinguishing fires, without 
the consent of the Firewards or officers of any engine company or one 
Selectman of the town, and any person offending against the provisions 
of this section shall be liable to a fine not less than live dollars nor more 
than twenty dollars for each offence, to be paid into the treasury of the 
town ; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed 
as to apply to any case where the entry is with intent to commit 
larceny. 

(File G, No. 104.) 

Seventh Article taken up : 

To see if the town will pass a by-law concerning the rate of speed at 
which any beast may be driven through the ways or streets or avenues 
of the town, and provide penalties for breach of such by-law. 

George F. Homer then offered the following by-law, 
to wit : 

A By-Law coxcerxixg Travel ix the Streets ix Brooklixe. 

No person having charge of any beast with intent to drive the same, 
shall sutler or permit any such beast to run, gallop, trot, or go at any 
rate exceeding eight miles to the hour through any way, avenue, or street 
in this town, and if any person shall violate the provisions of this by-law 
he or she shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more 
than twenty dollars for each offence, to be paid into the town 
treasury. 

(File G, No. 105.) 



574 



Brookline Town Records. 



Voted, That the above by-laws be accepted, and that the 
Selectmen procure, in behalf of the town, the approval 
thereof by the Court of Common Pleas, according to law. 

Voted, To dissolve this meeting. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1857. 



Thomas M. Cofran 
John Drew 
Ira A. Stubbs 
John A. Burnham 
William Almy 
Amos A. Lawrence 
Thomas B. Hall 
William A. Bangs 
Thomas Gray 
Gorham Gray 
Frederick Almy 
Patrick Carrol 
Moses J. Mandell 
George Griggs 
John K. Rogers 
Daniel W. Rogers 
Richard Buleer 



Isaac Dearborn 
David S. Coolidge 
John Hammond 
James W. Coolidge 
Shadrach Robinson 
William J. Griggs 
Henry A. Upham 
William D. Coolidge 
William T. Bramhall 
Thomas Bramhall 
Josiah Gooding 
Charles F. Huntington 
John H. Dane 
Beuj. F. Dane 
Isaac D. Hayward 
William J. Swift 
Edward C. Wilson 



GrauvillT.W. Bramham George Brooks 



Henry Blaney 
John W. Griggs 
William B. Chaplin 
Sanmel Page 
Henry Richardson 
Henry Lincoln 
William II. Lincoln 
George M. Dexter 
Charles U. Cotting 
John Mitchell 
John Lawton 
Charles H. Ford 
Lewis B. Doe 
William H. Foster 
Alonzo Farrar 
Edward G. Parker 
Richard Soule, Jr. 
Frederick W. Prescott 
Charles II. Stearns 



Charles E. Abbott 
William Pope 
David H. Daniels 
William H. Haseltine 
Thomas S. Pettingill 
George F. Homer 
James W. Jones 
Charles Bnrrell 
Isaac Taylor 
Daniel H. Rogers 
Charles Seaverns 
David T. Keurick 
George Stoddard 
Charles W. Smith 
Edward R. Seccomb 
William II. Jameson 
Franklin L. Brett 
T. Henry Perkins 
A. B. Hardy 



William Lamb 
Timothy Corey 
Calvin D. Crawford 
James Bartlett 
Calvin W. Porter 
F. Henx-y Corey 
Edward Downing 
Theodore Downing 
Samuel A. Robinson 
Thomas B. Griggs 
George Johnson 
George B. Blake 
John W. Candler 
William Lincoln 
Charles H. Wheelwright 
Charles W. Tolman 
James Rooney 
Nathan Wheeler 
Matthew Binner 
Charles Magee 

A. Stanly 

B. Mansfield 

Fifield 

Mosmau 

Stephen Libby 
William Cooper 
Charles Perry 
M. Taylor 
Alfred Brown 

Norton 

Amos BroAvn 
Francis Edmond 
Albert S. Adams 
Bradford Kingman 
Moses Amory 
Charles L. Palmer 
Jonathan P. Sanborn 



Militia List, 1857. 



575 



Arthur Treanor 
Philip Lenimist 
Oran H. Boynton 
Henry Pattee 
William Stearns 
Robert S. Davis 
Benj'n W. Hobart, Jr. 
Edwin Field 
James M. Seamans 
Tappan Eustis Francis 
Elijah C. Emerson 
George E. Carlton 
( (liver B. Delano 
Daniel W. Atkinson 
James A. Dupee 
Willard Onion 
Charles Sampson 
Henry Gallup 
Alvin A. Rice 
John A. Willard 
William Nash 
Augustus Allen 
John A. Fairbanks 
John H. Webber 
Michael Griffin 
William W. Perry 
William K. Melcher 
Jona. D. Long 
John O. Libby , 
Samuel L. Lyford 
Nathaniel W. Brackett 
Joseph Turner 
Joseph S. Turner 
John Dustin 
Charles T. Brackett 
Alex. H. Clapp 
Sylvester Kimball 
George Butters, Jr. 
John A spin wall 
Mears M. Orcutt 
George H. Peck 
William H. Barnard 
Charles Townsend 
Charles Chase 
Royal Woodward 
Patrick Kerrigan 
Edward Leahy 
Michael Gleason 
Daniel Duffley 
Joseph Roy 



Lucius K. Miles 
Lowell M. Miles 
D. Augustus Griggs 
Horace James 
Edward Lamb 
Thomas Dillon 
Francis Mahan 
Michael Mahoney 
Michael O'Herne 
Stephen Ryan 
Thomas Walsh 
Patrick McDermot 
Patrick McAvoy 
Cornelius O'Herne 
Michael Keegan 
.Tames Driscoll 
Michael Hickey 
John McNamara 
John E. Horr 
Ransom N. Weld 
Alex. C. Studley 
Reuben A. Chace 
George F. Whiting 
James R. Burdett 
Walter Lawton 
George B. Chamberlin 
Edward F. Head 
William Aspinwall 
Frank M. Lyford 
Philip Allen 
Cofran 

Cofran 

Young 

Oliver Cousens 
John E. Cousens 
Alonzo Bowman 
Henry H. Blake 
Horace Hatch 
William O. Churchill 
John C. Cook 
Peter W. Pierce 
Hanson 

O. B. French 
Charles P. Trowbridge 
Henry Collins 
Seth W. Fowle 
Charles Ingalls 
Martin Leonard 
George H. Townsend 
William Tawfe 



Edwin Clark 
James M. Alger 
Michael Butler 
Michael Mahan 
George N. Dana 
David Dugan 
Edward A. Dana 
Moses C. Warren 
Augustus Hatchelder 
Albert A. Cobb 
William F. Tuckerman 
Frederick J. Williams 
Nathaniel Lyford 
Charles Haughtou 
George E. Bogman 
George W. Haven 
Charles B. Dana 
Sargent M. Davis 
George G. Stoddard 
Howard S. Williams 
Andrew J. Harrington 
Charles Pope 
James J. Walworth 
George E. Hersey 
Thomas H. Bacon 
Isaac N. Jackson 
Moses Jones, Jr. 
George G. Pope 

A. Rosman Walker 
E. Clifford Walker 
James M. Edmonds 
Seth B. Poole 
William B. Town 
Richard Hills 
Alfred Keurick, Jr. 

B. F. Baker 
John P. Marquand 
Daniel S. Kendall 
Albert Baldwin 
Edward C. Broadhead 
John Kilroy 
Charles H. Heath 
Augustine Shurtleff 
John Dean 
Lawrence Kelly 
Maurice Dee 

John Kelley 
Dennis Mahoney 
John Park 
Ansel H. Waterman 






576 



BrooMine Town Records. 



Isaac B. Chaplin 
Michael Conway 
Timothy Croaning 
William Mullen 
John Murphy 
George W. Stearns 
George W. Hancock 
Charles W. Rice 
Dennis Mahoney 
Terrance McGuire 
M. P.Kennard 
Henry Lee, Jr. 
Willard A. Humphrey 
James Dolan 
Francis K. Fisher 
H. N. Fisher 
Charles Smith 
Hiram Ring 
E. Thomas Penniman 
Samuel L. Cutter 
Silas H. Langley 
Samuel Townsencl, Jr. 
Eben'r W. Reed 
John Harn 
Eli D. Sanderson 
Charles H. Hawes 
Edward Atkinson 
George F. Wild 
John H. Henshaw 
Francis Henshaw 
Richard Nichols 
William Rooney 
Dennis Bowman 
Charles C. Follen 
Joseph G. Batchelder 
Joseph L. White 
William M. Kee 
James Lealand 
John L. Sherriff 
Thomas C. Quimby 
Thomas Townsend 
Charles G. Colbath 
William J. Hyde 
Samuel D. Hills 
Lorenzo Stephens 



W. H. Leonard 
Robert Barnett 
Edward Cabot 
J. Elliot Cabot 
Thomas Miskill 
James H. Clark 
James Cowan 
Lonard Loker 
George H. Nelson 
John W. Warren 
Simon Warren 
Antwine Parker 
George R. Phelps 
William D. Gocldard 
Horace T. Palmer 
Charles D. Head 
Henry Whitney 
Horatio A. Hovey 
James Ward 
Rufus S. Allen 
Charles G. Howard 
John D. Hayward 
Nathaniel G. Chapin 
George Bacon 
Robert Poole 
James M. Howe 
Benjamin H. Cook 
Benjamin W. Clark 
Samuel Clark 
William Bird, 2d 
John A. Bird 
William S. Wilson 
Benjamin S. Kendall 
John H. A. Tapan 
Moses B. Williams 
Moses M. Judkins 
William H. Slocum 
Samuel Chase 
George Atkinson 
Edward S. Philbrick 
William D. Philbrick 
Joseph W. Goddard 
William C. Wharton 
William G. Weld 
William W. Cook 
A. B. Shedd 



J. Wingate Thornton 

Edward H. Chamberlin Thos. Chamberlin 

George F. Wardsworth 

Recorded and returned July, 1857. 
(File G, No. 106.) 



Charles F. Foster 
Abraham H. Lambert 
Charles Warren 
Levi Titus 
Francis G. Faxon 
Ebenezer Wright 
Richard Smith 
Michael Downs 
Benjamin Leeds, Jr. 
George Stone 
J. Anson Guild 
John Noonan 
Dennis Driscoll 
John S. Woods 
Henry A. Bigelow 
Willard Y. Gross 
James Keenan 
Frederick A. Derby 
Charles Allen 
Daniel Clark 
G. Homer Morse 
Nathaniel Gill 
Charles Pierce 
Henry Orcutt, Jr. 
Marshall Russell 
John D. Kelley 
Elisha Jacobs 
Abraham L. Cutler 
Clark S. .pixby 
Charles D. Kellogg 
George W. Rollins 
Henry Eetine 
Joseph Gutterson 
Charles P. Gardner 
Edward Ager 
Xanthus Goodnough 
George Craft 
Charles Craft 
Albert Clifford 
George Stewart 
Frank Webber 
Thomas Parsons 
Waldo P. Maynard 
Wilder Dwight 
James O'Connell 
Moses Withington 
Otis Vinal 



Attest: B. F. 



Baker. 
Town Clerk. 



Special Meeting, September 14, 1857. 577 



SPECIAL MEETING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1857. 



WARRANT. 

rsBA^i Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal.] 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the fourteenth day 
of September next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, 
for the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see what action the town will take in relation to the new 
road as laid out by the Selectmen, from Longwood station to Harvard 
street. 

Third. To take into consideration the widening of Washington street, 
and act thereon. 

Fourth. To see what action the town will take in relation to the new 
cemetery on Heath street, in the westerly part of the town. 

Fifth. To see what action the town will take in the suit of George F. 
Williams against the town of Brookline. 

Sixth. To raise and appropriate the sums of money required for the 
construction of the different county or town roads about to be built. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 

Selectmen of Brookline. 

37 



578 Brookline Town Records. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, September 10th, 1857. 

In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the 
inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to 
meet at the time and place and for the purposes within named, by leav- 
ing a printed notice of the same at their last and usual place of residence. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. 107.) Constable of Brookline. 

In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the 
town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, 
on the afternoon of Monday, the fourteenth day of Septem- 
ber, A. D. 1857, and were called to order at fifteen minutes 
past three o'clock, by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant 
calling said meeting, and the return thereon, and presided 
during the choice of a Moderator. 

On motion — 

Voted, That the Moderator be chosen by ballot. 

The polls being opened and votes called for, the meeting 
proceeded to deposit their ballots, and the whole number 
was seventeen, all for William I. Bowditch, who was declared 
elected, and he took the chair. 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up : 

To see what action the town will take in relation to the new street as 
laid out by the Selectmen, from Longwood station to Harvard street. 

Mr. James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented 
the following report : 

REPOET ON LAYING OUT OF THE NEW TOWNWAY FROM 
HARVARD STREET TO THE LONGWOOD STATION. 

The Selectmen of Brookline having given written notice of their inten- 
tions to lay out a new townway from Harvard street to the new highway 
laid out by the County Commissioners near the Longwood station of the 
Brookline Branch of the Boston and Worcester Railroad, on the twenty- 
second day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, at nine o'clock 
in the forenoon, at the Longwood station, by leaving said notice at the 
usual place of abode of the owners of land over which road was pro- 
posed to be laid out. seven days at least previous to the said twenty- 
second day of August, that all persons concerned might then and there 
appear for or against the laying out of said way, if they saw fit. 

In conformity with said notice, the Selectmen met at the Longwood 
station, the place appointed, on Saturday, the said twenty-second day of 



Special Meeting, September 14, 1857. 579 

August, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, and no party appearing to 
object to the laying out of said way, they proceeded to lay out and did 
lay out the same as follows, to wit : 

Beginning at a stake on Harvard street, near the junction of Pleasant 
street, and running southeasterly through land of Charles Stearns two 
hundred and forty-eight feet and three-tenths to Sewall's avenue ; thence 
by the same line across Sewall's avenue thirty feet to land of Charles 
Stearns ; thence by the same line through land of Charles Stearns one 
thousand seven feet eight-tenths to a stake; thence turning more easterly 
by an angle of one hundred seventy-six degrees thirty-three minutes 
through laud of Charles Stearns eight hundred seventeen feet to land of 
Charles Stearns, Jr., and Marshall Stearns; thence by the same line 
through land of Charles Stearns, Jr., and Marshall Stearns eighty-three 
feet to a stake; thence turning more easterly by an angle of one hundred 
seventy-two degress forty-seven minutes through land of Charles 
Stearns, Jr., and Marshall Stearns eighty-one feet to a stake, completing 
the northerly line of said way. The southerly line is fifty feet distant 
and parallel to it, and begins at a stake on Harvard street feet dis- 
tant from the first mentioned point of beginning, and runs southerly 
through land of Charles Stearns two hundred nineteen feet to Sewall's 
avenue; thence by the same line across Sewall's avenue thirty feet to 
the land of Charles Stearns ; thence by the same line through land of 
Charles Stearns one thousand twenty-two feet four-tenths to a stake; 
thence turning more easterly by an angle of one hundred seventy-six 
degrees thirty-three minutes through land of Charles Stearns one hun- 
dred eight feet five-tenths to land of Augustus Aspinwall ; 1 hence by the 
same line through land of Augustus Aspinwall three hundred eighty- 
seven feet to land of Charles Stearns ; thence by the same line through 
land of Charles Stearns three hundred forty-two feet one-tenth to land 
of Charles Stearns, Jr., and Marshall Stearns sixty-seven feet to a stake; 
thence turning more easterly by an angle of one hundred seventy-two 
degrees forty-seven minutes through land of Charles Stearns, Jr., and 
Marshall Stearns one hundred and four feet to a stake, completing the 
southerly line of said way, according to and agreeable with a survey 
and plan of the same made by T. B. Moses, of Eoxbury, dated August 
the 25th, 1857, and approved and deposited in the office of the Town 
Clerk, August 31st, 1857, at least seven days before this meeting. 

The Selectmen have taken land for the purpose of making said road as 
follows, to wit : Land of Charles Stearns, ninety-four thousand six 
hundred and seventy-one square feet; land of Charles Stearns, Jr., and 
Marshall Stearns, eight thousand three hundred and seventy-five square 
feet; land of Augustus Aspinwall, nine thousand eight hundred and 
twelve square feet. The land taken for said way belonging to the 
Messrs. Stearns, they relinquish to the town for that purpose without 
reward, and they have also agreed in writing to make and grade one-half 
of the said way suitable for public travel, in conformity with the plan 
of the same, free of any charge whatever to the town. The land taken 
for said way belonging to Augustus Aspinwall is by him relinquished 
to the town for that purpose without fee or reward therefor from the 



580 Brookline Town Records. 

town, for the above reasons and because the benefit to the owners of 
said lands is greater than the damages sustained by them in consequence 
of laying out of said townway. Therefore no compensation is awarded 
them for the land taken for said way. 

The Selectmen will allow the owners of the land over which said way 
passes, twenty days from the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hun- 
dred and fifty-seven, to remove all fences, walls and trees therefrom, 
at the expiration of which time the town will enter upon and make and 
grade said street, and have it put in order for the public travel by the 
first day of December next. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearxs, 
Brookline, Sept. 14th, 1857. Howard S. Williams, 

(File G, No. 108.) Selectmen of Brookline. 

Voted, To accept the foregoing report and adopt the same. 
The Third Article in the warrant was then taken up : 

To take into consideration the widening of Washington street. 

It was — 

Voted, That the Selectmen, on behalf of the town, apply 
to the County Commissioners to locate anew and widen 
Washington street. 

Fourth Article taken up, in relation to the new cemetery 
on Heath street. 

Voted, That the town hereby consents to the use as a 
cemetery of the lot of land on Heath street owned by J. M. 
Finotti, subject, however, to such regulations as the Board of 
Health may from time to time legally establish. 

Fifth Article considered — the suit of George F. Williams, 
of AYest Roxbury, against the town, to recover a tax assessed 
upon him and paid as the trustee of the property of Mrs. 
Richard Bradley. 

Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the Select- 
men, to take counsel, and on such advice take such steps as 
they may think expedient. 

Sixth Article. To raise and appropriate the sums of money required 
for the construction of the different county or town roads about to be 
built. 

Voted, That of the sum appropriated for the construction 
of the new highway from School street to the Mill Dam 



Sj>ecial Meeting, September 14, 1857. 581 

road, the sura of one thousand dollars be paid to Col. 
Thomas Aspinwall, in such sums as shall be called for by 
him, provided that at all times there shall be accomplished 
work to double the amount called for. 

Voted, That the Treasurer of the town, Moses Withing- 
ton, be and hereby is authorized to borrow for the town the 
sum of fifty-three hundred dollars, and to give the note or 
notes of the town therefor, in such sums and at such times 
as it may be called for by the Selectmen, and that said sum 
be raised and appropriated for the following purposes, 
to wit : 

For the making and completing one-half of the new town- 
way from Harvard street to the Longwood station . $900 00 

For the town's part of the road from Harvard street, oppo- 
site School street, to the western branch of the Mill 
Dam road, through laud of Col. Thomas Aspinwall . 1,000 00 

For building and completing the town's part of the bridge 

across Muddy River, near the Longwood station . . 3,400 00 



Total $5,300 00 

Voted, That the Selectmen be a committee to take charge 
of the making of the road and bridge (on the same) to be 
made by the Messrs. Thomas and Augustus Aspinwall, as 
ordered by the County Commissioners. 

Voted, That in the opinion of this meeting the Selectmen 
are authorized to light lamps in private streets and ways. 
Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



582 Brookline Town Records. 



GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1857. 



WARRANT. 

[seal!] Common wealth of Massachusetts. 

[seal. J 

Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of 
the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet 
at the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the third day of 
November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first 
Monday in said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, to 
give in their votes to the Selectmen for the following State 
officers, to wit : 

A Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary, Treasurer 
and Receiver-General, Auditor, and Attorney-General ; also 
a Councillor for Council District Number Six, one Senator 
for the North Norfolk District, and a Representative for the 
Third Representative District of the County of Norfolk, con- 
sisting of the town of Brookline, being the number appoint- 
ed to said district according to law, also one County Com- 
missioner for the County of Norfolk ; all to be voted for on 
one ballot. The polls to be kept open not less than two 
hours. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of .said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this 
twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord 
eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 



General Election, November 3, 1857. 583 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, October 30th, 1857. 

In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the 
legal voters of the town to meet at the time and place and for the pur- 
poses within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last 

and usual places of residence. 

Elisha Stone, 

(File G, No. 109.) Constable of Brookline. 



Agreeable with the foregoing warrant, the legal voters of 
the town of Brookline assembled in the Town Hall on the 
afternoon of Tuesday, November the third, eighteen hun- 
dred and fifty-seven, and were called to order at one o'clock 
by James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen. 

The Town Clerk then read the warrant and the return 
thereon. 

Voted, That the polls be kept open until seven o'clock. 

The polls were then opened and kept open until seven 
o'clock, at which time they were declared closed, agreeable 
to the vote passed, and the Selectmen and Town Clerk pro- 
ceeded to sort and count the ballots, and the whole number 
was four hundred and sixty-eight ; and the whole number of 
votes were sorted, counted, recorded, and declaration thereof 
made in open town meeting, and were for the following- 
named persons, to wit : 

For Governor: Four hundred sixty-seven. 
Henry J. Gardner, of Boston, had two hundred and seven. 
Erasmus D. Beech, of Springfield, had one hundred forty-one. 
Nathaniel P. Banks, of Waltham, had one hundred and nineteen. 

For Lieutenant-Governor : Four hundred sixty-five. 
Alexander DeWitt, of Oxford, two hundred and ten. 
Albert Currier, of Newburyport, one hundred and forty-three, 
Eliphalet Trask, of Springfield, one hundred and twelve. 

For Secretary of the Commonwealth : Four hundred sixty-five. 
Benjamin L. Allen, of Boston, two hundred and eight. 
Jonathan E. Field, of Stockbridge, one hundred forty-five. 
Oliver Warner, of Northampton, one hundred and twelve. 

For Treasurer and Receiver-General : Four hundred sixty-five. 
Moses Teuney, of Georgetown, one hundred and fourteen. 
Charles Thompson, of Charlestown, one hundred forty-three. 
Timothy Ingraham, of New Bedford, two hundred and eight. 



584 Broohline Town Records. 

For Auditor : Four hundred and sixty-five. 
Chandler E. Ransom, of Roxbury, two hundred and twelve. 
Charles White, of Worcester, one hundred and twelve. 
Seymour L. Mead, of Nantucket, one hundred forty-one. 

For Attorney- General : Four hundred and sixty-four. 

John H. Clifford, of New Bedford, two hundred and eighteen. 
Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, one hundred and seven. 
Ezra Wilkinson, of Dedham, one hundred and thirty-nine. 

Councillor for District No. Six : Four hundred sixty-eight. 
Amos A. Lawrence, of Brookline, two hundred and twenty-six. 
Andrew H. Ward, of Newton, one hundred thirty-seven. 
Charles R. Train, of Framingham, one hundred and four. 
R. Hill, of Brookline, one. 

For Senator for North Norfolk District: Four hundred fifty-nine. 
John N. Turner, of Brookline, two hundred and fifteen. 
Henry W. Benchley, of Dorchester, one hundred and two. 
Daniel D. Broadhead, of Brookline, one hundred forty-one. 
James A. Dupee, one. 

For County Commissioner : Four hundred and sixty-three. 
Nathan Burr, of Bellingham, two hundred and nine. 
John Fisher, of Dedham, one hundred and forty-one. 
Lucas Pond, of Wrentham, one hundred and thirteen, 

Representative to the General Court from District No. Three: Four 
hundred sixty-one. 
John H. Wakefield, one hundred and one. 
Harrison Fay, one hundred and forty. 
A. W. Goddard, one. 

Thomas Parsons, two hundred and nineteen, and was declared elected 
from said District No. Three, consisting of the town of Brookline. 

In voting the check-list was used, and no one was suffered 
to deposit his vote until his name was checked. 

The business being all accomplished, the returns were 
tilled up and signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk and 
declaration thereof made in open town meeting, and delivered 
to the Town Clerk to forward to their various destinations. 
The meeting was declared dissolved, by the Chairman of the 
Selectmen. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



SEAL. 

SEAL. 
SEAL. 



Special Meeting, December 7, 1857. 585 



SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 7, 1857. 

WARRANT. 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Norfolk, ss. 

To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, 

Greeting : 

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you 
are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the 
town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at 
the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the seventh day of 
December next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, for 
the following purposes, to wit : 

First. To choose a Moderator. 

Second. To see what action the town will take in respect to continu- 
ing a police and night watch, and raise and appropriate money to defray 
the expense of the same. 

Third. To see what action the town will take in relation to lighting 
lamps in streets and places not accepted by the town as public ways. 

Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with 
your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. 

Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twenty- 
eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen 
hundred and fifty-seven. 

James Bartlett, 
Marshall Stearns, 
Howard S. Williams, 
Selectmen of Brookline. 

Norfolk, ss. Brookline, December 3d, 1857. 

By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the legal voters of the 
town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes 
within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last and 
usual place of residence. 

Elisha Stone, 
(File G, No. 110.) Constable of Brookline. 

37* 






586 Brookline Town Records. 

In pursuance with the foregoing warrant, the citizens of 
the town of Brookline assembled at the time and place 
named, and were called to order by the Town Clerk, who 
read the warrant and return thereon, and presided during 
the choice of a Moderator. 

T. P. Chandler was nominated and chosen Moderator, and 
took the chair. 

The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and 
on motion it was — 

Voted, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars 
be raised and appropriated to defray the expense of the 
police during the present year, under the direction of the 
Selectmen. 

Article Third taken up, — to see if the town would light 
lamps on places and ways not accepted by the town. 

On motion of W. I. Bowditch — 

Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized, 
in their discretion, to light lamps erected by the citizens in 
ways not accepted by the town. 

Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- 
ized to borrow the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars 
to defray the expense of the police, at such times and in 
such sums as may be called for by the Selectmen, and to 
give the note or notes of the town therefor. 

Voted , That the Selectmen be authorized to use the police 
force by night or by day, as they may deem it necessary for 
the protection of the town. 

Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the 
Moderator to appear before the County Commissioners on 
the seventeenth inst., and to attend to the subject of widen- 
ing Washington street. 

The chair appointed the following gentlemen, viz. : Messrs. 
James Bartlett, William Aspinwall, and George B. Blake. 

Mr. Aspinwall declined to serve, and the meeting chose 
Mr. T. P. Chandler in his place. 

On motion of Marshall Stearns, it was — 

Voted, That two be added to the committee, 
— and Messrs. William Aspinwall and Moses Withington 



Special Meeting, December 7, 1857. 587 

were appointed. The committee was thus composed of the 
following-named gentlemen : Messrs. James Bartlett, George 
B. Blake, T. P. Chandler, William Aspinwall, and Moses 
Withington, committee to attend to the widening of Wash- 
ington street. 

Dissolved. 

Attest : B. F. BAKER, 

Town Clerk. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Amendments to the Constitution — 

Vote on, April 6, 1840 

November 14, 1853 

May 23, 1855 

May 1, 1857 

Annexation of part of Roxbury to Brookline — 

Committee to investigate petition for, 1841 

Report of above Committee .... 

Representative to inform Legislature concerning 

Petition of Lyon, with order of notice, 1843 . . . < 

Acceeded to, and Representative instructed 
Petition of Lyon, with order of notice, 1844 . . 101 

Acceeded to ........ 

Petition of Homer, 1850, (no action taken) . . 309 

Anniversary of Brookline, third semi-centennial — 

Committee to consider celebration of, 1855 .... 

Report of Committee ....... 

Appropriations : 

Books of Treasurer and Selectmen to show expenditures 
and balances, 1851 ....... 

Selectmen given authority to increase by adding from con- 
tingencies ......... 

Appropriations, by subjects : 

Abatement of taxes, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432. 166, 510, 



230 

333, 341, 355, 504, 507 

485 

I".).". 

355, 31)7, 432 
273, 275, 281 



Aspinwall avenue .... 
Assessing and collecting taxes 
Beacon street .... 

Stopping tide-waters from . 
Blasting rocks, grading and completing streets 
Books of reference, for schools . 
Boylston street, widening of ... 
Bradley Hill, lowering grade 
Bridge, Cypress street, repairs of 

Longwood avenue 

Buildings, repairs of and fuel for, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 

4<;<3, 510. 529 

By-Laws, printing of 

Cemetery 323, 355, 432, 4(37, 510, 529 

Cemetery Committee ....... 29, 33 

'Cemetery, capping front wall ...... 



27 
44(3 
512 
569 

33 
36 
36 

6, (17 

(38 

, 102 

103 

, 318 

502 
507 



354 
385 

529, 
564 
581 

, 2(38 

, 509 
486 
312 
466 
466 
397 
125 
581 

432, 
564 
228 
564 
397 
34 



11 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Appropriations by subjects — continued. 

Chandeliers and desk for Town Hall 

Collecting taxes, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432, 466, 510, 529, 5(14, 

Committees, Bradley Hill, lowering grade .... 
Constructing drain, Washington street 
Grade crossing, B. & W. R. R. . . 504, 507, 509. 

Grade crossings 

Grammar school-house, building of . 

Contingencies, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432, 466, 510, 529. 

County roads, grading those widened by County Commis- 
sioners ........ 295. 

County taxes, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432, 466, 510, 529 

Copying and printing tax list 

Cypress street, repairs of 293 

Cypress-street bridge, repairs of . 

Damages to Thomas Seaverns .... 397, 399 

Detection of incendiaries and burglars 

Drainage, School street .... 



Washington street 
Engine house 

Bell and sign for 
Extinction of town debt, 



268, 21 



293, 



355, 



Fencing town land 

Fire Department, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432 

Engine-house .... 

Bell and sign for 

Expenses of fire-engine 

Repairs of fire-engine 

Flag-staff for Engine Co. 

Hose for engine .... 

Hook-and-ladder carriage . 

Gas in Town Hall 

Grade crossings 

Grading and fencing school-house lot . 

Grading and making Beacon street 

Grading and widening streets . . 295, 

Grading hill in South street . 

Gravel, removal of 

Grove street highway district 

Grove street 

Guide posts and boards 

Hay scales 

Hearse, repairs of .... 

Heath street 

Highways, 8, 20, 38, 57, 85, 119, 196, 230, 231, 
295, 323, 355, 397, 432 
High School — (see Schools and School-houses). 
Holden street 



301 



397, 432, 467. 

529 

529 

466, 510, 529 



312, 



164, 



285 



10, 



529, 
333, 



64 



268 



230, 234 
238, 268, 269, 
466, 510, 529 



355 
565 
281 
451 
510 
397 
504 
564 

312 
564 
467 
296 
125 
405 
299 
466 
451 
124 
186 

510. 
564 
564 
564 
124 
186 
230 
293 
510 
510 
510 
467 
397 
499 
355 
564 
334 
440 
295 
230 
467 
510 
364 
510 

293, 
564 



:, •-,. 397 



INDEX TO SUI5.TECTS. 



Ill 



Appropriations by subjects — continued. 

Hook-and-ladder carriage .... 

Hook-and-ladder and bose bouse . 

Incendiaries, reward for detection of . 

Insurance on town buildings 

Interest on town debt. 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 39^ 



432, 
510 
510 
106 



532 
529 
230 



230 



510 



510 



Land damages .... 324. 355, 466 

Land, purchase of 89 

Lantern for Town Hall ...... 

Library, fitting up room in Town Hall 

Foundation for library building 
Lighting town buildings and streets 451, 510, 529 
Liquor Law, prosecution of . 462, 467, 510 ; 

Lock-up, building of 

Longwood avenue 

Macadamizing and draining Washington street 

Map for Assessors 

Music in schools ...... 

New road, L847 

Newton street, repairs of ... 

Widening of 

Parishes in Brookline 

Paving gutters ...... 

Pierce street ....... 

Plan of town 

Police 

Poor, support of, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432, 466 
Printing address of Dr. Pierce 

Printing by-laws 

Prosecution of liquor laws . . 462. 467. 510, 529, 

Prospect street 

Public Library — (see Library). 

Relaying drains 

Religious societies 

Repairs of building and fuel, 230. 268, 293, 323, 355, 

Reservoir near Town Hall . . . . 510. 

Rewards for detection of incendiarism and burglary, 

Ringing bell 187. 

Safe for Town Hall 273, 

Salary for Town Clerk 

Town Treasurer 

School street 

School Committee, Chairman and Secretary of . 
School-houses and school-rooms : 

Harvard street 

Heath street 

High school 

Furnishing of furnace for 



510 

397, 

510 
529 
299 
510 

484 



355 



467 



510 

510 

299 

510 
467. 474, 
529, 564 
529, 564 
472, 510 

252 
562, 564 

564 
535, 564 
535, 564 
238, 355 

581 
228, 230 

467 
268, 467 

230 
230, 238 

234 
. 8, 10 
529. 564 
355, 397 

432 
564, 586 
529. 564 

177 

228 
535, 564 
355. 397 

529. 5(14 

184 

432, 466, 

529. 564 

535, 5(11 

379, 397 

529, 564 

509. 510 

467 

293 

397, 466 

84 

440 
439 

549, 564 
549 



IV 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Appropriations by subjects — continued. 

School-houses and school-rooms — continued. 

Newton street 

Pearl place ...... 

Pierce Grammar . 

Primary school-houses 

School street 

South school-house 

Town Hall school-rooms 
Schools : 

Support of, 230, 268, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432, 466, 510, 529 

Fo^adults .... 

Ungraded, establishment of 

Books for reference .... 84, 
School Library .... 
Seaverns, Thomas, damages to 

Sidewalks 

South street, grading hill 

State Tax 

Suit of Sheldon, expense of defending 

Survey and plans of town 

Survey of streets .... 

Tax List, copying and printing of 

Taxes, collection of, 293, 323, 355, 397, 432 

Town debt, extinction of, 268, 272, 293, 



439, 548, 
467, 468, 471, 472, 498, 



95, 196 



355, 397, 432 

397, 399 

472, 510, 529 

333 

510, 529 



Town debt, interest on, 230, 268, 293, 323, 



466, 
323, 



510, 529. 564, 
355, 393, 432, 
510, 529, 
355, 397, 432, 467, 
510, 529, 
1, 8, 19, 38, 57, 85, 119, 



Town expenses 

Town Hall .... 

Chandelier and desk for 

Fitting up room for library 

Lantern for ... 

Ventilation of . . 
Town Officers, 230, 268, 293, 323 
Treasurers of Parishes .... 

Ventilation of Town Hall and School-houses 
Wall for east end Town Hall lot . 
Washington street, macadamizing and draining 

Construction of drain in 
Wells for High School and Town Hall 

Widening streets 

Aspinwall, Wm. C. Money given to town by . . . . 
Vote of town to protect Geo. Griggs, administrator of 

estate of Thos. Aspinwall 

Aspinwall avenue — (see Streets). 

Assets of town, to be printed in Town Report, 1855 ... 



562 



355, 397, 432, 466, 510, 529 



228 



229 
119, 230, 234, 364 



233 
564 
499 
472 
253 
230 
27:', 

564 
303 
355 
466 
84 
405 
564 
334 
564 
397 
466 
510 
467 
565 

467, 
564 

474, 
564 
186 
510 
355 
564 
252 
230 
564 
10 
230 
269 
230 
451 
230 
466 
138 

398 

511 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. V 

Assessors : 

Election of, 7. 11. 57. 82, 107, 150, 180. 220, 260, 288, 315, J47, 35o. 
392, 422. 423, 459, 465, 499, 523, 53:5. 553 

Excused 56 

Pay of (1842) 59 

Selectmen to be chosen separately from .... 82 

Sworn. 7, 56, 86. 120, 157. 192, 224. 225. 261, 291, 319,320,352, 

353, 395, 396, 425. 464, 465, 199, 55;; 

Tax Abatement, to keep record of 242 

Tax List, to direct printing of 511 

Assistant Assessors : 

Committee to nominate ........ 459 

Election of ... . 459, 465, 499, 507, 523, 553, 561, 566 

Sworn 4(14. 465. 506, 507, 52:5. 553 

Auditing Committee — (see Auditors). 

Auditors (including " Committee on Town Accounts" : 

Election of, 1, 8, 19, 38. 82, 108, L53, 181, 226, 263, 290, 317, 348, 353 
Estimate of receipts and expenditures to be submitted 

annually. L849 288 

Reports of. 1. 11, 21, 39, 46, 59, (1843) 75, (1844) 113, | L845) L62, 

(1846) 190 
Accepted as amended, 1853 ..... 129 

Keport of, to be printed and distributed previous to annual 

town meetings. is47 ....... 2:'. 1 

Avenues, Roads and Streets — (see Streets). 
Avon street — (see Streets). 
Baptist Society : 

Share of proceeds of wood-lot 8, 10, 27 

Lot in cemetery deeded to 83 

Beacon street — (see Streets). 

Boston, City of, aqueduct through BrookbiK- .... 145 

Committee to confer with Commissioners concerning land 

for Boylston-street reservoir, 1848 .... 2t'.7 
Report of Committee, with proposals of Boston Commis- 
sioners, 1848 274 

Committee to make contract with Commissioners about 

reservoir and lowering Bradley's Hill . . . 275 
Report of above Committee, 1848 .... 280 
Boston and Vermont Telegraph Co.. location of poles for . . 304 
Boston and Worcester R. R. Co. : 

Selectmen to apply to County Commisioners urging gate 

across Mill Dam 20t> 

Report of 222 

Committee regarding bridging at Beacon street . 409, 501. 504 

Boylston street — (see Streets). 

Bradley's Hill, lowering of, over Boylston street . 164, 274. 275, 280 

Brighton street— (see Streets). 
Brookline avenue— (see Mill Dam). 
Brookline Engine Co. No. 1. list of members. 1845 . . . 168 



VI 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Brookline Gas Light Co. : 

Proposition for lighting streets. 185i*» 448 

Proposition for lighting streets, 1856, referred to the Select- 
men ....... 

Report of Selectmen .... 

Brooks. Committee to oppose diversion of, as petitioned for bj 

Aqueduct Corporation 

Burglary and incendiarism, reward for detection of 
By-Laws : 

Geneval, Selectmen to report set of, 1844 

Committee to draft set of. 1846 .... 

Report of Committee, 1847 
Amended and re-committed for printing 

Adopted. 1847 

Reprinted and distributed. 1855 .... 

Dogs, licensing and taxing of 290, 293, 

Fire apparatus and engine-houses .... 

Travel in streets ........ 

Truant children. 1854 ....... 

Cemetery : 

Baptist Society to have a lot ..... 

Enlargement of, Committee to examine land for. 1840 
Report of Committee rejected .... 

Report of Committee accepted .... 

Recommendations accepted. Committee appointed and 

appropriation made . 
Committee appointed to consider. 1849 
Report of, 1850 
First Parish to have a lot .... 

Front wall to have stone capping . 

Funds in hands of Committee and all future receipts to be 

turned over to Town Treasurer. 1850 
Grievances of individuals, Committee to investigate. 
Committee enlarged and instructed 

Majority and minority reports presented 
Reports laid on table by " Yea and Nay" vote 
Harvard Congregational Society to have a lot 
Lots to be measured and staked out. 1S44 

Deeds of. to be given to Dr. Pierce. Baptist Society, 
First Parish, and Harvard Congregational 
Society ....... 83, 164 

Proceeds from sales of lots to apply to expense of fencing, etc. 33 
Cemetery Committee: 

To be chosen annually. 1843 ....... 88 

Flection of. 29. 88, L53, 182, 226, •-'('.;•.. 292. 317, 320, 348, 393, 396, 

410. 42!). 461. 466, 500. 524. 555, 561 

Keports of, (1841) 34, ( L842) 51, (1843) 75. (^1844) 116, 1845) 153, 

J5S. (1846) 184, (1847) 22:1. (1848) 26:;, 1849) 288, 

(1850) 314, 1853) 420 



527 
35 1 

10 

126 

206 
228 
228 
241 
508 
296. 302 
573 
5 7:'. 
4*4 

83 

210 
27 

28 

29 
303 

-X)C, 
83 
34 

312 

69. 84. 88, 96 
88 
100 
100 
164 
119 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. Vll 

Cemetery Committee — continued. 

Committee to investigate accounts and doings of, 1843 . 88, '.M> 
Report presented and Committee discharged . 99, LOO 

Census. 1840 30 

Charles River Branch R. R.. Committee to oppose grade crossing 

of Cypress and Washington streets .... 382, 333 

Claims and Suits : 

Selectmen to settle without specific appropriations. L854 . 484 
Blanchard vs. Selectmen of 1840, claims for expense of. 62, (14. 145, 

147. 158, 160 

Committee to consider and report, 1842 . . . 62,64 

Report of Committee, 1*44 .... 145 

Report of Committee with opinion of Jno. Pickering 158 

Petition of Selectmen of 1840 145 

Petition of Joshua W. Blanchard 147 

Committee to obtain opinion of counsel . 147 
A ppropriation to settle Selectmen's claim . . . 160 
Seaverns, Thomas, land damages, Holden street. Commit- 
tee. 1851 360, 3t'>4 

Report of Committee, 1852 399 

Sheldon ami Stearns, for building Beacon street, Committee, 

1852 380, 381 

Report of Committee .... 387, 389, 404 

Award of referees acccepted. and appropriation made 

to settle 405 

Tampliu and Shaw, for horse killed, referred to Selectmen, 

1856 527 

Walker, Samuel A . regarding land where hay scales 

stood 208, 210, 214 

Committee appointed 215 

Report of Committee 226 

Williams, George F., to recover tax. referred to Select- 
men, 1857 580 

Clerk of Courts, vote for 544 

Clyde street — (see Streets). 

Collector, election of, 7. 38, 47. 82, L08, 150, 180, 220, 260, 288, 315, 

316, 347, 392, 423. 4;>'.t. 523. 533 

Excused 47 

Sworn . . 56,86,157,261,291,318,352,395,425,464 
Commissioner of Insolvency, vote for ...... 544 

Committees appointed on subjects as follows: — (see also, Reports 
of Committees). 
Almshouse .......... 87 

33, -m; 

502 

348, 353 
400 
442 
442 
44'.) 



Annexing part of Roxbury ...... 

Anniversary, celebration of third semi-centennial 
Auditing accounts . . 1, 153, 181, 22(1, 263, 290, 31' 
Beacon street, bridge over B. &. W. R. R. . 

Widening of ....... 

Blake, George B., petition of 

Boylston street, to examine . ... 



Vlll 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Committees appointed on subjects — continued. 

Bridge across Muddy River 550,561,567 

Bridge over B. & W. R. R. on Beacon street . . . 409 

Brooks, to remonstrate against diversion, petitioned for by 

Aqueduct Corporation • . . 10 

By-laws, alteration of 302 

Concerning dogs 290 

General 207 

Cemetery, Election of committee in charge of. 29, 88, 153, 182, 

226, 263, 272, 317, 320, 348, 393, 396, 410, 

429, 461, 466, 500, 524, 555, 561 

Enlargement of 303 

Grievances of citizens, to investigate . . 84, 88, 100 
To examine state of, and purchase land for en- 
larging 27, 28, 29 

Chandler, T. P., to confer with about drain .... 449 
Claims to be examined : 

Seaverns, Thomas, land damages. . . . 360, 364 

Selectmen of 1840, for damages 62 

Sheldon & Stearns 380, 381 

Walker, S. A 215 

Dogs, By-law concerning 290, 302 

Fire department : 

Location for hose carriage ..... 503 
Old engine to be sold to Roxbury, 1840 . . .14, 23 

Purchase of hose 503 

To carry out plans for extinguishing fires . . 509 
To procure new engine and report, 1840 . . 6, 9 

To recommend disposition of old engine and report, •">. 6, 

10, 13 

Flag-staff, to erect 462 

Gravel — 

To examine gravel hills ...... 559 

To make arrangements for removing . . . 284 

Heath street, repair of 231 

Highways — (see Committees on Roads and Streets). 

Highway districts, alterations in 148 

Horse sheds, erection of ....... 255 

Lamp-posts, to locate ........ 449 

Land, purchase and sale of — 

About Town Hall 229 

For Commons (request of Eliakim Littell) . 572 

For Gravel pits 559, 563 

For High School 526, 532 

For School purposes, School street . 84, 89, 96 

For Town Hall 103, 105, 123 

Taken by Boston Water Commissioners . . 267. 274 

To examine land between Town Hall and Mechanic 

place ......... 559 

To examine land of Harrison Fay .... 549 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



IX 



332, 



Committees appointed on subjects — continued. 

Littell, Eliakim, request of, regarding evening schools 

Lock-up 

Naming streets 

Poor, house for maintenance of 

Pope, Charles, line of 

Public Library : 

Establishment and maintenance of 
School fund for erection of building for 

Punch Bowl Tavern 

Remonstrate against railroad through Brookline 

Against Charles River railroad . 
Roads and Streets : 

Beacon street ..... 301, 333, 

County roads, widening of 

Grove street 

Longwood avenue 550, 

Proposed Streets : 

From Newton street, Brookline, to Centre 

street, Roxbury, Loker's petition, 1847, 245, 
From School street to Charles river, petition 

of Blake, 1853 .... 438, 

From Pefkins street through Goddard avenue 
to West Roxbury, 1857 .... 
From Heath street to Newton street, 1857 
From Roxbury, through Brookline to Cam- 



(36, 

206, 

561, 



bridgeport, 1857 
Across Swallow pond 

Repairs of, plan for 

School street 

Survey of 

South street, hill on 

Washington street 
Safe for Town Hall 
Schools — (see also, Schon/ Committee). 

Classical school, establishment of 

Improvement in .... 

Library for ..... 

Music in 

School Committee's Report, to consider 
School Houses and School Rooms : 

Building of 

Building on School street 

Finish and furnish room in Town Hali 

High school-house, purchase of laud fc 
To build .... 

Middle District, to examine state of 
To repair or remove 

New school-house, to consider subject of 



550, 



285, 



586, 
273, 484, 

. 42 



119, 



572 

349 

33 

87 

292 

558 
558 
125 
L76 
364 

342 

295 
246 
567 



246 
442 

571 

:,72 

561 
567 
303 
505 
466 
321 
587 
510 

, 43 

20 

84 

354 

354 



98, 442, 471 
535 
186 
526 
535 
8 
14 
430 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Committees appointed on subjects — continued. 

School Houses and School Rooms — continued 
Pearl street, to enlarge 
Sites for, to select 
South District, to examine state of 

To improve 
Town Hall, room in 
Ventilation of 

Wells for 

Survey of roads and streets . 

Survey of town ..... 

Tide-water, to shut out from Beacon street 
Town Hall, Building Committee . 

Location for .... 

Ventilation of ... . 

Trustees of Library, to nominate 
Water Supply, to meet Committee of Legislature 
Congregationalist Society to have lot in Cemetery 
Constitution of Massachusetts, vote on calling convention 
revise .......... 

Delegates chosen to attend convention, 1853 
Constitutional Propositions, vote on, 1853 .... 

Contribution towards Washington Monument, 1852 
Constables : 



374 

8 



186, 230 

285 

33, 110 

452 

ID.-.. 

98, 99, 

186, 23() 



to 
376. 



Election of, 8, 19, 51. 8! 



Declined 
Sworn. 



;><;, 86, 120, 15, 



108, 152, 181, 22G, 232, 263, 289. 347, 
392, 424, 428, 460, 500, 507. 524 

347, 

192. 224, 225. 291. 318. 319, 348, 395, 
506, 524 : 



549 

471 

229 

14 

186 
248 
187 
466 
451 
462 
120 
123 
247 
562 
177 
S3 

415 
418 
446 
415 

348, 
554 
353 

464, 
530 



Cottage avenue — (see Streets). 
Cottage street — (see Streets). 
Countv Commissioners, vote for. 



42, 43, 128. 133, 236. 427. 434. 489, 518, 

544 
257 
289, 318, 
501, 518 



County Seat, proposed removal from Dedham to Roxbury . 
County Treasurer, vote for. 8, 19. 50, SI, 108, 153, 182, 221, 260 

349. 393, 422, 460, 
Cypress street — (see Streets). 

Day's work on roads to be ten hours, 1852 .... 
Delegates chosen to State Convention to revise Constitution 
Delinquent tax-payers, names to be printed in report, 1855 . 
Dogs, by-law for licensing and taxing .... 290. 

Amendments to by-law 

Taxes and fines not to be refunded .... 

Unmuzzled dogs to be destroyed 

Draping Town Hall, in memory of Daniel Webster. 1853 
Elm street — (see Streets). 

Engine Company, roll of members, 1845 .... 

Engine house, Committee to select location and prepare plans, 184 

Report of Committee 

To be erected opposite land of Fay, 1844 

Bell and sign for 



293 



103. 



152 
418 
509 
296 
302 
301 
475 
432 

168 
98 
123 
124 
186 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



XI 



Estimate of receipts and expenditures to be submitted annually by 

Auditors, 1849 288 

Fence Viewers — 

Election of. 7. 19,38,51,83,87, 108, 126, 152, 164, 181, 103. 226, 263, 

289, 292. 316, 320, 348, 353, 393, 461, 466, 500, 524, 555 

Excused from serving ........ 193 

Declined 164 

Sworn, 56, 86, 120. 157, 192. 224. 261, 319, 352, 353. 395, 125, 464, 

506, 530, 560 
Financial year fixed to end February 1. 1843 .... 88 

P'ield Drivers — 

Election of, 7. 19, 38, 51, 83, 108, 153, 181, 193, 226, 232. 263, 289, 
292. 316. 317. 348, 393, 429, 460, 466, 500, 524, 555 

Declined 291,292,395,464,560 

Excused from serving 194, 232 

Excuse not granted ........ :!.">:; 

Sworn. 56, 86, 120, 157, 192, 224. 225. 261, 291, 319, 320. 352, 395, 

425, 464, 466, 506, 536, 560 

Vacancies, filling of 353 

To be fined for not serving, L851 ...... 353 

Fire Wards — 

Flection of. 7. 19, 38, 51. 82, LSI, 225. 263, 289, 316, 320, 324, 348, 

393, 429, 461, 501, 524, 531, 555, 561 
Accepted, L93, 224, 263, 291, 318, 319, 362, 395, 465, 506, 530, 531, 560 



Declined ........ 

Excused ......... 

Excuse not granted ...... 

Fire Department : 

Committee regarding fire engine, 1838 

Report of Committee, 1839 
New engine to be procured by Selectmen 
Selectmen's report on purchasing engine " Brookline 
Committee to dispose of old engine, '■ Norfolk" 

Report of Committee ..... 
Committee to arrange with town of Roxbury 

To propose to Roxbury sale and division of 
ceeds, 1840 

Reports of above Committee, 1.S40 and 1842 
Engine-house burned and apparatus damaged, 184:! 
Repairs of engine and purchase of new hose 
Committee on new hose and house for hose-carriag 
hook and ladder, 1855 

Report of Committee .... 
By-law concerning houses and apparatus 
First Parish : 

Share of proceeds of wood-lot 

Land on Walnut street, Selectmen to give quit-claim 

for, 1847 • . 

Lot in Cemetery, for 

Proposal for location of Town Hall 



pro- 



e and 



193, 530 

320, 324 

429 



6 

6 

9 

10 

13 

13 

23 

24. 58 

98 

285 



503 

507, 509 

573 

8, 10, 27 
deed 

254 

83 

123, 128 



Xll INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Flag-staff to be erected in front of engine-house .... 462 

Flats on westerly side of Mill Dam, Willard's petition to use . 145 

Gas to be used for lighting buildings and streets, 1853, 1856, 448, 527, 531 

Gift to town by William C. Aspinwall 138 

Vote protecting Geo. Griggs, administrator, against claim 

of heirs, 1852 398 

Goddard avenue— (see Streets). 

Governor, vote for, 4, 17, 32, 44, 63, 98, 139, 170, 209, 250, 282. 306, 337, 

375, 414, 445, 488. 518. 542, 583 

Gravel, removal of from land about Town Hall, 1847 . . 248. 265 
Committee on purchasing, near Fairmount, 1857 . . 559 

Gravel Pits, Committee on land for, and report . . . 559, 563 

Grove street — -(see Streets). 

Guide boards, report of Selectmen, (1840) 26, (1841) 37, (1842) 58, 
(1844) 132, (1846) 194, (1847) 222, (1850) 319, (1851) 
350, (1852) 385, (1853) 420, (1854; 454, (1855) 496, 

(1856) 522, (1857) 552 

Harvard Congregational Society, to have lot in Cemetery, 1845 . 164 

Harvard street — (see Streets). 

Hay scales, appropriation for ...... til. 510 

Removal from Washington street. 1853 .... 432 

S. A. Walker's claim for land on which located. Com- 
mittee on 20S, 210 

Report of Committee ....... 226 

To be erected corner Beacon and Harvard streets, 1855 . 503 

Health, location for trades and employments offensive or dan- 
gerous to 277 

Heath street — (see Streets). 

Highway Districts, Committee on alteration of . . . 148 

Report of Committee on 151 

Newtou-street District divided 292 

Highway Surveyors to trim trees and remove obstruction from 

streets . 504 

Highways — (see Streets). 

Holden street — (see Streets). 

Holyhood Cemetery, town consents to use of land for, 1857 

Hook-and-ladder and hose house, 1855 

Horse posts, Selectmen to have placed around Town Hall 

Horse sheds, Committee on erecting near Town Hall 

Incendiarism, reward for detection of . 

Insurance on Town Hall, 1844 ..... 
School-houses, 1855 

Jury Lists, (1843) 66, (1845) 148, (1848) 267, (1851) 

Lamp posts, Committe on locating, 1853 
Land, purchase of — 

For Cemetery, enlargement of, 1840 

For Commons, Committee to consider 

For Gravel pits, Committee, and report of 



S57 


5 SO 


03, 507. 508, 


509 




273 




255 


299, 


379 


106, 


194 




502 


350, (1854) 


461, 


(1856) 


526 




449 


. 2* 


1, 29 




572 


559, 


563 



439, 


441, 450 


441, 


450, 462 




. 14, 25 




84 




. 89, 96 


439, 


441, 450 


103, 


105. 123 




549 


"■ 


555 




556 


507, 


508, 509 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. Xlll 

Land, purchase of — continued. 

For school purposes, High School, Committee on, 1856 . 526 

Report of Committee 532 

North District, cor. Harvard, Pleasant and Beacon 

streets 

Near Pearl place 439, 

South District ..... 
School street. Committee on, (1843) . 
Reports of Committee 

Heath street 

Town Hall, 1844 

Town purposes — 

Harrison Fay's land near Pierce school-house, 
Committee on .... . 
Report of Committee 
Purchase of .... . 
Hook-and-ladder and hose house, 1855 
Near Town Hall, and grading banks, Committee . 229 
Report of Committee and purchase authorized, 234, 238 
Rear of Town Hall, for Gravel Banks, Committee on, 

1847 248 

Report of Committee 265 

Rear of Town Hall, Committee on, 1857 . . . 559 

Report of Committee 564 

Committee to ascertain cost of all lands between 

Washington, School and Prospects street . 565 
Land, sale of : 

To Charles Burred, on Prospect street, not authorized . 443 

Referred to Selectmen 462 

To Isaac Taylor, referred to Selectmen, .... 462 

School-house lot, School street 528 

Library, Committee on establishing and appropriating school 

fund, 1857 559 

Report of Committee 561 

Establishment of, and accommodations in Town Hall, 1857, 562 

Trustees elected, 1857 562 

License laws, Selectmen to prosecute violations of , 186, 230, 269. 296, 462 
Lieutenant-Governor, vote for, 5, 17, 32, 44, 63, 98, 139, 170, 209, 250, 

282, 306, 376, 414, 445, 489, 518, 543, 583 
Lighting buildings and streets with gas, 1853 and 1856 . 448, 527, 531 

Lighting of private ways, left to discretion of Selectmen . . 586 
Liquor law, enforcement of, 1846 — (see also, License Laws) . 186 

Location for trades and employments offensive or dangerous to 

public health, 1848 277. 

Lock-up, to be built under Town Hall, 1847 238 

Referred to Selectmen, 1851 349 

Report of Selectmen and appropriation for . . . 354, 355 
Long wood avenue — (see Streets). 



XIV 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Map of town : 

Committee on survey and map 

Reports of . 

300 copies to be procured 
Mechanic place — (see Streets) . 
Meetings : 



. 33, 119 
126, 155 

148 



1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
1843 
1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
Militia Lists, (1840) 



1, 4, 5, 6 

7, 13, 17 

19, 23, 27, 32 

33, 36, 37, 42, 43 

.... 45, 56, 61, 63, <;•-> 

(is, 70, 87, 93, 97, 98 

. 103, 107. 123, 127, 128, 129. 133, 134, 139 

. 144, 150, 158, 170, 171, 173. 174 

. 176, 178, ISO, 193, 206, 208, 210 

215, 218, 225, 232. 236, 238, 24(5. 250, 252, 254 

. 257, 259, 262, 271, 272, 279, 280, 282 

284, 286, 292, 299, 301, 305 

. 310, 320, 32(1, 328, 332, 335, 337. 339, 340 

343, 353, 361, 367, 375. 378 

. 380, 383, 396, 400, 402, 404, 409. 411. 414 

. 417. 419, 427, 428, 434, 43s, 444. 44S 

. 453, 465, 470, 474, 479, 188 

495, 506, 512, 517 

521, 531, 540, 546 

. 551,561,565,569,571,578,583,586 
30, (1842) 60, (1843)90, (1844) 135. (1845) 165, (1846) 
197, (1847)239, (1848) 27:>, 297, 329, 357, 406, 435, 475, 513. 536, :>74 
Mill Dam, Selectmen to confer with County Commissioners about 



gate at railroad crossing 
Moderators : 

Augustus Aspinwall 
Wm. P. Atkinson . 
James Bartlett 
William I. Bowditch 
T. P. Chandler 
David Coolidge 
John Dane 

Jerathmeel Davenport . 
William Dearborn . 
A. W. Goddard 
George Griggs 
Thomas Grisjgs. 



301, 310 



5, 6, 7, 13. is 



George F. Homer, 286, 332, 335, 

John Howe 

Samuel Philbrick . 

James Robinson . . . . 



252, 259, 262, 
320, 343. 453. 4!>.">. 



20(1, 222 

299 
448, 453 
271, 272, 280 
551, .571, 578 
586 

341 

361 

37S 

479 

44, 4.5. 56, 64, <><;. 70, 87, 103 

474 

19. 23, 27, 28, 33, 36, 38, 42, 68, 

2S4, 327, 332, 335 

361, 378, 383, 396, 409, 419, 453, 

470, 521 

419, 438, 453 

5, 43 

. 93, 341, 367, 380. 404 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



XV 



Moderators — continued. 
John Robinson 
Daniel Sanderson, 

Marshal Stearns, 



1 

98, 107, 123, 128, 144, 150, 158. 171, 180, L93, 

254, 257 
176, 17s. 206, 210, 215, 218, 225, 2:52, 238, 24<>, 

327, 45:;. 546 
453 



Ginery Twichell ........ 

Money borrowed : 

Anticipation of taxes. 1, 39, 186, 231, 235, 269, 327, 356, 398, 433, 

471, 499, 529, 535, 565, 581 

Beacon street 333,341,370 

Bradley's Hill, lowering grade of Boylston street . . 281 

160 
99 
185 
405, 485 
106, 238, 472. 564 
451 
586 
379 
472 
549 
549 
255 
549 
nc, 
483 
L06 
45 1 
138 



398 



Claim of Selectmen of 1840. . 

Fire engine, repairs of . 

Grading streets .... 

Land damages .... 

Land, purchase of . 

Lighting streets and Town Hall . 

Police, expense of . 

Reward for detection of incendiaries 

School-houses, building of 

Furniture for .... 
High school-house, completion of 

Furnace for 
Pearl-place house, enlargement of 

Seaverns, Thomas, for land damages . 

Suppression of drinking and billiard saloon 

Town Hall 

Washington street, draining of 
Money presented to town by Win. C. Aspinwall 
Music in schools — (see Schools). 
Newton street — (see Streets). 
Overseers of the Poor, election of, 219, 315, 

Sworn ....... 

Paupers, list of, (1839) 7, (1840) 18. (1843) 



30, 



440, 



467, 40s. 471 



39 



129, 449, 460, 523. 553 
224, 291. 318, 464 ; 52:; 
1, (1S44) 109, (1845) 163, 
(184(1) 189 
Perambulation of Town Boundry Lines : 

Boston and Brookline . . (1846)210,(1852)381,(1856)538 
Brighton and Brookline. (1839) 1G, (1844) 141, (1849) 307, (1854) 492 
Newton and Brookline. (1S39) 16, (1844) 142, (1849) 308, (1854) 491 
Roxbury and Brookline, (1839) 15, (1844) 142. (1851) 356, (1854) 490 

West Roxbury and Brookline (1854) 493 

Pierce street — (see Streets). 

Pleasant street — (see Streets). 

Police, appropriation for day and night service, 1857 . . . 580 

Poor, Selectmen to mature plan to provide for . . . .69,83 

Report of Selectmen 87, 132 

Poor Farm, purchase of. recommended .... 162 
Pope Charles, about line of ....... . 292 



XV] 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Population, 1840 
Pound Keeper — 
Election of. 



7, 19, 38, 51, 83, 108, 152, 164, 181, 194, 273, 290, 
317, 348, 393, 396, 429, 461, 466, 500, 

193, 

291, 



32, 140, 141, 279, 280, 413, 412, 541, 542 



446 
442 
561 

571 

572 
567 

550, 558 
561 



Excused .... 

Declined 
Pound street — (see Streets) . 
Presidential electors, vote for, 
Proposed streets : 

Erom Newton street, Brookline, to Centre street, Roxbury, 

petition of Loker, 1847 245, 

From School street to Charles River, petition of Blake, 1853, 438, 

From Roxbury through Brookline to Cambridgeport, 1857, 550, 

From Perkins street through Goddard avenue to West 
Roxbury, 1857 .... 

From Heath street to Newton street, 1857 

Across Swallow Pond, 1857 . 

Longwood avenue, order of notice from County Commis 

sloners 

Committee on ... . 
Prospect street — (see Streets). 
Public Library — (see Library). 
Punch Bowl Tavern, resolution regarding, 1844 

Committee of citizens to visit, 1844 
Qualification of Town Officers 

1842 

1843 

1X44 

1845 

1846 

1*47 

1X4X 

1849 

1850 

1851 

1852 

1853 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1857 
Railroads : 

Boston and Worcester R 



30 

292, 
507 
273 
292 



120. 



318, 



465, 
505, 



R. . . . 206, 222, 409, 501, 

Boston to Worcester, petition of Otis Pettee . 214, 215, 

Brookline Branch, approaches to depot to be laid out as 

townways ., . 

Charles River Branch, Committee to oppose grade crossings 

at Cypress and Washington streets, 1850 . . 332, 
"Yea and Nay" vote instructing above committee, 1851, 

361, 362, 



125 
125 

56 
86 
122 
156 
192 
223 
261 
291 
319 
352 
395 
425 
466 
506 
530 
560 

504 
284 

483 

333 

363 



ENDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



XV11 



Railroads — continued. 

Grade crossings, Committee to oppose . . . 364, 384 

Grand Junction and Depot Co 248 

West Roxbury to Brookline, petition of Geo. R. Russell, 

Committee to oppose, 1846, . 176, 178, 206, 257 
Receipts and expenditures, Auditors to submit estimates an- 
nually, 1849 288 

Register of Deeds, vote for 182, 349 

Register of Insolvency, vote for 544 

Register of Probate, vote for . 544 

Reports of town officers and committees to be received and dis- 
posed of before electing such officers, 1847 .... 219 
Reports of Committees on following subjects : 

Annexation of part of Roxbury 36 

Anniversary, third semi-centennial ..... 508 
Auditing Committee (Auditors), 1, 11, 21, 39, 46, 59, 75, 113, 162, 190 
Boston and Worcester R. R., grade crossing at Beacon street 501 

Boylston street, condition of 458 

Bradley's Hill, lowering of 280 

By-Laws 228 

Celebration, third semi-centennial anniversary . . . 508 
Cemetery Committee . 51, 75. 116, 184, 223, 263, 288, 311, 420 
Cemetery, enlargement of, (see also, Cemetery Committee), 28, 34 
Claims : Selectmen of 1840 145, 158 

Sheldon and Stearns 387, 404 

Seaverns, Thomas 399 

Walker, Samuel A 226 

Fire apparatus 507 

Fire engine ("Norfolk") 13.24,58 

Procuring new 5, 9 

Grade crossings, to oppose 384 

Gravel banks 265, 563 

Highway districts 151 

Land, purchase of, 89, 95, 90, L'o4, 238, 265, 532, 555, 563, 564 

Land for reservoir for Boston 274, 280 

Map of town 126, 155 

Music in public schools 130 

Poor, maintenance of 87, 132, 162 

Railroads through Brookline, to oppose .... 206 

Boston & Worcester railroad, grade crossing . . 501 
Reservoir for Boston, land for, and lowering Bradley's 

hill 274, 280 

Roads and Streets : 

Aspinwall avenue 

Beacon street .... 

Beacon street, stopping out tide waters 

Beacon street, widening of, across marsh, 1854 



Boylston street, condition of 



556 
333, 341, 367, 389, 421 
485 
456 
458 



XV111 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Reports of Committees on following subjects — continued. 
Roads and streets — continued. 

Grove street, opposing laying out road petitioned for 

by J. H. Billings 

Heath street, widening of . 

Longwood avenue ..... 566, 

Naming streets 

Proposed street from Roxbury to Cambridgeport 

through Brookliue, 1857 .... 
Repairing roads in south part of town 
School street, continuation of 

Widening of 

South street, grading of .... . 

Widening streets 

Schools : 

District schools, improvement in 
High School 
Improvement of . 



206, 216 
233 

.567, 578 
37 

566 
3, 4 
556 
431 
333 
312 



294 



26 

43, 59 

23, 26 

130 

14, 47, 77, 89, 93, 99, 113, 199 
. !>, 25. 41, 59, 81, 132, 165 



370, 



Music in 
School Committee . 
School Fund, Trustees of 
School-houses : 

Building Committee, Pierce Grammar 

Enlarging school-house lot, Heath street 

Examination of 

High school-house .... 

Middle District 

New school-houses, 1851 

South District 

Wells for 

Sears, David, proposition of. regarding Beacon street 

Seaverns, Thomas, claim of 

Selectmen of 1840, claim of, for damages . 
Sheaf e, Mark W., request to widen Heath street 

Sheldon & Stearns, claim of 

Survey of town ....... 

Town accounts (including Treasurer's and School Fund), 

1, 11, 21, 39, 46, 59, 75, 113, 162, 190 

Town Hall 103, 123, L28, 129. 153, 171 

Ventilation of public buildings 247, 264 

Wood lot 26, 182 

Representative to Congress, vote for . . 5, 33, 61, 63, 66, 140, 209, 

282, 338, 414, 489, 544 

Representative to General Court, election of, 5, 18, 3:!, 63, 98, 140, 171, 209 

250, 283, 306, 338, 376, 415. 446. 4S9, 519, 445, 584 

Election of, postponed 44 

Voted not to send 210 

Reward for detection of burglary and incendiarism . 299,378 



498 

450 

14 

532, 547 

23 

391, 450 

25 

195 

456 

399 

145, 158 

233 

387, 404 

225, 457, 497 



INDKX TO SUBJECTS. XIX 

Ringing bell, Selectmen to arrange for (1846) 187 

Safe for town officers .... (1848)273,(1854-5)484,509 
Saloon in the village. Selectmen to suppress and employ counsel. 

(1854) 483 

Scales, public, appropriation for 64, 510 

Walker's claim for land on which located . . 208, 210, 226 

Removal from Washington street, 1853 .... 432 
To be erected corner Beacon and Harvard streets, 1855 . 503 
School Committee : 

Election of. 7, 23, 38, 50, 51, 82, 108, 161, 164. LSI, 220, 234, 260, 262. 

290, 293, 315, 317, 347, 34s. 392, 393, 396, 397, 423. 428, 

429, 442. 460. 461, 499, 523, 554. 561 

Accepted . . 31K, 324, 352, 395, 425, 464, 465, 506, 530, 560 

Decline to serve . . 23, 164. 220, 234, 260, 293. 395. 425, 560 

Evening Schools, referred to. 1857 572 

Information on certain subjects to be given in annual 

report, 1851 503 

Library for High School, 1851 355 

Library for schools, 1843 84 

Pierce, Dr. John, declines renomination, 1847 . . . 220 

To be paid for services, 1841 42 

Primary School in north part of town . . . 349, 353. 354 

Recommendation in report of 1846 to be carried out by . 186 
Report of. to be printed. (1840) 20, (1844) 151, (1846) 195, (1847) 

219, (1848) 287, (1850) 314, (1851 | 345 
Report to be printed annually hereafter, with Auditors' 

report, 1851 354 

Report of, in full, (1839) 14. (1841) 47, (1842) 47, (1843) 77, 89, 93. 

(1844) 113, (1846) 19'.' 
Reports of accepted, . . 20, 38, 151, 180, 219, 260, 287, 314. 

345. 353, 391. 420, 455, 497 
Salary of chairman and secretary, 1843 .... 84 

School books, to have management of. 1840. ... 20 

School districts, to name, 1840 20 

School-houses, recommendation in annual report referred 

to Committee, 1851 354 

Report of Committee 370 

To select sites 373, 391 

Pearl place, to select site ..... 462 
School system, alteration of, School Committee to mature 

plan, 1843 83 

Shailer, Rev. Win., to be paid for services, 1841 . . 42 

Superintendent of Schools, referred to, 1855, . . . 503 
Teachers to be employed or provided . . . .26, 39, 43 
Town Hall to be altered for school-room . . 95,186,273 

Truant children, By-law referred to, 1854 .... 484 
Ungraded school, appropriation for establishing. 1851 . 355 
School Fund : 

Committee to consider appropriation of, for Public Library. 

1857 159 



XX INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

School Fund — continued. 

Trustees of, chosen . . . . . . . 191 

Discharged 185 

To report annually ........ 39 

Reports of 9, 25, 41, 59, 81, 131, 165, 185 

Used in erection of Town Hall .... 105,131,185 

School street — (see Streets). 

Schools — (see also, School Committee and School-houses) . 
Classical School — (see High School). 

Evening school, appropriation for, 1849 .... 302 
For adults, establishing of referred to School Com- 
mittee, 1857 572 

High school, Committee to investigate establishing a Class- 
ical school, 1841 42. 43, 44 

Indefinitely postponed, 1842 .... 59 

Recommendation of School Committee adopted to 
establish a " school in the centre of the town," 

1843 89 

Report of School Committee regarding growth . 93 

Town Hall to be altered for use of . . .93, 99 

Assistant teacher, and music in .... 268 

Improvement of, Committee to consider, 1840 ... 20 

Report of Committee, with recommendations . 23, 26 

Library for schools to be procured, 1843 .... 84 

Music in 119,130,230,354,399,467 

Primary in north part of town, 1851 . . . 349, 353, 354 

Singing school, Committee on, 1840 19, 20 

Superintendent of, referred to School Committee, 1855 . 503 
System of, School Committee to mature plan for altering, 

1843 83 

Ungraded, appropriation for, 1851 355 

School-houses and school-rooms : 

School Committee's recommendations, 1851, Committee on, 354 

Report of Committee favoring two new school-houses 370 

Committee to select sites, procure plans and estimates, 373, 374, 391 

Building Committee to erect on town's land, School street 398 

Report of Committee, 1853 430 

Building Committee discharged, and new Committee to 
consider whole matter of new school-houses and 
report in print, 1S53 ...... 430 

Report of Committee 439 

Centre school-house, town meeting held in . . . . 107 
Harvard street school-house (same as North District, near 

Pleasant street) 440, 441, 450, 472 

Heath-street school-house, sale of 373, 472, 486 

High school-house : 

"Centre" school-house, mentioned .... 107 

Furnace for, 1847 255 

Room in Town Hall 273 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. XXI 

School-houses and school-rooms — continued. 
High school-house — continued. 

Selectmen to supply with water 467 

Committee on purchasing land for, 1855 . . 526, 534 
School-street lot selected and building commit- 
tee appointed 535 

Report of building committee, 1856 . . 547.54S 

Middle District, Committee to examine house, repair or 

build new one, 1839 8,14,23 

School-house lot to be enlarged or exchanged, 1853, 439. 441. 

45D. 472 
Newton-street school-house, Selectmen to examine . 22!'. 232 

North District, school-house to be erected near Pleasant 

street 440. 441 

Land purchased between Harvard, Pleasant and Bea- 
con streets, 1853 450, 472 

Pearl place, land for .... 439,450,462,472 

Pearl-place house to be enlarged. L856 . . 548. 54l> 

School-street house to be repaired .... 253 

"Putterham" school-house to be enlarged, 1839. . 14,25 

Pierce Grammar school-house, 370. 373, 374, 391,398,430,439, 

440, 467, 468, 471, 498, 499 

Insurance to be placed on 502 

School-street school-house to be repaired .... 253 
South District school-house, Committee to examine, and 

report of 8, 14, 23, 25 

. South-west District 14, 25 

Town Hall, rooms in for school purposes . 1*6. 196, 273 

Wells and pumps for school-houses . . 187, 195 

Village, land for school-house in 472 

Sealer of Leather : 

Election of 348,429,500,507,555,561 

Sworn 352, 506, 561 

Vote not to choose 393 

Selectmen, matters relating to : 

Blanchard vs. Selectmen, 1840 .... 145,158,160 

Books of, how to be kept 354 

Boundary lines, perambulation of, 141. 211, 3.07. 308. 357, 382. 490, 

491. 492, 493 

By-Laws, referred to 126 

To have reprinted 508 

Relating to engine-houses and fire apparatus . 573,574 

Cemetery, to give deeds of lots 29. 83, 164 

Census taken by order of 156 

Claims, to protect George Griggs, administrator . 398 

To settle where town is legally responsible 484 

County roads, to notify abutters of widening . . . 314 
Deeds of lots in cemetery to be given to religious societies. 

29, 83. 164 
Of land. Walnut street, to be given First Parish . 254 






XXII 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



442, 462 
442, 462 



186, 230, 269, 296 
528, 532, 581 
e employments, 

7, 18, 
49!) 

299. 

1S7 
273 



Selectmen, matters relating to — continued. 
Dogs, to destroy unlicensed . . 

Election of, 7, 19, 38, 45, 82, 107, 150, 180, 219, 260, 262, 292, 

347, 391, 302. 422, 459, 499, 523, 
Engine-house, to build ........ 

Grading streets, widened by County Commissioners . 
Guide boards, to erect ........ 

Report on, 2G, 58, 194, 219, 310, 319, 344, 351, 385, 420, 

455, 496, 497. 522, 552, 

Hay scales . 64, 432. 

Insurance to be placed on school-houses .... 

Land on Walnut street, deed to be given First Parish 

Land, purchase of . . . . . 439, 440, 441 

Land, sale of . 

Lands near Town Hall .... 

Lantern for Town Hall .... 

License laws, to prosecute violation of, 

Lighting streets 

Location assigned for dangerous and often si\ 

Meetings of 

Overseers of the Poor . 
Police, to use day or night 
Reward offered by . 

Ringing bell 

Safe for town officers 
Saloon, to suppress 
Scales, hay and public . 
School-houses, to insure 

To sell 

Sidewalks, to make when abutters furnish edgestones 
Streets, laying out of .... 266, 272, 321, 

Grading of 

Widening of county roads 

Walnut street .... 
Washington street 

Washington street, flagstone crossings 
Draining of ... . 

Filling of • 

Suit of Blanchard vs. Selectmen of 1840 

Tamplin & Shaw, referred to 
Survey of town ...... 

Sworn . 56,86,120,157,192,224,261,291.352.396,425 

Town Hall, to open for purposes of public good 

Chandelier and desk for 

Lantern for .... 
* Horse posts to be placed near 
Trees, planting of . 
Water for High school . 
Wells to be sunk . 
Wood-lot, to sell 183 



64, 432 



432. 



2(18. 



145, 158. 



127, 155, 451 



475 
315, 
553 
124 
314 
37 
454, 
553 
503 
502 
254 
534 
528 
252 
252 
462 
586 
277 
277 
553 
586 
378 
469 
484 
483 
503 
502 
486 
472 
483 
316 
314 
364 
119 
273 
301 
485 
160 
527 
525 
464 
171 
355 
252 
273 
190 
467 
195 
196 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Will 



505 

5 ">6 
55 7 
581 
581 
520, 528 
301 
317 
324 
333 
333 
335 
341 



341 
341 



Sheriff, vote for 544 

Sidewalks, Selectmen to make if abutters furnish edgestones 471 

Warren street, referred to Highway Surveyors . . . 355 
South street — (see Streets). 
Streets : 

Aspinwall avenue, Committee to consider laying out, 1855, 

Report of Committee 

Laying out recommended to County Commissioners, 
Money to be paid Col. Thomas Aspinwall . 
Selectmen to have charge of making 
Avon street, proposed laying out of . 300, 321, :'>44. 

Beacon street. Committee to oppose laying out of, 1*4'.) 
Indefinitely postponed, 1850 .... 

Postponement reconsidered, opposition continued 
Report of Committee, 1850 .... 

Treasurer to borrow money for 
Committee to ascertain cost of. 1850 . 

Report of 

Committee to petition County Commissioners to lay 
out, to have charge of building, and receive 

subscriptions, 1850 

Treasurer to borrow money .... 
Report of Committee, 1851 . 367, 370 

Win. I. Bowditch resigns from Committee . 370 
Report of Committee, 1852, 1853 389, 421 

Claims of Sheldon and Stearns . 389 

Committee regarding bridging Boston ,* Worcester 

railroad, 1852 409 

Report of, 1855 r >01, 504 

Appropriation for and reconsideration, 504, 507, 509 
Commiteee regarding widening across marsh, 1853, 438, 442 

Report of, 1854 456 

Committee regarding stopping out tide-water, 1854, 452, 462 

Report of 485 

Boylston street, named 

Bradley's Hill, lowering of, 1845 

Committee to confer with Boston Water 

missioners, 1848 
Proposition of Water CommissiontM 
Report of Committee, 1848 
Repairs of, near Henry Lee's 
Widening of . . 214,226,227,258,2 

Brighton street, named . 
Clyde street, named 
Cottage avenue, named 
Cottage street, named . 
County roads, widening of 
Naming of 
Repairs of 
Widening of 









37 






149, 


165 


ater 


Com 


- 


267 


s. 


^7-2, 


274, 


275 
280 






449, 


458 


267, 


280, 


281, 


458 
37 
37 
37 
37 




295 


312, 


314 






. 33, 37 






303, 


314 






285, 


294 






XXIV 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



309, 321, 







37 






122 






296 




403, 


479 

48(3 


344, 


520, 


528 

37 

206 




206, 


216 
211 

268 


271 


309, 


321 




417, 


430 
37 
37 




4! 14 


502 




23 1 


233 


Com- 






550, 


558 
561 



Streets — continued. 

Cypress street, named . 
Repairs of bridge 
Improvements on 
Elm street, laying out 

Named 

Goddard avenue, proposed laying out 

Named 

Grove street, Committee to oppose . . 

Report of 

Laid out by County Commissioners, 1846 

Named 

Holden street, laying out of . 
Harvard street, laying flagstones 
Named .... 

Heath street, named 
Repairing of 
Widening of, 1847 
Longwood avenue, order of notice from County Com 
missioners 
Committee on 
Report of Committee and proposition of Charles and 
Marshal Stearns, Committee to advocate be- 
fore County Commissioners, building of, 1857, 5(56, 
Location of, from Harvard street to LongAvood sta- 
tion, 1857 ........ 

Mechanic place, laying out of . 
Newton street, named . 
Repairs of 
Widening of 
Pierce street, laying out of 
Pleasant street 
Pound street .... 

Proposed streets : 

From Newton street, Brookline, to Centre street, 

Roxbury, petition of Loker, 1847 . . 245. 

From School street to Charles River, petition of 

Blake, 1853 438, 

From Roxbury, through Brookline to Cambridge- 
port, 1857 550, 

From Perkins street through Goddard avenue to West 
Roxbury, 1857 ....... 

From Heath street to Newton street, 1857 

Across Swallow Pond, 1857 

Prospect street, laying out of .... 268, 321, 

Named 

School street, named 

Widening of . . 309, 322, 324, 325, 327, 342, 355, 

431. 432, 466, 481 



309, 321, 323, 324, 325, 327, 



321. 325. 327, 345, 360, 



567 

57S 

345 

37 

238 

360 

399 

37 

37 



246 

442 

5t;i 

571 
572 
567 
480 
486 
37 
417, 
483 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. XXV 



Streets — continued. 


















37 


Grading hill 


321, 327 


331, 


333, 


334 










37 


Widening of .... 




360, 


364, 


480 


Warren street, named .... 








37 


Sidewalk in .... 








355 


Washington place, named 








37 


Washington street, named 








37 


Widened where crosses brook 






119, 


132 



Widening of . . . L06, 119, L32, 214, 226, 227, 577 

Macadamizing and draining . . 217,228,229,230 

Flagstone crossing 268, 273, 4;>0 

Draining, near School street .... 300, 301 

Filling of. opposite S. A. Walker's .... 349 
At north end railroad bridge .... 485 
Hay scales removed, and graded to bridge and depot 

grounds 432 

Draining near T. P. Chandler's .... 449, 451 
Approaches to depot to be laid out as townways . 483 
Selectmen to petition County Commissioners to re- 
locate and widen, is.".; ..... 580 
Committee to appear before County Commis- 
sioners 586 

Special County Commissioners, vote for, 41', 43, 128, 133, 153, 236, 326, 

401, 402, 427, 434, 544 

Survey of town, Committee on, 1841 33 

Survey and map of town, Committee on, 1*44 .... 119 

Report of Committee 126 

Topographical survey to show grades of sidewalks 
and streets, and reservations for parks and 
squares, referred to Selectmen . . . 432 

Referred to Committee, 1854 451 

Report of Committee • 456 

Committee to procure survey, plans and profiles of streets, 

1854 466 

Reports of, 1855, 1856 497, 525 

Surveyors of Highways : 

Election of, 8, 19, 23, 38, 42, 51, 82, 108, 152, 181, 193, 225, 262. 
289, 31G, 319, 347, 353, 393, 397, 424, 42S, 460, 465, 474, 500, 

524, 531, 554, 561 

Declined . . 23, 353, 397, 464, 530 

Excused 193 

Flagstones on Washington street, referred to . . .430 

Repairing and grading of streets 316 

Sworn, 56, 86, 120, 157, 192, 224, 261, 291, 320, 352, 353, 396, 425, 

464, 465, 530, 531, 560, 561 
Trees to be trimmed, etc. ....... 504 



XXVI 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Surveyors of Wood and Lumber : 

Election of, 7, 19, 38, 51, 82, 108, 126, 153, 182, 226, 264, 289, 

317, 318, 348, 353, 393, 425, 429, 461, 500, 507, 524, 531, 555, 

Sworn, 56, 86, 120, 157, 192, 224, 261, 291, 319, 352, 395, 464, 

531, 560, 
Taxes, assessment of, 8, 20, 38, 57, 85, 186, 295, 324, 356, 398, 433, 



October 1 fixed for date of collection, 1838 

Treasurer to receive 24% for collecting .... 

Tax List to be printed, 1853, 1854-5 449, 

Town Clerk : 

Election of, 7, 19, 38, 45, 70, 107. 150, 180. 218, 259, 287, 310, 

383, 419, 454, 496, 521 
Sworn, 7, 45, 70, 107, 150, 180, 218, 259, 287, 310, 343, 384, 

454, 496, 521 

Pro-tempore, appointed, 1851 

Elected, 1851 367 

Punch Bowl Tavern, to furnish the proprietors with copy 

of vote, 1844 

Town seal, to prepare -'41 

Tax List to be prepared for printing 

Warrants of town meetings, to be read within five minutes 
of time specified for calling meeting, 1847 
Town Hall : 

Not to be used for private school, 1839 .... 

To be prepared for use of High school . . . .9 

Committee to select location and prepare plans for new 

building, 1843 

Report of Committee ....... 

Building Committee appointed to purchase land on Wash- 
ington street, superintend building and procure in- 



292, 

561 

506, 

561 

468, 

535 

1 

20 

511 

343, 
552 

420, 
552 
365 
404 

125 
273 
449 

255 

10 
'), 99 

98 
103 



surance, 1844 

School fund used in erection of 
Advisory Building Committee 
Report of Building Committee 
Conference with First Parish regarding location 
Contract labor or day labor to be employed 
Building, two stories high, to be erected 
Report of Building Committee, 1845 . 
Dedication of, 1845 .... 

To be opened for purposes of public good 
Vote of thanks to Building Committee 
Address of Dr. John Pierce to be printed 
Ventilation of, Committee on, 1846-7 . 

Reports of 

Insurance of 

Temperance purposes, to have free use of 
Grading lands around .... 
Posts for horses to be placed 



105, 106, 
105, 131, 



123, 



123 

, 185 

119 

123 

128 

129 

134 

, 171 

168 

171 

, 182 

177 

, 220 

, 247 

, 194 

210 

229, 234, 248, 252, 265 

273 



153, 



173, 

186, 
229, 
106, 



LNDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



XXV11 



Town Hall — continued. 

Lanterns to be provided for • 

Chandelier and desk, and altering platform 
Expense of draping in honor of Daniel Webster 
To be lighted with gas inside and outside, 1853 
Lower rooms to be altered from school-rooms 



252 
355 

432 

449, 451 

510 



Town Officers, all chosen by ballot, to be voted for on one ticket, 1852, 384 



419 

241 

273, 274 

196, 222 

504 



Choosing on one ballot repealed. 1853 
Town Seal, Town Clerk to prepare 

Adopted 

Trees to be planted near Northern school-house 

To be trimmed under direction of Highway Surveyors 
Treasurer and Collector : 

Election of, 7, 19, 38, 47, 82, 108, 150, 180. 220, 260, 288. 315, 347, 

392, 423, 499, 523, 553 

Sworn . . 56, 157, 196, 224. 261, 318, 352, 395, 423, 464, 554 

Reports of— (see also, Reports of Auditing Committee), 26, 70, 108, 

161. 187, 221, 259, 287, 311, 346, 386, 421, 455 

Office of Treasurer and Collector to be united in one 

person, 1846 180 

Treasurer to be Collector of Taxes, 220. 260, 288, 347, 31.2. 499, 

523, 553 

Proceeds of wood-lot to be collected and divided 
Collecting of taxes, to receive 2£% for 
Annual report to be made, 1842 ... 
Town Hall to be insured .... 
Salary of, 1849-50 . • 

Books to show appropriations and balances, 1851 
Report to show delinquent tax-payers, 1855 

To show list of assets 
Money to be borrowed by Treasurer : 

Hay scales, 1842 

School-rooms in Town Hall, 1843 

Town Hall, building of, 1844 

Reimbursing the Selectmen of 1840, 1845 

Anticipation of taxes, 186, 231, 235, 269, 296, 327, 356, 398, 

433, 471. 499, 529, 535, 565 

Repairing School-street school-house, 1847 

Furnace in High school, 1847 

Land of Harrison Fay, purchase of, 1847 

Bradley's Hill, lowering of, 1848 

Beacon street 

Claim of Sheldon, 1852 . ' . 

Reward for detecting incendiaries, 1852 

School-houses aud land, 1853 

Survey of town, 1853 .... 

Lighting streets and Town Hall, 1853 

Draining Washington street, near Chandler's, 1853 



. 10, 26 

20, 293 

57 

194 

293, 315 

354 

509 

511 



64 

95 

106 

160 



School-houses, 1854 



253 
255 
238 
281 
(1850) 333, 341, (1851) 370 
405 
279 
440 
451 
451 
451 
467, 468, 471, 472 



xxvm 



FNTDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



si 



483 
485 
504 
534, 5:55 
549 
564 
581 
581 
484 
504, 528, 555 

530, 5G0 
528, 531, 555 

531, 560 
504 



Treasurer and Collector — continued. 

Money to be borrowed by Treasurer — continued 
Suppression of saloon in village. 1854 
Land damages and grading streets, 1854 
School-houses, 1855 .... 
High-school building, 1856 . 
School-houses, 1856 .... 
Purchase of land, 1857 
Making Longwood avenue, 1857 

Aspinwall avenue and bridge. 1857 
Truant children, by -law regarding, 1854 
Truant Justice, election of 

Accepted 

Truant Officers, election of 

Accepted 

Truants, Committee to make complaints against 
Trustees of School Fund : 

Election of 

To report annually (1841) 

Reports of 9, 25, 41, 59 

Discharged, 1846 .... 
Trustees of Library : 

Committee to nominate . 
Election of, 1857 .... 
Tythingmen, vote not to choose, 57, 80, 317, 348, 428, 460, 500, 524, 554 
Ventilation of School-houses and Town Hall : 

Committee on, 1846-47 186,230,248 

Reports of 22!), 247 

Committee to examine bills of ..... . 247 

Report of 264 

Walnut street — (see Streets). 

Warrants to summon officers chosen, 55, 85, 121. 156, 192, 223, 226, 260, 
290, 318, 351, 394, 424, 463, 469, 473, 505, 529, 560 
Warrants to be read within five minutes of time specified for 



131. 



1!) 

3!) 

165, 185 

185 

562 

562 



calling meetings .... 
Warrants for town meetings and elections : 

1842 
1843 



255 



1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
1854 



44, 64 

. 67, 69, 92, 96, 07 

102, 106, 122, 133, 138 

143, 149, 169, 173, 175 

177, 178, 205, 207 

214, 217, 235, 237, 245, 249, 251, 253 

256, 258, 270, 277 

283, 285, 298, 300, 304 

309, 325, 328, 331, 334, 336, 340 

342, 360, 366, 374, 377 

>, 3S2, 400, 401, 403, 408, 410, 414, 416 

. 419, 426, 433, 437, 443, 447 

452, 469, 473, 478, 487 



TNDEX TO SUBJECTS. XXIX 

Warrants for town meetings aud elections — continued. 

1855 494. 511, 516 

1856 520, 539, 545 

1857 550, 568, 570. 577. 582, 585 

Warren street — (see Streets). 

Washington monument, contribution towards, 1852 . . 415 

Washington street — (see Streets). 

Water supply of Boston : 

Aqueduct through Brookline 145 

Committee to meet Committee of the Legislature, 1845 . 177 

Wells and pumps for school-houses and public buildings 187, 195 

Report of Selectmen 222 

For High school, Selectmen to provide .... 229 

Wood-lot : 

Proceeds of sale of wood to be collected and divided between 

the two parishes 8, 10 

Report of Treasurer on above, 1840 27 

Committee to consult counsel regarding rights of parishes, 164 

Report of Committee 182 

To be sold and proceeds divided 183 

Reconsidered and postponed 196 

Working days on roads to be 10 hours 152 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



(Jury Lists and Militia Lists sot Included.) 



469, 464, 470, 479, 



Abbott, .... 

Abbott, E. M . 

Abbott, James C, District Elector 

Abbott, John C. : 
Committee 
Field Driver . 
Selectman 

Acker, . 

Ackers. William 

Adams, Charles F., Senator 

Adams, Daniel. District Elector 

Adams, Daniel L. . . . 

Adams, Isaac, District Elector 

Adams. John Quincy. Representative to Congress 

Adams, Thomas, Sheriff" . 

Alcott, Amos B., District Elector 

Alger, James, Constable . 

Allen, .... 

Allen & Co 

Allen, Augustus 

Committee, 430, 449, 462, 503, 504, 509, 554 
Constable . . 348, 351, 392, 395, 423 

Fire Ward, 203, 289, 291, 316, 348, 353, 393, 



Member of Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 

Representative 

Surveyor of Highways . 

Truant Officer 
Allen, Benjamin L., Secretary of State 
Allen, Charles: 

District Elector 

Governor .... 

Allen, John Perry, District Elector 
Allen, Rufus S., Field Driver . 
Allen, Samuel C, Presidential Elector 
Alley, John B., District Elector 
Ammidown, Ebenezer D., petition . 
Amory, William 
Andem, James . 
Andem, Moses . 
Andrews, Alouzo 

Appleton, Nathan, District Elector 
Appleton, William, Elector-at-Large 
Arnold, N. J., Senator 



449, 466, 468, 471, 498, 526, 



487, 491, 492, 493 
26 



68, 



140, 



20U 



561, 562, 567, 571 
424, 460, 500, 524 
395, 429, 461, 465, 
506, 524, 530, 555 



528. 



460. 



460 
531, 555 



368 
390 
542 

535 
555 
4! to 
194 

54 
306 
279 

31 
412 
270 
544 
279 
554 
548 
155 
100 
572 
560 
501, 
560 
168 
545 
464 
560 
583 



464. 



177 



140 
488 
140 
500, 506 
140 
279 
178 
390 

30 
101 

31 
140 
541 
498 



XXX11 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Ashley, William, District Elector 














279 


Aspinwall, Anna 














71 


Aspinwall, Augustus 






390 


556 


557, 


558, 


579, 581 


Cemetery Committee 


164 


, 182 


219 


226 


263, 


292 


317, 318 
















176, 303 
















299 


Motion .... 














132 
















283, 306 


Representative to Congress 














283 


Senator .... 














338 


Aspinwall, Elizabeth 














77 
















398 


Aspinwall, Thomas . 




118 


161 


398 


556, 


557 


558, 581 


Aspinwall, William . 




255 


362 


384 


386, 


428 


441, 556 


Committee . . 302, 342, 409 


, 431 


442 


456 


505, 


557 


586, 587 


Delegate 














418 


Motion .... 








381 


398, 


411 


422, 427 


Representative 












338 


339, 376 


Senator .... 














445, 489 


Town Clerk, 310,318, 319, 320 


, 325 


326, 


327, 


329, 


331, 


332, 


334, 335, 


336, 338, 339 


, 340 


342, 


343, 


349, 


350, 


351, 


352, 356, 


357, 359, 364 


, 365 


377, 


378, 


379, 


380, 


381, 


382, 383 


Aspinwall, W. A., Representative 














338 


Aspinwall, William C, pauper, 




71 


109 


138 


161, 


163 


189, 398 


Atkinson, Amos 














100 


Atkinson, Edward : 
















Auditing Committee, 42£ 


, 461 


, 465, 


500 


506 


524, 


530, 


555, 560 


Trustee of Public Library 














563 


Atkinson, George, Representative 














415 


Atkinson, William P. 












441 


468, 484 


Committee 




430 


451 


458 


466, 


468 


471, 507 


General School Committee 








423 


425, 


450 


460, 464 
















448, 453 
















338, 339 
















454 


Avery, Edward, District-Attorney 














543 
















31 
















100, 390 














147 


158, 160 


Representative 










376, 


415 


446, 489 
















490 


Fire Ward 












393 


395, 509 


Member Brookline Engine Co 


. No 


1 . 










168 


Town Clerk, 383, 394, 395, 39£ 


, 401 


, 402, 


407, 


408, 


410, 


413, 


416,418, 


419, 424, 425, 427 


, 433 


434, 


437, 


438, 


443, 


446, 


448, 451, 


453, 454, 463, 464 


, 469 


472, 


475, 


486, 


490, 


491, 


492, 493, 


495, 496, 505, 511 


, 513 


515, 


519, 


521, 


526, 


529, 


530, 535, 


538, 545, 549, 551 
Trustee of Public Library 


, 552 


559, 


560, 


565, 


567, 


569, 
581 


574, 576, 

584, 587 

562 



INDEX T( 


) N^ 


LMES 










XXX111 


Baker, Daniel C, District Elector . 














413 


Baker, Obed, County Commissioner 














128 


Baker, William . 














15, 143 


Bancroft, . . . . 














160 


Bancroft, George. Governor . 














139 


Bancroft, Jefferson. District Elector 














542 


Bank of Brighton . . . . 








311 


346 


386 


,421, 455 


Banks, Nathaniel P., Governor 














583 


Barnett, Robert . . . . 














461, 526 


Barnard, George F. ... 














54 


Barnard, William . . . . 












36 


, 350, 526 


Bartlett, George . 














101 


Bartlett, George T.. Field Driver . 














348 


Bartlett, Homer. District Elector 














140 


Bartlett, James, 100, 104, 105 


110 


, 153 


i:»4 


. 171. 


234, 


386 


397, 455 


Cemetery Committee 










. 88, 


108 


, 153, 164 


Committee, 64, 88, 125, 145. 


177. 


265, 


266, 


274, 


281, 


290, 


342, 442, 


449, 458, 466, 510, 535 


549 


, 555 


561 


. :.c,l>. 


567, 


572 


586, 587 


Delegate . . . . 














418 


Field Driver . 














. 19, 38 


Fire Ward . . . . 










L9, 38, 5 


1, 82, 108 


Moderator . . . . 






252 


, 259, 


262, 


271 


272, 280 


Overseer of Poor 








315, 


318, 


429 


464, 523 


Representative, 18, 33, 63, 98, 


140, 


171, 


17::, 


174. 


209, 
306, 


250, 

338 


252, 283, 
339, 376 


Selectman, 150, 156, 157, 168, 


169, 


174, 


178, 


179, 


180, 


192, 


194, 205, 


206, 208, 211, 215, 


218, 


219, 


223, 


232, 


233, 


236, 


237, 246, 


249, 251, 256, 258, 


260, 


261, 


262, 


270, 


272. 


278, 


284, 286, 


288, 291, 299, 300, 


304, 


305, 


307, 


308, 


310, 


315, 


320, 321, 


322, 323, 326, 327, 


328, 


332, 


335, 


337, 


339, 


340, 


343, 344, 


345, 347, 351, 352, 


354, 


357, 


361, 


365, 


366, 


375, 


377, 378, 


380, 382, 383, 385, 


397, 


422 . 


425, 


426. 


434, 


438, 


444, 448, 


450, 451, 453, 455, 


459, 


463, 


464, 


470, 


473, 


479, 


480,481, 


482, 487, 488, 490, 


491, 


492, 


493, 


495, 


496, 


497, 


499, 508, 


509, 512, 513, 516, 


517, 


521, 


522, 


523, 


531, 


539, 


540, 546, 


551, 552, 553, 568, 


569, 


571, 


577. 


578, 


580, 


582, 


583, 585 


Senator 














415, 446 


Special Commissioner . 














427. 434 


Surveyor of Highways, 152, 


157, 


181, 


189 


192, 


224. 


225, 


261, 262 


Trustee of Public Library 














563 


Barton, Ira M., Presidential Elector 


*. 












32 


Bass, John W. : 
















Committee .... 














6, 9 


Selectman and Assessor 














7 


Surveyor of Highways . 














8 


Bass, Stephen G 












450, 


461, 526 


Committee .... 














442 


Bates, Isaac C, Presidential Elector 














32 


Bates, S. D 














58 


Baylies, Francis, Governor 














209, 250 



XXXIV 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Baylies, John, District Elector 
Baylies, William, District Elector . 
Beach, Erasmus D., Governor 
Beal, Ebenezer, County Commissioner . 

Beal, William L 

Beals, George, Jr., County Commissioner 
Bean, Hiram ...... 

Bean, Hiram R., Field Driver 

Beedell, Eleazer . . . . * , 

Bell, George 

Bell, Luther F., District Elector 
Bell, Luther V., Governor 
Benchley, Henry W. : 

Lieutenant-Governor 

Senator 

Bennet, Alfred 

Bennet, Luther S 

Bentley, George W., District Elector 
Berry, N. C, Commissioner of Insolvency 
Bigelow, John P., Mayor of Boston 
Billings, Joseph H., petition . 

Billings, Nathaniel 

Bills, Shubael, Special County Commissioner 

Binney, Amos R 

Bird, 



205, 



541 

141, 280 

518, 542. 583 

427. 434 

880 

544 

71 

2:52. 348 

31 

66, 100 

542 

542 



226, 



is. 543 

584 

30 

30 

542 

544 

382 

206, 211, 210. 333 

. 16. 31, 143 

. 42. 43 

480, 548 

105, 525 

415, 446 

500, 506 

390 

386, 387 

150, 15(i, 157. 180, 192, 422 



Bird, Francis W., Senator 
Bird, George W., Field Driver 

Bird, Harrison 

Bird, Jesse 

Assessor 

Cemetery Committee, 153, 182, 184, 210, 223, 226, 2G3, 288, 292, 311, 

320, 346, 348, 352, 393, 395, 396, 410, 429, 461, 

465, 500, 506, 524, 530 

Committee, 119, 155, 176, 20(5. 274, 281, 303, 381, 388, 389, 442, 456 

Governor .......... 414 



Motion 

Selectman 

Surveyor of Highways, 
Bird, John A. . 

Cemetery Committee 

Lieutenant-Governor 

School Committee . 
Bird, William . 
Bishop, Henry W., Governor 
Bixby, Clark S. 
Blake, George B. 

Assistant Assessor 

Committee 

Motion . 

Petition . 



1.-, 



157 



332, 364 



1«1 



, 380 



189 



381 



192, 



384, 



378 

262 

261, 262, 397. 474 

100 

555, 560 

414 

392, 395, 423 

100, 461, 526 

414, 445, 488 

386 

362, 468 

459 

459, 462, 586, 587 

364, 449 

438, 442 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



XXXV 



Blake. Ward & Co 

Blanchard, Alonzo F., District Elector 

Blanchard, J 

Blanchard, Joshua W. 74, 100 

Committee 
Blanchard, Thomas C. 
Bliss, George, Elector at Large 
Bogman, George E. . 
Bond, Sarah, pauper 

Bonney, 

Boston. City of ... 

Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam Corporation 
Boston and Vermont Telegraph Co. 
Boston and Worcester R. R. Corporation, 

10'.». 456, 486, 501 
Boutwell, George S., Governor 
Bowditch, William I 

Assessor 

Auditing Committee . . 263, 287 

Committee, 176, 206, 207, 215, 227, 228, 
342, 354, 364, 370, 373 ; 

General School Committee 

Moderator . . . 301, 310, 320 

Motion 220, 254 

Petition .... 

Representative 

Representative to Congress 

Senator .... 

Town Clerk, pro tem. 

Trustee of Public Library 
Brackett, Cephas 
Brackett, Nathaniel W. . 
Bradford, L. H. 
Bradley, Benjamin 

Field Driver . 

Representative 
Bradley, Joseph, Constable 
Bradley, Mrs. Richard 
Bramhall, William: 

Committee 

Representative 
Brewer, Darius, Senator . 
Brewer, George A. . 
Brewer, James N. 
Brewer. William P. . 
Brewster, John M., Lieutenant-Governor 
BreAvster, Osmyn, Alderman of Boston, 

Brian, Samuel 

Briggs, Billings 



144 



205, 

504 



352 

2'J0 
247, 

374 
1S1 
343 

:;■! I 



1 1; 



146. 



222, 246, 
507, 509. 

362, 384 
353, 359 

317, 318 
264, 265, 
380, 381, 
219, 220 

I.-.:;, iii.v 
429, l::i 



147, 158 



71 



341, .-.'.Mi 

368, 390, 
520, 527 
306, 337 
386, 428 
392, 396 
34S. 352 

290, 332. 
431, 451 
260, 287 
551, 571 
171. 483 

:'.:<;. 4i:> 



338 
366, 367 



100, 
108, 



461, 463 
120, 224 



500, 506, 524, 530 



384 

542 

31 

, 161 

125 

3] 

112 

31 Hi 

109 

313 

311 

, 556 

304 

408, 

578 

, 375 

. 455 

. 107 

, 393 

336, 

, 565 

, 290 

578 

, 586 

478 

, 489 

489 

, 376 

374 

563 

190 

526 

525 

480 

226 

209 

554 

580 



468, +71. 572 

519 

98 

101 

490 

100 

170, 209 

539 

31 

383 



XXXVI 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Briggs, George N., Governor. 
Broadhead, Daniel D. : 



98, 135, 139, 170, 209, 250, 282, 306, 337 









545 








584 


Brookline Branch Railroad ..... 


485, 


486 


556, 578 


Brookline Gas Light Co 






527, 528 


Petition 






448, 520 


Brooks, Nathan, District Elector .... 






279 


Brown, Artemas : 








District Elector 






141 


Presidential Elector 






32 




63 


, 98 


170, 209 


Brown & Co., C W 






99 




25, 41, 59, 81, 131 


Brown, Simon, Lieutenant-Governor 






489, 518 


Brown, Willard, District Elector .... 






140 


Brown, W. H. 






36, 111 


Brownell, Nathan C, Presidential Elector 






32 


Bryant, Samuel ....... 






100 


Buffum, James N., District Elector 






279 








118 


Bullard, John, County Treasurer, 8, 19, 38, 50, 81, 


108, 


L53, 


182, 221, 




260, 


289 


318, 349 


Bullock, Rufus, District Elector .... 






413 


Burr, Nathan, County Commissioner 






584 


Burrell, Charles 






438 


Field Driver 


460, 


464, 


500, 506 


Buttrick, Stedman, Treasurer and Receiver-General 






518, 543 


Cabot, 






. 26, 37 


Cabot, S 






194 


Calef, Thomas 






101 


Calhoun, Charles, Clerk of Senate .... 






102 


Calhoun, William B., District Elector 






141 


Capen, William 






31, 100 


Capron, Effingham L. : 








Elector 






279 


Lieutenant-Governor 






414 


Carf, Henry W 24, 31, 73 


, 99, 


350, 


461, 526 


Surveyor of Highways 






224, 225 


Carr, W. 






184 


Carey, William H., Senator 






338, 376 


Carpenter, James E., Senator 






489, 519 


Carter, Gaips, District Elector .... 






280 


Casey, Martin 






30 


Cazneau, Edward, District Elector . . . . 






412 


Centre, Abigal 






54 


Chace, Reuben A., Constable 






424, 554 


Chadwic, Joseph H., Councillor 






545 


Champney, William R 






492 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



XXXV11 



Chandler. Theophilus P. 

Committee 559, 

Moderator .... 

Motion 

Trustee of Public Library 
Chapin. Henry, Lieutenant-Governor 
Chapin, N. G. .... 

Petition .... 

Chapman, Reuben A., Attorney-General 
Charles River Branch Railroad Co. 

Petition 

Chase. Nathan D., District Elector 
Cheever, James, District Elector 
Child, Henry EL, Elector 
Child, Tim. H., Field Driver . 
Childs, Henry EL, Lieutenant-Governor 

Chilson 

Choate, Hon. Rufus .... 

Church, Ephratm, member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 

Churchill, Asaph : 

County Commissioner .... 

Senator 

Churchill, Chauncy C, County Treasurer 
Churchill, Joseph McKean, County Commissioner 
Churchill, William . 
Churchill, William O. 

Field Driver . 
Clapp, A. H. . 

Committee 

Constable. 108, 120, 121, 152, 156, 157. 173, 174, 
205, 215, 223, 224, 226, 236, 254. 260, 
290, 291, 301, 347, 348, 361, 375, 384, 



County Treasurer . 

Field Driver . 

Representative 
Clark, Benj. W., Field Driver 
Clark. Captain . 
Clark, Caleb 

Cemetery Committee 

Fence Viewer 

Field Driver . 

Surveyor of Highways 
Clark, Calvin W. 
Clark, Deacon . 

Motion 
Clark, John J., Senator 
Clark, Joshua C. 

Committee 



447 
563, 572, 586 



350. 461, 
360, 

363, 384, 491, 
331, 332, 360. 



N. 63, 98, 



83, 85, 152 



156 



15 



427, 



181 



5< 1 1 . 



161, 

460. 482. 

464, 500 

. 30, 73, 100 

177. 178, 181, 
263, 270, 286, 
424, 428, 448, 

507 
81 

224 

348 

16. 142, 308 

4. 52, 117. 187 

164 

, 192, 224, 226 

. 19, 38, 108 



415 
Id. 13 



449 

587 
586 
oG5 
562 
543 
526 
364 
518 
492 
361 
140 
279 
279 
7 
139 
548 
501 
168 

434 

r»43 

518 

:. 1 8 

526 

483 

506 

111 

125 

192, 

289, 

460, 

554 

393 

226 

63 

352 

491 

190 

182 

2G3 

121 

19 

382 

355 

1 

, 446 

100 

292 



XXXVI11 INDEX TO NAME! 


3. 








Clark, Joshua C. — continued. 








Fire Ward 






7 


Motion 






174 


Clark, Samuel 








100, 255 


Cemetery Committee 








396, 561 


Committee ..... 








502 


Fence Viewer .... 








289, 316 


Field Driver . . . 153, 156, 181 


, 193 


194, 28'.), 


316 


320, 393 


Fire Ward 








320, 429 


Clark, Truman, Senator .... 








209, 250 


Clarke, Albert : 










Petition ...... 








345 


Constable 








424 


Clarke, John J 








311 


Clay, John 








31 


Clement, 








482, 483 


Clement, F. 








184 


Clement, William ..... 








31 


Field Driver . . . . 








. 51, 55 


Clement, William W 








100, 384 


Committee ..... 








462 


Fence Viewer . 








108, 121 


Field Driver 






I 


iS, 85, 86 


Fire Ward 








348, 352 


Surveyor of Highways . . . . 








424 


Clifford, John H. : 










Governor 








414 


Attorney-General 








543, 584 


Clifford Simon W. : 








Prudential School Committee 


164, 181, 225, 


262 


264, 290 


Representative .... 






209 


Surveyor of Highways 








224, 225 


Cobb, Jonathan H., Register of Probate 








544 


Coburn. Waldo, Register of Probate 








544 


Coggin, Jacob, District Elector 








413 


Cogswell, George, District Elector 








413 


Colbath, Charles G. 




217, 


229 


232, 233 


Fence Viewer 




348, 


352 


353, 393 


Field Driver 




460, 


4G4 


500, 506 


Presidential School Committee 








429, 461 


Colbeth, George W 








100 


Colby, Daniel 








10, 183 


Colby, John, Fire Ward .... 








461, 465 


Cole, Levi 








31 


Collins, David • . . . . . 








492 


Collins, E. J 








491 


Colt, Ezekiel R., District Elector . 








413 


Colt, Thomas, Elector at Large 








541 


Comins, Linus B., Representative to Congres 


3 






489, 544 



INDEX TO NAMES 


• 




XXXIX 


Conant, Ezra S., Senator . . . . 






376, 415 


Congdon, Joseph, District Elector 






280 


Conway & Kitteredge 






99 


Conway, William 






111 


Cook, B. F., Representative to Congress 






544 


Cooke. Captain . . . 






15, 37, 143 


Cooke, Ezra T 






31 


Cooke. Isaac 






100, 295 


Assessor 120 


129, 


150, 156, 


157, 180, 192 


Cemetery Committee 






88 


Committee 




29, 33 


, 42, 120. 176 


Coolidge & Bro. 






525 


Coolidge, Charles, Field Driver 






153, 156 


Coolidge, David 




. 17. 


100, 111, 143 


Assessor 






57 


Committee . . 5, 6, 20. 26, 13, 8 


i. 96 


119, L20, 


125, 130. 186 


Field Driver 






7 


Moderator 






341 


Prudential School Committee 




19, 38, 51 


. 82, 290, 293 


Selectman 4."). 55, 56, 62, 65, 68, 69 


, 82, 


85, 86, 92 


97, 103, 107, 


120, 121 


, 123 


i; 33, 138, 


144, 150, 155 








100, 390 










Highway Surveyor 






261, 262 


Overseer of Poor .... 






429 


Selectman. 392. 396, 400, 401, 402. 408, 


408, 


400, 411, 


417, 422, 425, 


426, 434, 438, 444. 448, 450, 


451, 


1 5 3 , 1 5 5 . 


459, 463. 464, 


470, 473 


. 47!) 


487, 490, 


491, 492, 49:; 


Surveyor of Lumber, etc. . 500 


. 506 


507, 524, 


531 . 555, 561 


Coolidge, William D. : ■ 








Field Driver 






524 


Surveyor of Wood and Lumber 






461, 464 


Copeland. B. P., Senator 






. 63, 98, 1 10 


/-, 






71 






Corey. Charles R 






30 








27 


Auditing Committee, 1, 8, 12, 19, 22, 3 


i, 41, 


47. .31 , It 


,83, 108, 113, 






153, 162 


181, 191, 226 


Committee ..... 






. 8, 14 


General School Committee 






7 


Surveyor of Highways . 






19 








1 18 








83, 85, 86 


Surveyor of Highways . 






51, 55, 56, 72 


Corey, Francis H. : 








Constable 






500, 524. 554 








261 


Field Driver 




348 


352, 393, 395 








581 



xl 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Corey, Henry, Field Driver 
Corey, Timothy 

Assessor 

Committee .... 

Field Driver .... 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Corey, Timothy, Jr. 

Field Driver .... 
Cornell, William M., Secretary of State 
Cotting, Nelson .... 

Cotton, 

Cousens, .... 



17, 100, HI, 294, 307 

56, 57, 73, 82, 85, 86 

10, 13, 64. 84, 99 



Cousens, Joseph E., member Brookline Engine Co 
Cousens, Oliver 322 

Committee .... 

Field Driver .... 

Fire Ward .... 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No 
Cowen, William H. . 
Craft, Caleb ... 16, 37, 42 

Prudential School Committee 
Craft, Caleb, Jr. . 

Committee 

Surveyor of Highways 8, 108, 120 



Craft, Charles .... 
Craft, Eben .... 
Craft, George .... 

Assistant Assessor 

Field Driver . 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Craft, Samuel: 

Assessor 

Committee 

General School Committee 

Representative 

Selectmen 
Crafts, Nathan 

Cratiord, Jane .... 
Crandall, Phineas, District Elector 
Crane, James and Luther 
Crane, Zenas and Luther 
Crehore, Henry 
Crehore, Lewis, pauper . 
Crocker, Charles, petition 
Crocker, George A.. District Elector 
Crowell, Seth, District Elector 
Crowley, Cornelius . 
Currier. Albert. Lieutenant-Governor 



38, 289 



142 



4;; 



211 



No. 1 
32:}. 345 



212. 213 



121, 152, 156, 



499 



82, 85, 86 



263, 28!). 291 
313, 390, 492 

107, 120, 121 
L20, 125, 502 
393, 425, 429 
291, 424, 425 

30, 100 

108, 120, 121 
543 

31 
525 
111 
168 

431, 482, 483 

509 

425. 429 

461, 465, 561 

168 

294, 313, 346 

214, 30S. 491 

L51, 164 

212 

125 

157. 189, 289, 

291, 292 

31 

16 

100 

506, 523, 553 

. 7,289,291 

110, 289, 291 



125, 164, 183, 301, 336, 502 
23 

338, 339 

288, 291, 292 

308 

277 

140 

81 

131, 165 
386 

163, 189 

175, 177 
412 
141 
264 

543, 583 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



xli 




Curtis, George .... 
Curtis, George T.. District Elector 
Curtis, Heury .... 
Curtis, Joseph .... 
Curtis, M. .... 

Cushing, A. Loring, Commissioner 
Cushing. Caleb, Governor 
Cushing, George S. 

Field Driver . 

round Keeper 

Surveyor of Highways . 

Town Clerk . 
Cushing, L. S., Clerk of House of Representatives 
Cushraan, Henry W., Lieutenant-Governor 
Cutler. Pliny, Elector at Large 
Cutting, Hiram G., Field Driver 
Dame, L. B. 

Dame, Theophilus 9 

Dana, Mrs. 
Dana, Anna, pauper . 
Dana, Charles . 
Dana, Charles B. 

Assistant Assessor 

Committee 

Representative 
Dana, Edward A. 

Committee 

Motion 

Representative to Congress 

Trustee of Public Library 
Dana, E. B. : 

Senator .... 

Representative 
Dana, George N., Field Driver 
Dana, James .... 
Dana, John H. ... 

Dana, N. C, Representative . 
Dane, John .... 

Committee 

Moderator 

Representative 
Daniels, David H., Field Driver 
Davenport, Susan 
Davenport, Jerathmeel 

Assessor 

Committee, 301, 381, 388, 405, 449, 458, 462, 



250, 



:;i; 



490 

412 

497 

101, 134, 142. :•..-)<;. 493 

21 

544 

250, 282 

. 31, 100, 482, 483 

51. 83, 85, 86, 348, 352 

19, 38, 51. 83, 85, 86 

23. 82, 85, 86, 110 

343 

67 

282, 306, 338, :!7<; 

112 

524 

168 

25. 41. :.:•. 81, 131, 165 
234 
71. 95, 109, 189 
17 
350, 526 
459 
159 
:!70 
128, 141 
430. 442, 559, 561 
430, 439, 557 
544 
563 



;;:;2 



Field Driver 
Fire Ward 



153, 156, 316 



376 

376 

524, 530 

141, 307, 390, 492 

526 

376 

100, 350 

364, 380, 381, 449 

361 

415 

460, 464, 500, 506 

54 

111, 184, 190, 510, 548 

465, 499, 523, 538, 553 

502, 503, 504, 510, 535, 

549, 555 

319. 460, 464, 500, 506 

224, 225 



xlii 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Davenport, Jerath.nieel — continued. 

Moderator .... 

Motion 

Overseer of Poor . 

Prudential School Committee 

Representative 

Selectman, 291, 292, 299, 300, 304 
328, 332, 335, 337, 340 
306, 375, 378, 380, 382 
404, 408, 409, 411, 413 
426, 427, 434, 438, 444 

Treasurer .... 

Truant Officer 
Davenport, Moses, Lieutenant-Governor 
Davis, Benjamin B. ... 

Committee .... 

Selectman and Assessor 
Davis, Hanson .... 

Davis, Isaac . .... 

Governor .... 

Davis, John, Governor 

Davis, Moses 

Davis, Robert S 

Davis, Thomas A 

Davis, Wendall T., Secretary of State 

Dean, John 

Dearborn, H. A. S., District Elector 
Dearborn, Isaac .... 

Moderator .... 
Dearborn, William . . . 30, 32S 

Cemetery Committee 

Committee .... 

Overseer of Poor . 

Selectman, 291, 292, 299, 304, 305 
335, 337, 340, 343, 344 
378, 382, 383, 392, 396 



305, 307 
343, 344 
383, 392 
414, 416 
445, 446 



L9, 



38, 45, 58 



345 



346 



307. 308 
347, 352 
400, 401 



308, 
347, 
396, 
417. 
448, 



30 
386 



310, 
357, 
402, 



Surveyor of Highways . . 316, 319, 347, 352 
Dennison, A. L. 

Dennison, James .... 
Derby, Minot ..... 
Devereaux, George, District Elector 
DeWitt, Alexander : 

District Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 
DeWitt, Francis, Secretary of State 
Dickinson, John, Jr., District Elector 
Dictor, .... 



378 

354, 370, 378 

315, 318, 429 

461, 465 

306, 376 

310, 315, 326, 327, 

352, 357,361, 365, 

400, 401, 402, 403, 

418, 420, 422, 425, 

450, 451,453, 454, 

455, 463 

392, 423 

528, 531, 555, 560 

518 

100, 144, 188 

. 20, 26, 354 

146, 147, 160, 190 

31 

16 

170, 209 

. 32, 44, 63 

31 

350, 460, 526 

. 95, 96, 112 

518 

30 

280 

100. 141, 307, 492 

479 

431. 481, 482, 483 

561 

398, 430, 449 

315, 318 

315, 326, 327, 332, 

361. 365, 366,375, 

103, 408, 409, 411, 

417, 422 

353, 393, 396, 424 

322 

31 

30 

542 



279 

583 

518, 543 

141 

368 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



xliii 



Dillon, Thomas ....... 


287 


311 


346 


386 


Dimon, Henry, Jr., District Elector .... 






541 


Ditson, 






399 


Doane, James C. : 








County Commissioner . . . 128, 133, 236 


326 


427 


434 


Senator ......... 




250 


282 


Doane, J. ........ . 








390 


Doane, T. and J 






368 


525 


Doane. Thomas ....... 








387 


Doe, Lewis B., Constable 






524 


554 


Dolbein, Caroline 








77 


Dolby, William 








31 


Dorr, Jonathan, Senator and Councillor 








17 


Downs, Stephen 








31 


Dowley, Levi A. : 










Representative to Congress .... 








414 


Lieutenant-Governor 








445 


Dowse, D. 






294 


313 


Draper, Daniel, District Elector .... 








542 


Drew, Luther 








390 


Driscoll, James 








548 


Field Driver 








466 


Dudley, Joseph W 








143 


Dunn. George 








100 


Dupee, James A., Senator ..... 








5.S4 


Dupee, William T 








31 


Dustin, George W. . 








54 


Dustin, John 






loo 


184 


Constable 500, 


.".17 


524 


540 


554 


Field Driver 








7 


Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1. . 








168 


Pound Keeper ...... 








7 


Town Clerk 








383 


Dutton. Ira A., Field Driver 






460, 


464 


Dwight, Edmond, Elector 








279 


Dwight, William ....... 






377, 


378 


Committee 




354, 


374, 


391 


Delegate ........ 








418 


Motion 








394 


School Committee ..... 




392, 


3115, 


396 


Easton, William R., District Elector 








280 


Eaton. Ebenezer, Senator ..... 








489 


Eddy, Caleb, Elector of President and Vice-President 








32 


Edwards, 








104 


Edwards, George 








118 


Edwards, John F 




L'G4, 


481, 


482 


Committee ....... 






230, 


247 


Surveyor of Wood and Lumber 


348, 


352, 


393, 


395 


Ellis, Charles M., Representative to Congress 








414 


Ellis, George, County Treasurer 




393, 


422, 


460 



xliv 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Ellis, William : 

Senator and Councilloi' .... 

County Commissioner .... 

District Elector 

Eliot. Samuel : 

Committee ...... 

School Committee ..... 

Eliot, Mrs. William H 

Ely, Alfred B., District Elector 

Emerson, Aaron 

Emerson, E. C, Assistant Assessor 

Eudicott, Charles, Commissioner in Insolvency 

Episcopal Society 

Eustice, Dr. 

Eustis, Judge 

Evans, Winfleld S. . 

Everett, Alexander H.. Representative to Congress 

Governor 
Everett, Edward, Governor 
Everett, Leonard, Special Commissioner 
Everett, Melethiah M., Senator and Counsellor 

Farmer, James 

Farrington, Bradford S., County Commissioner 
Farrington, Isaac, Field Driver 

Faulkner, Timothy 

Fay, Harrison % 100, 106, 119, 124, 234, 235, 237. 238 

Cemetery Committee 226, 263, 292, 429, 461, 



64. 84, 119, 120, 125. 130, 303 



Committee 

Motion .... 

Representative 

Senator .... 
Fearing, Albert, District Elector 
Felt, Oliver, Senator 
Ferguson, Joseph 
Fessenden, Walter, District Elector 
Field, Jonathan E. : 

District Elector 

Secretary of State 
Finotte, J. M. . 
First Parish 

Fisher, . 

Fisher, Calvin, Senator 

Fisher, Calvin, Jr., Senator 

Fisher, Ebenezer, Presidential Elector 

Fisher, George J., petition 

Fisher, John, County Commissioner 

Fisher, Lewis : 

County Commissioner . 

Senator and Councillor . 







17 






. 42, 43 






280 






354 


347, 


352, 


392, 395 

356, 493 

541 

168 




459, 


464, 465 

544 

311 

294 

313 

31 

533 

32 

. 4, 17 

128, L33 

32, It 

3 ! 

489 

460, 464 

31 


390. 


546 


549, 555 


465, 


166, 


500, 506, 




524 


530, 555 


364, 


398, 


429, 430 
363, 364 
584 
446 
279 
170 
168 
413 

413 




518 


543. 583 

5S0 

294. 534 

37 

415 

445 

32 

360, 364 

584 

42 

. 5, 17 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



xlv 



Fisher, Milton M., Senator 

Fisher, Willis, County Commissioner 

Senator 

Fitch, Jonas 

Fletcher, John, District Elector 
Fletcher, Hon. Richard . 
Fletcher, Timothy, District Elector 

Flint, Simeon 

Fogg, Isaac 

Follen, Charles, Committee 

Foiling, G., Jr. 

Foote, Homer, District Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 
Forbes, Charles E., District Elector 
Ford. Enos, Register of Deeds 

Foss, Elkanah 

Foster, George, Treasurer and Receiver-General 
Foster, Lemuel .... 

Cemetery Committee 
Foster, Stephen S., District Elector 
Fowler, James, Presidential Elector 
Francis, Tappan Eustis : 
Committee . 
School Committee . 
Freeman, James M. : 

County Commissioner . 

Senator 

French, Asa, Commissioner in Insolvency 
French, Benjamin V. : 

County Commissioner 
Senator and Councillor 
District Elector 
French, Thomas : 

Senator and Councillor 
Presidential Elector 
French, Zenas, Senator 
Frost, Edward 
Fry, Benjamin 
Fry, Nathaniel 
Fuller, Gardner 
Fuller, Grenville 
Fuller, John B. F. . 
F'ullock, George R. . 
Gallagher, James 
Gardner, Henry J., Governor 
Gardner, John, District Elector 
Gardner, John L. 
Gardner, W. H. 
Gaston, William 



38 



182, 



488 



282, 306 

128 

HO, 170, 209 

547, 548 

140 

501 

279 

31 

31 

559 

99 

413 

543 

542 

349, 518 

100 

543 

15, 36 

317, 320 

279 

32, 280, 412 

459 
423, 460, 561 

489 
519 
544 

42 

5, 63 

280 

5 
32 
376 
31 
31 
31 
31 
154, 172 
491 
168 
117, 184 
518, 542, 583 
412 
355 
313 
346 



xlvi 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Gates, Samuel, District Elector 

Gay. George W., Special County Commissioner 

Gibbs, Franklin 



Gibbs, John 

Fence Viewer 

Field Driver . 
Gilford. Isaiah, District Elector 
Giflbrd, Stephen N., Auditor . 
Gilbert, Timothy, District Elector 
Gill, Ira, Senator 

Glazier, Marshal, Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 
Glidden, Benjamin 
Goddard. Abijah W. 



280 

544 

30 



100. 266, 271, 272, 294, 322, 481 

. 152, 156, 164. 181, 193, 320 

181. 193 

412 

518 

140, 412 
170, 209. 250 
168 
31 
31. 100, 110, 362, 363 
Assessor . 56, 57, 73, 82, 85, 86. 107, 121, 126. 129. 288. 291 

Assistant Assessor 459 

Auditing Committee. 153, 181. 191. 226. 263. 290. 317, 319, 348, 353 

Committee, 4, 5, 6, 20, 26, 33. 42, 99, 120, 125, 164, 183. 229, 231, 

285, 295. 303, 314, 321, 354, :'>64. 374. 391, 430, 502, 

526, 559 
19. 38, 51, 55. 56, 83, 85, Ml. 352. 353. 429, 461, 

464, 466 

44. 45. 56, 64. 66, 70. 87, 103 

361, 362 

140, 171. 



Fence Viewer. 



Moderator 

Motion 

Representative 

Surveyor of Highways 

Trustee of School Fund 
Goddard, Benjamin 

Committee 
Goddard, Eliza 
Goddard, Joseph 
Goddard, Samuel 

Committee 

General School Committee 

Motion .... 
Goddard, Susan 
Goldsmith, George W. 

Committee 



173. 174, 415. 446, 545. 5S4 

8, 19, 316, 319, 393, 397 

19. 25, 41, 59, 165, 185 

187, 190, 221, 281 

176. 215, 227. 267. 272. 274, 280, 281 

54 

15. 37. 110. 14:1 

100. 311 

3, 42. 125. 147. 158, 160 

38, 5(> 

22s 

US 

31 

14S 

Surveyor of Highways, 82, 85, 86, 108, 110, 120, 121. 181, 189, 192, 

193, 224, 225 
Goodenow, Phineas ..... 

Field Driver 

Surveyor of Highways . 

Goodnow, John 

Goodrich. Samuel G., Senator and Councillor 

Representative to Congress . 
Goodwin, Gilman ..... 

Goodwin, J. D. 

Gordon, George Wm., Governor 
Gordon, John 



. 26, 37, 194 

19, 38 

38, 42, 51, 55, 56, 72 

187, 190, 221 



61. M 

31 

168 

542 

307 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



xlvii 



Gordon. Owen ....... 

Gore, John C 

Gouch. William ...... 

Gould, Frederick 

Gould, John A., Special and County Commissioner 
Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Co., petition 
Grant. Moses ..... 
Greaves, John YV.. District Elector 
Green. Charles D., Governor . 
Greene, Charles G. : 

District Elector 

Elector at Large 

Governor .... 

Representative to Congress 
Greenwood. Bela .... 
Grennell. George, Lieutenant-Governo] 
Griffin, Luther, District Elector 
Griggs, D. Augustus, Field Driver 
Griggs. David R 

Committee 42 

Motion ..... 

Petition 

Town Clerk, pro tern. 



Gri 



» & s, George 
Committee 



Field Driver 

Moderator 

Motion 

Petition 

Representative 
Griggs, Lydia . 
Griggs, Moses . 



. 100, 254, 264, 265, 287 

64, 96, 176, 230, 240. 247, 336, 

390, 451. 456 

. 181, 193, 226 

. 100, 217. 219, :!17. :!24, 341 



401 



it; 



295 



402. 



158, 



362, 



427. 



30 
357. 493 
31 
211 
434. 544 
245 
382 
413 
282 



Griggs, Thomas 
Assessor 



21, 70, 100. 109, 142, 143, 185 
220, 224, 225, 260, 261, 288, 291, 



Cemetery Committee .... 
Committee 27, 29, 33, 42, 120, 125, 148, 

285, 292, 295, 303, 314 
Moderator 5, 6, 7, 13, 18, 19, 23, 27, 28 

Motion 

Representative to General Court . 
Selectman 45, 55, 56, 62, 65, 68, 69, 82, 

120, 121, 123, 133 
Surveyor of Highways . 82, 85, 86 

Treasurer and Collector 
Griggs, Thomas B., Field Driver . 



140 

279. 412 

282 

544 

141 

376 

413 

393. 395 

265, 266 

160, 207. 449 

186 

175. 176 
87, '.mi 

398, 428, 468 

341, 342. 367. 370. 389, 

158, 466, 498, ."-24, 525 

232, 460, 4C.4. 500. 506 

474 

380, 398. 430, 431, 451 

300, 301, 333 

171. 173. 174 

77 

17 

, 188. 190. 215. 367, 390 

315, 320, 331, 347, 352, 

353 

88 

164, 177, 182, 183, 186, 

, 321, 327. 333. 342. 502 

, 33. 36, 38, 42, 68, 284, 

327, 332, 335 

176, 182 
•5, 18, 33, 306 

85, 86, 92, 97, 103, 107, 

, 138, 141, 144, 150, 155 

108, 110, 120, 121, 424 

220 

348, 352, 393, 429 



xlviii 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Griggs, William J. . 
Committee 
Field Driver . 
Fire Ward 
Surveyor of Highways 



31, 100, 390 

505, 557, 559, 561, 563, 567 

153, 156, 181, 193, 316, 320, 348 

501, 506, 524, 530, 555 

460, 464, 500, 524, 530, 554 



Grinnell, George, Jr., Presidential Elector 

Grover, Ephraim 

Guild, J. Anson : 

Field Driver 

Fire Ward 

Surveyor of Wood and Lumber, 461, 464, 500 

Guild, Samuel, Senator 

Gulliver, John, Senator 

Hacket, Ezra 

Hager, Isaac 

Hall, 



Hall, Charles B. 
Hall, Edward 



Treasurer of Massachusetts 

9, 25, 41, 59, 81 

Field Driver 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 
Hall, Mrs. Sarah .... 
Hall, Thomas B. : 

Assistant Assessor 

Lieutenant-Governor 

Petition 

Hall, William 

Hallet, B. F 

Hallett, Benjamin F., District Elector 
Hammond, William, District Elector 

Hanson, .... 

Harding, Lewis, Senator 
Hardy, William : 

Committee .... 

Constable .... 
Harrington, L. .... 

Harris and Doane .... 
Harris, Dr. Luther M. . . . 
Hastings, Charles .... 
Hastings, William S., Representative to 
Hathaway, John .... 

Haulahan, Chas. F 

Haulahan, John, Pound-keeper 



Congress 



125 
263 
74 
404 
211, 213, 214 
9, 25, 41, 59, 81 
5, 33, 62, 63, 65 
211 
54 
152, 156, 164, 291, 292 
Haven, Rev. Joseph, Jr., General School Committee, 220, 260, 288, 314, 

315, 319 
Hawes, Joseph, County and Special Commissioner . 42, 128, 133, 236 

Hayden, Joel, Presidential Elector 140, 413 

Hayden, John 100 

Surveyor of Highways 8 

Hayden, William, District Elector 412 



506 



524, 



100, 



32 

308 

348, 352 

393, 395 

531, 555, 561 

170, 209 

140, 170, 209 

30 

142, 308 

37, 295 

386 

131, 165, 431 

51, 55, 56 

168 

482, 483 

499, 523, 553 

414 

452, 485 

100 

147 
412 
542 
525 
282, 306 



INDEX TO NAMES. xlix 

Hayden, William A 31 

Haynes, Charles L., Fence Viewer 157 

Haynes, Clark 24, 31 

Haynes, Clark L 100 

Fence Viewer, 164, 192, 193, 224, 226, 261, 263, 289, 316, 319, 348, 

353, 393, 395, 425, 429, 500, 506, 524, 530, 555, 560 

Field Driver . . 83, 85, 86, 10S, 121, 153, 157, 224, 226, 425 

Prudential School Committee .... 393, 425, 429 

Surveyor of Wood and Lumber 429 

Haynes, Horace 17 

Hayward, Rev. T. B., School Committee, 460, 499, 506, 523, 530, 554, 560 
Head, Charles D. : 

Auditing Committee, 317, 318, 348, 352, 393, 395, 429, 461, 465, 500, 

506, 524, 530, 555, 260 

Field Driver 393 

Motion 354, 355 

Senator 376, 489 

Head, Edward F., School Committee 460 

Head, Francis C 357, 493 

Head, George 211 

Healy, Mark, District Elector 413 

Heath, C. and F. A 24, 58 

Heath, Charles 25^ 31, 100, 377 

Auditing Committee 352, 353 

Committee . . . . 267,274,281,364,374,398,502 

Motion 378 

Representative 306 

Heath, Ebenezer 37 

Auditing Committee . 1, 3, 8, 12, 19, 22, 38, 41, 47, 51, 75, 83 

Committee 27, 29 

Heath, John 148 

Hebard, Benjamin 31 

Hedge, F. H. : 

School Committee 554, 560 

Trustee of Public Library 562 

Hendee, Charles J., Senator 519, 543 

Henks, John B. 497 

Herring, 30 

Hersey, 71, 482, 483 

Hersey, Elijah : 

Town Clerk 383, 419 

Treasurer 392 

Hersey, Elijah C 526 

Hersey, George, Field Driver 393, 395 

Hersom, John 30 

Hickling, Charles 490 

Hide, A 16 

Higginson, Waldo 387 

Hill, Jeremiah, Senator 376 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Hill, R., Councillor . . . . 

Hill, Samuel 

Prudential School Committee 
Hills, . . . " . 



211. 



Hills, Samuel 

Committee ....... 

Field Driver 19, 38 

Prudential School Committee, 7, 19, 108, 324 

Surveyor of Highways. 51, 55, 56, 72, 261, 2G2, 

Hills, Samuel D 

Hoar, E. Rockwood, Attorney-General 
Hoar, Samuel. Elector 
Hobart. Aaron, Senator . 
Hobart, Henry 

County Commissioner 

Senator . 

Special Commissioner 
Hobbs, James . 
Hodgden, Paul C. 
Holbrook. Abner, Senator 
Holbrook, II. N. 
Holden, James . 
Homer, George F. . 

Assistant Assessor 

Committee, 301, 302, 354, 373, 374. 380, 381, 

405, 409, 468, 471 

Field Driver 

General School Committee . . 220, 260, 2S8 

Moderator, 286, 332, 335, 343, 361, 378, 383, 



428. 441, 44* 



Motion 

Petition . . . . . 

Town Clerk, pro tern. 
Homer, Gilbert . 

Hood, George, Lieutenant-Governor 
Hooper, Foster, District Elector 

Hooper, Nathan P 

Hopkins, George . 

Horn, , Representative . 



311, 396 
396, 409. 
470 
. 354, 414, 441. 442, 448 



584 

212. 213, 214 

317 

245 

. 25, 37. 313 

20, 26, 43, 84 

261, 263, 289. 291 

348, 352, 393, 395 

289, 291, 347. 352, 

353 

526 

518 

279 

282 



326 

140, 376 

401 

350 

31 

543 

382 

104. 123 

, 527, 528 

459, 464 

391. 404, 

. 535, 559 

224, 226 

. 423. 428 

419, 453, 

. 521, 531 

. 474. 573 

309 

. 405, 408 

30 

209 

280 

. 77 

30 



468 



38 7. 388, 
501, 526 



365, 404 



Home, Thomas 

Horton, Rev. William, General School Committee 
Hosmer, Zelotes, District Elector . 
Houghton, Richard, Presidential Elector 
Howard, 



Howard, B. Chandler, Committee .... 
Howe, Abraham F., Special and County Commissioner, 



140 
168 
315, 318, 347, 252 
542 
32 
355 
354 
326, 427. 
434, 544 



236, 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Howe, Applet on : 

Senator and Councillor 
Representative to Congress 

Howe. Charles 

Howe, CO 



Howe, James M. : 

Committee .... 

Motion 

Representative to Congress . 

Trustee of Public Library 
Howe. John 

Committee .... 

Delegate .... 

Moderator .... 

Motion 

Representative 

Surveyor of Highways . 

Howe, John, Jr 

Howlan. Abraham H., District Elector 
Howland, Asa, District Elector 

Hoyt, 

Hoyt, Elijah C 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No 
Hubbard, Caleb. Presidential Elector 
Hubbard, Rudolphus B.. District Elector 
Hubbard, Hon. Samuel 
Hudson, E. D., District Elector 

Huff, J 

Hull, George, Lieutenant-Governor 

Humphrey, ■ .... 

Humphrey, James, Special Commissioner 
Humphrey, Jonas .... 
Humphrey, Lemuel, County Commissior 
Humphrey, Willard A. 

Assessor . 392, 396, 422. 42 

Committee .... 

Constable , 

Prudential School Committee 

Representative 

Selectman .... 
Humphrey, William A. . 
Hunneman, W. and C. . 
Hunt, Joel, Senator 
Hunting, Jabez .... 

Hunting, Reuben .... 

Committee .... 

Selectman and Assessor 

Trustee of School Fund 
Huntington, C. H 



42.K 459 
559 



3m i. 



98, 



17. 32. 44, 63, 98 

140. '.'(Hi. 271 
100 
.-.33 



38 1 . 



250, 



526, 535, 562 

:','.» 7 

;»44 

562 

294, 362 

430. 502, 526 

418 

4lii, 438, I.".:'. 
364 
2:,2. 271. 283 
291, 292 
31. 313 
•HI 
280 
179 
L88, 190 
168 
32 
413 
14.") 
280 
.".2, 53, 58 
17, 32, 44. i\:) 
245 
427. 434 
31 
128 
i:.. 31. 14:;. :\r.t\. 493 

464. 4(;:». 499. 523, 553 

.-,1;]. 563, .">67. 571, 572 

226, 232 

317. 319. 393. 395, 397 

209. 376. 415. 446 

219. 422 

100 

6, 7, 73. Ill 

282 

54 

1, 131, 141, 307 

6, 9 

7 

9 

526 



41, 59 



lii 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Huntington, Elisha, Lieutenant-Governor 

Huntress, Amasa 

Huzzy, John 

Hyde, 



Hyde, A 

Hyde, Arba 

Hyde, Arby 

Hyde, George 

Hyde, James F. C 

Hyde, T 

Hyde, William J. : 

Field Driver .... 

Surveyor of Highways 
Ingraham, 0. P., District Elector . 
Ingraham, Timothy, Auditor . 

Treasurer and Receiver-General 
Jackson, Amasa, pauper . 
Jackson, Asa Cook, pauper 
Jackson, Francis: 

Governor .... 

District Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 
Jackson, Jonathan Cook, pauper 
Jackson, Judge .... 

Jackson, Mary .... 

Jackson, William: 

Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 

Representative to Congress . 

Senator and Councillor . 
James, 



414 

31 

30 

194, 245 

308, 491 

54, 142 

65 

142, 491 

491 

16, 142 

263 
181, 193 
413 
543 
583 
71, 109 
163 



209, 282 
279 
338 
189 
129 
54 



James, George . 

James, Harvey, Field Driver 

James, Horace 

Field Driver . 
Jameson, William, Committee 
Jameson, William H. : 

Assistant Assessor 

Field Driver . 

Representative 
Jane, Walter, Senator 
Jewitt, Benjamin 
Johnson, 



Johnson, Nathaniel P. 

Jones and Carpenter 

Jones, Daniel P., Special Commissioner 

Jones and Sons, Lewis 

Jones, Moses 

Cemetery Committee 



279 

139 

61, 63, 66, 271 

17 

548 

30 

348, 352 

547 

. 425, 429, 460, 464, 500, 506 
449 

459, 464, 499, 506, 507, 523, 553, 561, 566 
460, 464, 500, 506 
376 
519 
31 
202 
31 
548 
153 
264, 265 
35, 100 
88, 117 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



liii 



Jones, Moses, — continued. 

Committee 

Surveyor of ^Highways 
Jones, Moses, Jr. : 

Field Driver . 

Fire Ward 
Jones, Nathan P. : 

County Commissioner 

Special Commissioner 
Jones, Rebecca 
Jones, Stephen S. C. . . .31 

Surveyor of Wood and Lumber 

Treasurer and Collector 
Jones, Susan S. .... 

Jones, Thomas .... 

Jones, Walter, Senator 
Jordan, Charles .... 

Jordan, Daniel .... 

Josselyn. Lewis, Clerk of Senate 

Joy, Sevvell 

Kempton, .... 

Keith, James M., District Attorney 
Kendall, Daniel S. : 

School Committee . 

Town Clerk, pro tern. 
Kendall, Thomas : 

Committee 

Representative 
Kendrick, 



Keudrick, John 

Field Driver . 
Kendrick, Mrs. Sarah, pauper 
Kenny, Isaac . ' . 
Kenrick, 



Kenrick, Alfred, Jr. 

Field Driver . 
Kenrick, David P., Field Driver 
Kenrick, David T., Field Driver 
Kenrick, J. A. ... 

Keys, Edward L. : 

District Elector 

Senator . 

Special Commissioner 
Kimball, Joseph 
Kimball, Moses 
Kimball, Sylvester . 
King, Harriet, pauper 
King, Horace 
King, Lucy, pauper . 



52, 



58, 70, 99, 109, 111, 161 
51, .55, 56, 82, 85 
47. 260, 261, 



10, 125, 

289, 

460, 464, 500, 506, 
461, 



236, 326, 
42, 43, 128, 133, 



215, 



71 



33, 88, 96, 99, 
63, 98, 



109 



148, 

83, 85 

163, 188, 



461, 

425, 
425, 



282, 338, 
326, 



350, 421, 
109, 163, 



176 
291 

555 
465 

427 

153 

:.4 

188 

, 86 

287 

54 

211 

543 

31 

30 

67 

31 

159 

543 

460 

217 

125 
140 

53 
267 
, 86 
189 

31 
548 
52G 
429 
429 
524 
184 

412 
376 
402 
100 
382 
456 
189 
17 
109 



liv 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



9, 25, 41, 59, 



King, Stephen, pauper ..... 
Kingsbury, Benjamin W. .... 

Kingman, Edgar K., Register of Insolvency . 

Kingsbury, Daniel 

Kingsbury, Fisher A., County Commissioner 

Kingsbury, John 16, 17, 141, 142, 307, 

Kingsbury, Thomas, Senator 

Kingsbury, William B 

Knapp, Rev. Frederick N. . ... . . 

General School Committee, 288, 315, 318, 347, 352, 423, 



Engine Co 



No 



Knight, A. H., Field Driver 
Knowlton, J. S. C, District Elector 
Ladd, James .... 
Lakeman, P. B., member Brookline 
Lambert, Abraham H. 

Committee . . • . 

Field Driver . 
Lambert and Hersey 
Langley, Silas H. : 

Field Driver . 

Pound Keeper 
Larnard, Samuel 

Laselle, Edward, District Elector 
Latham* Charles 

Lawrence, Abbott, Presidential Elector 
Lawrence, Amos, District Elector 
Lawrence, Amos A. . 

Committee .... 

Councillor .... 
Lawrence, Edwin, District Elector 
Lawrence, Myron, District Elector 
Lawrence, William N. 
Lawrence, W. R. 
Leach, Philo, District Elector 
Lealand, Joseph W., District Elector 
Leavitt, Jacob '. 
Lee, Henry 

Petition . 
Lee, Henry, Jr. 
Lee, Joseph 
Lee, Thomas 

Lee, William Raymond, Representative to Congress 
Leeds, James : 

Committee 

Treasurer 
Leeds, Samuel . 
Leeds, T. . 
Leeds, Timothy C. 



140, 279 



502, 



73, 



526, 



111 



24, 



561, 



449, 



16, 142, 308 
15, 142, 



100, 104, 



321, 322, 323, 345 



189 

308 

544 

308, 491 

236, 326 

308, 492 

489 

357 

371, 453 

460, 464, 

499, 506 

425, 429 

413, 542 

31 

168 

267. 461 

449 

181, 192 

1S4 

530, 555 

530, 555 

390 

141 

30 

140 

412 

485, 486 

567, 572 

584 

279 

280 

368 

390 

280 

542 

30 

458, 466 

447 

390 

390, 491 

356, 493 

544 

125 
123, 234 

321 
294, 295 
431, 533 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lv 



Co. 



No. 1 



Leland, John, Presidential Elector . 

Lewis, Asa 

Lewis. Elijah 

Libby, William H., member Brookline Engine 

Lincoln, B. 

Lincoln, Frederick W., District Elector 

Lincoln, Gilbert 

Lincoln, Levi, Elector .... 
Lincoln, William L., Secretary of State 
Littell, Eliakim 

Committee 

Petition 

Representative .... 

School Committee 
Little. Joshua A., member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 

Livermore, George 

Livermore, Isaac, District Elector 
Livermore, Jonathan .... 
Loker, Alvin 

Petition 

Prudential School Committee 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Long, Jonathan D. . 
Longly, Rufus, Presidential Elector 
Lord, Nathaniel J. : 

Attorney-General .... 

Elector at Large .... 
Loud, John W., Senator .... 
Loud, Samuel I., County Commissioner 
Loud, Samuel P., County Commissioner, 42, 43, 128, 133 
Lovering, Warren, Commissioner of Insolvency 
Lowe, John J., Special Commissioner 
Luscomb, Henry, Jr., District Elector . 
Lyford, F. M., Field Driver . . . 
Lyford, Nathaniel 



Committee .... 

Field Driver .... 
Lyford, Samuel L., Constable 
Lyman, Theodore : 

Representative 

Representative to Congress 

Senator 

Lyon, Jeremiah .... 

Surveyor of Wood and Lumber, 



15, 



15, 



143, 356, 



570, 
415, 



17, 141, 307, 
14:;. 245, 356, 

2 1.-,, 



151 



236 



i :.<;, L5 



415, 445 



326, 329 



348 



66, 



36, 66, 67, 68, 101, 102, 103 

120, 126, 153, 156, 182, 192, 

224, 226, 



MacCarty, William . 
Macintosh, Royal: 

Assessor 

Committee 

Surveyor of Highways 



220, 225, 260 ; 

148, 231, 

108, 110, 120, 121, 181, 189 ; 



32 

31 

16 
168 
493 
412 

31 
279 
543 
428 
572 
572 
44<; 
423 
L68 

17 
279 
492 
493 
246 

51 
189 
350 

32 

518 
541 
519 
214 
4 1 >s 
544 
236 
542 
524 
526 
462 
352 
500 

252 

271 
98 
134 
193, 
264 
493 

261 
233 
192 



lvi INDEX TO NAMES. 

Maguire, James, Senator 170, 209 

Mahoney, D 53 

Mandell, Thomas, Presidential Elector 32 

Mann, Horace : 

Governor .......... 414 

Representative to Congress 271, 283, 338 

Mann, Seth, County and Special Commissioner . . .42, 43, 544 
Mansfield, J. K. F. : 

Committee .......... 398 

Representative 376 

School Committee 392, 395 

Market Bank 287 

Marsh, Joseph E., District Elector 542 

Marsh, Lucius B., t District Elector 542 

Marsh, Thomas J., Treasure'r and Receiver-General . . . 518 

Martin, Nathaniel 492 

Mason, Charles, District Elector 413 

Massachusetts, Commonwealth of 421, 455 

May, Lemuel, District Elector 412 

McCormack, John 452, 462 

Mcintosh, William 31 

McLellan, Arthur 0. 54 

McMahan, John 390 

Mead, Seymour L., Auditor 584 

Melcher, W. K., member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 . . . 168 

Mellen, Henry A., Eield Driver 393, 395 

Mullen, Michael ......... 66, 100 

Mendall, Algernon S 31 

Merrick, John M., Senator 543 

Merrill, George VV. 31, 100 

Merrill, Rawson 30 

Metcalf, Luther, Senator 63, 98, 140 

Miles, J. W., County Commissioner 489 

Mill Dam Company 369, 486 

Miller, Frederick, pauper 71 

Miller, Margaret, pauper 189 

Millet, 52 

Mills, John, Lieutenant-Governor 282, 306 

Mitchell, Francis N 274 

Mitchell, Joseph, Auditor 518, 543 

Mitchell, William B., member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 . . 168 

Mixter, Samuel, Presidential Elector 32 

Moore, Charles W., Lieutenant-Governor . . . 170, 209, 250 

Morrison, Alva, Senator 338 

Morrison, David 141 

Morrison, Michael, pauper 189 

Morrison, Uriah ......"... 31 

Morrill, Mrs. 259 

Morse, HI 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lvii 



Morse, Charles 
Morse, C. A. 



2, 85 



No, 



.".1 



No. 



Morse, James . 
Morse, Lyman . 
Morse, Martin . 

Representative 
Surveyor of Highways 
Morse, T. B. 
Morse and Tuttle 
Morton, Marcus, Governor 

Morton, William 

Morton, William S., Special Commissioner 

Mosely, Charles 

Moseley, C. C, member Brookline Engine Co 
Moulton, George W. .... 

Munroe, A. B. . , 

Murdock, George 

Fence Viewer .... 

Murdock, Thomas N 

Murray, John, member Brookline Engine Co. 

Nason, Jonathan, District Elector . 

Neal, Burton W., Field Driver , 

Nelson, Albert H., Attorney-General 

Nelson, Andrew H., District Elector 

Nesmith, John, District Elector 

Newcomb, H. G., District Elector . 

Newell, A. H., Assessor . 

Newell, Artemas . . . 18,24,25,26,81,111,184,311,386,420 

Collector and Treasurer, 7, 11, 19, 21, 27, 38, 47, 55, 56, 73, 75, 

82, 85, 86, 108, 111, 112, 113, 121, 122, 150, 156, 157, 

161, 162, 180, 189, 190, 196, 220, 221, 224, 259, 287, 346, 

392 

Committee 33, 119, 127, 130, 155, 207, 301 

County Treasurer 182 

Field Driver 263 

Special Commissioner 153, 236 

Surveyor of Wood, etc 7, 19, 38 

Town Clerk, 179, 180, 183, 191, 192, 197, 199, 207, 208, 210, 211, 
214, 218, 221, 223, 224, 226, 231, 233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 
240, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 
259, 260, 261, 267, 269, 270, 272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 
280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 296, 298, 299, 
307, 308, 310, 343, 357, 383 
31, 100 
77 
412 
112, 118, 124, 125 
544 
386 



30, 100 

548 

100 

100 

100 

98 

86, 110 

579 

155 

32, 44, 63, 98 

30 

326 

31 

168 

31 

382 

54, 315 

7 

54 

168 

413 

524, 530 

518 

413 

542 

141 

392, 395 



301, 303, 304, 305, 306 
Newell, Augustus T. ... 

Newhall, Lucy 

Newton, Edward A., Elector at Large 

Noyes, Robert 

Noyes, Samuel B., Special County Commissioner 
O'Dea, Thomas 



lviii INDEX TO NAMES. 

Odiorue, George, District Elector 542 

O'Donnell, William 390 

Oliver, Henry J 100 

Committee 207 

Representative 33 

Oliver, James L 100 

Field Driver 10S, 120, 121 

Orcntt, Henry, Jr 548 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 168 

Osgood, George, Lieutenant-Governor 445 

Osgood, Gayton P., Presidential Elector 140 

Ostrander and Scliappe 390 

Otis, George L. 31 

Page, Charles 31 

Page, E 184 

Page, J. H. W., District Elector 412 

Page, Moody 31, 100 

Page, Ozias M. 30 

Page, Samuel 31, 100 

Palfrey, John G. : 

District Elector 412 

Governor 375 

Lieutenant-Governor 250 

Secretary of Commonwealth 135 

Palmer, 548 

Palmer, Charles L. : 

Committee 503 

Fire Ward 501, 506, 524, 531, 555, 560 

Palmer, Thomas K. 31 

Parker, Chief Justice 159 

Parker, 441 

Parker, Montgomery D. : 

Assistant Assessor 459 

Fence Viewer 461, 464 

Parker, William 211 

Parsons, 159 

Parsons, Thomas : 

Committee, 468, 471, 526, 535, 547, 548, 549, 555, 559, 563, 571, 572 

Representative 584 

School Committee 523, 530, 554, 560 

Trustee of Public Library 562 

Patten, James 100 

Patterson, Nathaniel ......... 31 

Paul, Luther 16 

Peck, George, member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 . . . 168 

Pennel, Joshua 30 

Penniman, 17, 37 

Perkins, — .......... 37 

Perkins, C 25 



IXDEX TO NAMES. 



lix 



Perkins, Charles C. 
Perkins, Col. 
Perkins. Edward N. 
Perkins. X. M. 

School Committee 
Perkins, S. G. . 
Perkins. Thomas H. 

Committee 
Perkins. Thomas H., Jr. 

Perrie, . 

Perry, Charles D. 

Constable 
Perry- Elizabeth T. A. 
Perry, William 

Field Driver . 
Pettee, Otis, petition 
Pettes, Henry . 

Surveyor of Highways 
Pettes, Samuel 

Field Driver . 

Representative 

Pettingill, 

Pettingill, Joel 
Pettingill, Thomas S. : 

Cemetery Committee 

Field Driver . 

Surveyor of Highways 
Philbrick Samuel, 15, 52, 

Assessor 

Cemetery Committee, 320,347. 348, 352, 393, 390, 410, 429. 461, 465, 

500, 500, 524, 530 

Committee, 10, 13, 14, 24, 27, 29, 33, 35, 30, 42, 54, 58, 64, 77, S3, 
84, 88, 96, 99, 105. 124, 129, 145, 148, 155, 173, 
170, 182, 186, 187, 206, 207, 215, 227, 229, 234, 
247, 248, 285, 290. 292. 294. 295, 301, 302. 303, 
312, 314, 333, 336, 381, 388, 405, 409, 420, 421, 
430, 442, 449, 456, 458, 459, 462, 485, 486, 504, 
526, 549. 555, 559, 571, 572 

Field Driver 7,181,193.194,220,232,263 

General School Committee, 50, 80, 82, 99, 108, 151, 204, 220, 262, 

288, 315, 319, 347, 352, 423, 428, 450 

Moderator 5, 43 

Motion .... 185, 235, 303, 354, 380, 428, 442, 458, 559 

Surveyor of Highways, 8, 38, 82, 85, 86, 108, 110, 120, 121, 289, 

291, 424, 428 
Phillips, Wendell : 

Elector 279 

Governor 337, 375, 414, 445, 488 



5, 101, 187, 188, 190. 254 







556, 


493 
194 

346 
552 


523, 


530, 


554, 


560 






26, 


194 




2;; 


26, 


313 
14 

299 
52 

L00 


225, 


232, 


25 1 . 


263 

.".4 






100, 


267 






226, 


232 




214, 


283, 


2S4 

26 

8 

10 

7 

18 

548 

31 






555, 


560 


317, 


319, 


555 


500 
501 


. 363 


428. 


441 468 


4 


5. 55 


57 


120 



lx 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Phillips, Stephen C. : 

Governor .... 

Presidential Elector 
Phillips, Stephen H., Attorney-General 
Phinney, S. B., District Elector 

Phippin, Mrs 

Pickering, Asa, Senator and Councillor 
Pickering, John .... 
Pierce, Bradford K., Senator 
Pierce, Daniel 

Fire Ward .... 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Pierce, Horace .... 

Pierce, James 

Pierce, Jesse : 

Presidential Elector 

Senator .... 

Pierce, Rev. Doct. John, 26, 37, 45, 69, 70, 76, 

180, 

General School Committee, 7, 15, 19, 26, 

Pierce, Peter H., District Elector . 
Pierce, Silas 

Representative 
Pierson, Henry B., District Elector 
Pingree, David, District Elector 
Piper, John C, member Brookline Engine Co 
Plummer, Farnham, Alderman of Boston 
Plummer, Hiram, District Elector . 
Plunkett, Thomas F., District Elector 
Plunkett, William C, Lieutenant-Governor 
Pomroy, Thaddeus, Presidential Elector 
Pond, Lucas : 

County Commissioner 

Senator and Councillor 
Pope, Charles . 

Justice of Peace 

Truant Justice 
Pope, William . 
Potter, Ann, pauper 
Potter, Edward : 

Senator . 

Sheriff . 
Pray, Edmund . 
Pray, Edward . 
Pray, Edwin 
Pray, Oliver 
Pray, Samuel 
Pratt, .Tared, District Elector 



250. 



8, 19 



38, 



282, 306, 337 

32, 412 

584 

412 

36 

. 5, 250 

158, 160 

489, 519 

100 

7 

51, 55, 56, 72 

. 7, 141 

110 



32 

140. 170, 209, 282 

83, 107, 150, 168, 175, 177, 

194, 195, 218, 253, 254, 259 

38, 42, 50, 80, 82, 108, 111, 

151, 181, 204, 220 

141 

34, 103, 104, 105 

5, 18 

413 

279 

No. 1 . . . 168 

539 

140 

542 

445, 489 

32 



489, 584 

17, 32, 44 

286, 292, 350 

504 

530, 555, 560 

211 

. 7, 18 



528. 



489, 519 

544 

31 

100 

31 

30 

30 

541 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lxi 



Prentiss, Nathaniel S. 

Prescott, Aaron, County Commissioner 

Prescott, F. W. : 

Field Driver . 

School Committee . 
Prescott, T. W., Senator 
Preston, Jonas 
Pnlsifer, Charles : 

Field Driver . 

Surveyor of Highways 
Pulsifer, Nathaniel . 
Quimby, Thomas 

Field Driver . 

Surveyor of Highways 
Quimby, Thomas C. : 

Assessor 

Field Driver . 

Fence Viewer 

Surveyor of Highways, 



16, 143 
128, 236 

524 
561 
543 

211 



. 19, 38 

19, 23, 38, 51, 55, 56, 72 

. 72, 149, 164 

31 

. 83, 85, 108, 120 
. 19, 38, 51, 55, 56, 72 



422 
153, 156, 157, 226, 232 
500, 506, 524, 530, 555 
152, 156, 157, 189, 424, 425, 460, 464, 465, 
500, 524, 530 



Quincy, Edmund : 

District Elector 
Lieutenant-Governor 

Quincy, Josiah, Governor 

Quincy, Josiah, Jr. : 

Mayor of Boston . 
President of Senate 

Randall, 



280 
376, 445, 489 
. • . 542 



Raney, Ephra 

Ranlet, Daniel 

Ransom, Chandler R., Auditor 
Raymond, Lebina L. 
Redding, Amy Louisa, pauper 
Redding, William .... 

Reed, Charles 

Reed, Eben W., Surveyor of Highways 
Reed, Ebenezer, Field Driver 



211 
135 

357, 493 
31 

. ( 31 
518, 543, 584 
141 
163 
109 
100 
554 

425, 429 



Reed, John, Lieutenant-Governor, 

Rhoades, Benjamin H. 

Rice, John .... 

Richards, Eben 

Richards, Joseph, Senator 

Richards, Lysander, Senator . 



98, 139, 170, 209, 550, 282, 306, 338 
. ' . . 101, 109 

31 

163 

98, 140 

306, 338, 376 



Richardson, James, Senator and Councillor . 

Richardson, Joseph 

Richardson, Joseph L., Senator and Councillor 
Richmond, Gilbert, District Elector 
Ridded, Edward, District Elector . 
Riley, Patrick, District Elector 



5 

31 

5, 17 

141 

542 

542 



lxii 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



20, 26 



7, 19, 26, 38, 45, 58 
9, 19, 25, 41, 



Ripley, Franklin, District Elector . 
Rising, Chauncy B., District Elector 

Robbins, Edward H 

Robbins, James M., Senator and Councillor 

Roberson, Andrew, Lieutenant-Governor 

Robertson, Joseph W., Senator 

Robinson, Caroline F. 

Robinson, Deacon, Motion 

Robinson, Elbridge G., County Treasurer 

Robinson, James 

Assessor 

Committee 

Fence Viewer 

Field Driver . 

Fire Ward 

Moderator 

Motion 

Representative 

Sealer of Leather . 

Selectman and Assessor 

Trustee of School Fund 
Robinson, John .... 

Fire Ward .... 

General School Committee 

Moderator .... 
Robinson, Jonathan P., Councillor . 
Robinson, Samuel A. 

Field Driver .... 
Robinson, Thomas, District Elector 
Rockland, Lord, Senator and Councillor 
Rockwell, Julius : 

Elector at Large 

Governor 

Lieutenant-Governor 
Rogers, Henry B. 

Ross, 

Ross, Ivory, member Brookline Engine Co. N 
Ruggles, John, Senator and Councillor . 

Russell, Josiah 

Russell, 

Russell, George B., petition 
Russell, George E., Senator . . 
Russell, George R., District Elector ' . 
Russell, J. M., Constable 
Russell, Marshall, Field Driver 

Safford & Co 

Safford, Eben H., District Elector . 
Safford, Nathaniel F., County Commissioner 
Sage, Orin, District Elector 



16, 1 



303 



27 



:;si 



93 



.v.» 



o. 1 



175 



176 



356, 
17, 32 

415, 



38, 81, 393, 

101, 144, 428, 

57, 422. 459, 

388, 405, 430, 

120, 

153, 156, 



341, 367, 380, 



376, 



146, 147, 160, 

81, 132, 165, 

9, 25, 41, 



148, 267, 
19,38, 316, 



178. 



460 



206, 



99 

24 
256 



424. 
464, 500 : 



427, 434 : 



542 
141 
493 

, 44 

282 

446 

77 

177 

422 

468 

464 

502 

126 

157 

7 

404 

466 

415 

429 

190 

185 

101 

7 

7 

1 

:>45 

526 

319 

280 

5 

541 
518 
543 
382 
548 
168 
5 
112 

52 
257 
519 
541 
507 
506 

35 
413 
518 
141 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lxiii 



Salisbury, Stephen, School Committee . . . 523, 530, 554, 560 

Sampson, Ezra W 214,245,390 

Clerk of Courts ° 44 

Sanborn, Hugh M 281 

Cemetery Committee lo3 > 396 

Committee 125 ' U8 ' 266 

Constable, 263, 289, 291, 310, 316, 319, 340, 348, 366, 378, 380, 383, 

392, 395, 460, 500 

Fence VieAver 48 ° 

Field Driver 289, 466 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 168 

Pound Keeper .... 192,194,273,396,466,507 

Prudential School Committee 51, 151, 164 

Selectman, ISO, 192, 205, 206, 208, 211, 218, 219, 223, 224, 236, 237, 
246, 249, 251, 254, 256, 258, 260, 261, 262, 270, 272, 284, 

286, 291 
Surveyor of Highways, 51, 56, 152. 156. 157. L81, 189, 192, 225, 

261, 262, 289, 291, 347, 353, 424 

Sanborn, William 327 

Sandburn, Enoch 

Sanderson. 

Sanderson, Daniel 37,101,142,188,390 

Committee, 5, 8, U, 20. 27, 29, 42, 84, 87, 99, 125, lis. 163, 187. 

195, 231, 266, 267, 274, 281, 285, 295, 303, 314, 321, 336, 

342, 354, 364, 373, 374, 397, 399, 441 

Field Driver 348 

. Moderator, 98, 107, 123, 128, 144, 150, 158, 171, 180, 193, 254, 257 



Motion 



324 



Petition 334, 335, 340, 341, 366 

Prudential School Committee 19, 26 

Representative 33, 98, 140, 171, 209 

Selectman, 45, 55, 50. 62, 65, 68, 82, 85, 86. 92, 97, 107, 120, 121, 
123, 132, 133, 138, 141, 144, 150, 155, 156, 157, 168, 169, 
174, 175, 178, 179, 182, 194, 219, 224. 236, 237, 238, 246, 

249, 251, 254, 256 
Surveyor of Highways, 19, 82, 85, 8G, 110, 152, 157, 189, 224, 225 
Trustee of School Fund . 9, 19, 25, 41, 59, 81, 132, 165, 185 

Sanderson, Eli D., Constable 554 

Sanderson, Hugh M 10 ° 

Cemetery Committee 108 

Prudential School Committee 

Surveyor of Highways, 19, 38, 55, 72, 82, 85, 86, 108, 110, 120, 121 

Sargent, Ignatius 294 ' 313 

Sargent, John : 

Secretary of State 543 

Treasurer and Receiver-General ol8 > ° 43 

Savary, George, Lieutenant-Governor 17 ° 

Savary, John 



lxiv INDEX TO NAMES. 

Scammell, John C. : 

Senator 170, 209, 250 

Special Commissioner 42, 43 

Scudder, Charles W 461, 526 

Assistant Assessor 459 

Auditing Committee, 263, 393, 395, 429, 461, 465, 500, 506, 524, 

530, 555, 560 

Field Driver 317, 319 

Scullon, Mary 54 

Seamans, 190, 287 

Seamans, Augustus W 311, 346, 386 

Assessor 422, 423, 425, 459, 464 

Field Driver . 429 

Representative 252 

Seamans, James M 311, 346, 386, 481, 482, 483 

Constable 289, 291, 347 

Field Driver 316, 319, 348, 352 

Surveyor of Wood and Lumber . . . 289, 291, 317, 319 

Sears, David ' . 367, 368, 390 

Petition 438, 456 

Sears, Joshua, Field Driver 460, 464 

Sears, Willard : 

Committee .......... 230 

Representative 209, 247 

Searle, Anne 54 

Seaver, Ebenezer, County Treasurer 8 

Seaver, Joshua 143 

Seaverns, Josiah . . 313 

Seaverns, Luther 100 

Seaverns, Thomas . . 100, 266, 272, 313, 321, 323, 345, 360, 397, 399 
Committee .......... 5, 6 

Seaward, Joel D 30 

Secomb, Edward R 101, 350, 461, 526 

Committee 354 

Sedgwick, Theodore, Lieutenant-Governor 5 

Sewell, Samuel E 17 

District Elector 413 

Governor 139, 170, 209, 250 

Shailer, Rev. William H. ... 287, 310, 343, 383, 419, 458 

General School Committee, 7, 15, 19, 26, 38, 42, 50, 80, 82, 93, 95, 

108, 111, 116, 151, 180, 181, 194, 204, 220, 260, 288, 

315, 319, 345, 347, 352, 353, 392, 395, 396, 423, 450 

Sharp, Stephen -255 



Shaw, Henry, Governor . 
Shaw, John M., District Elector 
Shaw, John N., District Elector 
Shaw, Robert G., District Elector 
Sheaf, .... 



170 
141 
412 
412 
142 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lxv 



Sheaf e, Mark W 

Field Driver 






263, 


233 
289, 291, 292 


Highway Surveyor 
Prudential School Committee 








261. 262 
234, 262 


Sheafes, 








194 


Shed, Calvin, pauper 

Shedd, 








163, 189 

556 


Shelden, Asa G. 368, 379, 380, 381, 387 


, 388 


389, 390, 


397, 


403, 404, 405 


Shurtleff, Dr. S. A 








101, 404 


Cemetery Committee 

Committee ..... 




. 10 


27, 


396 
29, 33, 42. 88 


Representative 
School Committee . 








18 
460 


Simmons, David A. : 










Representative to Congress . 
Senator 








544 
250, 282 


Sinclair, James, Field Driver . 








555 


Sleeper, James 

Smith, Adolphus .... 
Smith, Albert W 








31 
142 
526 


Committee .... 








535, 549 


Smith, Benjamin .... 

Smith, C 

Smith, Calvin 








382 

•184 

100, 368, 390 


Constable .... 
Surveyor of Highways . 

Smith, Charles 

Constable .... 




226, 


232 


42S 

424, 425, 42N 

31, 101 

428, 460, 464 


Field Driver .... 








181, 192 


Pound Keeper, 157, 164, 224, 226, 273, 290, 291, 

429, 


292, 
461 


317, 39.°.. 396, 
464, ."»00, 506 


Surveyor of Highways . 

Smith, Joseph, District Elector 


224, 


22;. 


531, 554, 560 
25, 313 

280 








47 








548 


School Committee, 423. 425, 428, 460, 46 


4, 499, 506 


, 52: 


496, 521 
. 530, 5*54, 560 


Smith, T. 






313 


Snow, Amos 






100 


Field Driver . . ... 






51, 55, 56 


Snow, Silas 


. 24. 25, 


36, 


54 

52, 58, 73, 112 








387 


Souther, Laban : 








County Commissioner . 






128 
489 


Spinney, Samuel R., Representative to C 


'ongr 


ess . 




236 
489 



lxvi 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Spooner, Bourne, District Elector . 

Sprague. J 

Sprague, Peleg, Presidential Elector 
Sprague. Seth, Lieutenant-Governor 
Spurr, Samuel Q., Presidential Elector 
Stacy, Ebenezer H., District Elector 
Stacy, Ebenezer W., District Elector 
Stearns, Miss Catharine . 

Stearns. Charles, 26, 194, 222, 368, 370, 379, 380, 381, 387, 388, 389, 

409, 566, 567 

Committee 

Fire Ward 

Senator ........... 

Stearns, Charles, Jr. . 15, 16, 17. 101, 112, 143, 144, 357, 388 

Assessor, 45. 55, 56, 73, 82, 85, 86, 107, 120, 121, 150, 156, 157, 

192, 220, 224, 225, 260, 261, 288, 291, 315, 320, 331, 

352, 353, 359, 422, 423, 425 

Assistant Assessor 

Committee, 6, 9, 27, 29, 42, 83, 99, 105, 125, 173, 182, 248, 266, 

295, 314, 549, 555, 559 
Prudential School Committee, 108, 151, 181, 225, 253, 2G2, 293, 

324, 348, 352, 393, 429, 461 

Eepresentative .... 140, 171, 173, 174, 209 

Selectman and Assessor, 7, 19, 26, 38, 45, 58, 146, 147, 158, 160. 

Surveyor of Highways, 8, 19, 38. 51, 55, 56, 72. 108, 120, 121, 

156, 157, 181, 189, 192, 224, 225, 316, 

352, 353, 393, 396, 

Trustee of School Fund 

Stearns, George W. 

Prudential School Coram itte 
Stearns, Marshal 

Auditing Committee 



9, 19, 25, 59, SI, 132. 1(15 
66 



Cemetery Committee 
Committee . ■ 
Fence Viewer 
Field Driver . 
Fire Ward 
Moderator, 



38, 181, 225 
101, 253, 428 



. 317, 319, 320 
84, 88, 148, 152 



234, 348, 352. 425 

468, 507, 566, 567 

108 

348, 352, 393, 395 
177, 187, 216, 509 



19, 38, 51, 55, 56, 86, 87, 120, 126 



19, 38, 51, 82 
176, 178, 206, 210, 215, 218, 225, 232, 238, 246, 

343, 453 

Motion 196, 370, 509 

Representative . . . .18, 250, 252, 306, 338, 339 

Selectman and Overseer of Poor, 150, 156, 157, 168, 169, 174, 

178, 179, 180, 192, 194, 205, 206, 208, 211, 215, 218, 

222, 288, 291, 292, 499, 512, 516, 521, 523, 540, 546, 

553, 568, 571, 577, 580, 582 

Trustee of Public Library 

Stephens, Nathaniel, Presidential Elector 

Sterns, Solomon F. 

Stetson, 



280 

125 

32 

17 

32 

140 

279 

39 

390, 

, 579 

20 

7 

489 

, 579 

180, 

347, 

, 437 

459 

285, 

, 563 

317, 

, 465 

, 250 

190 

152, 

320, 

424 

, 185 

, 267 

, 429 

, 579 

, 162 

, 396 

. 572 

, 292 

316 

, 108 

327, 

, 546 

, 586 

, 489 

175, 

219, 

551, 

, 585 

562 

32 

101 

159 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lxvii 



Stetson, Caleb : 

District Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 

Senator .... 
Stevenson, J. Thomas 
Stockbridge, Charles D., Elector at 
Stoddard, Bela .... 

Committee 

Representative 

Selectman 
Stoddard, George 

Committee 

Field Driver . 

Fire Ward 



Larere 



105, 173, L82, 
261, 262, 270. 



398 



153, 156 
152, 181, 193. 

Stone, Elisha 25, 58, 73, 99, 101 

Constable, 8, 19, 38, 44, 45, 51, 55, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65, 
83, 85, 86, 92, 93, 96, 97, 102, 103, 106, 

120, 121, 122, 123, 133, 138, 139, 14;!. 144. 
L56, 157, L69, 170. 17:., 170, 17s. 179, 181, 
218, 221. 226, 246, 249, 256, 316, 318, 326, 
347, 353, 392, 395, 402, 103, 409, 111, 423, 
434, 438, 444. 253, 460, 463, 470. 47:1. 479, 
505, .".12. 521. 524. 529, 540. 551, 554. 569, 

Surveyor of Wood, etc., 7, 19. 38, 51. :,:>, 56, 82, 85 

121, 153, 156, 157, 182, 192, 224, 226, 261, 
317, 318, 34s, 352. 353. 39:1. 395, 425, 429, 

506, 524, 
Stone, Franklin ........ 

Field Driver 

Stone, Frederick, member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 
Stone. John S. : 

Committee ........ 

School Committee, 423, 425, 460, 404, 499, 506, 523, 
Storey, Charles W., Jr., Clerk House of Representatives 
Storrs, Rev. Richard S., Jr., General School Committee 
Strong, Lewis, Presidential Elector 
St. Paul's Society .... 
Sumner, Charles, Governor 
Sumner, Increase, Lieutenant-Governor 
Taber, Isaac C, District Elector 
Talbot, Enos, Senator . ... 
Tampkins and Shaw .... 

Tappan, Eliza 

Tasker. Elijah 

Taylor, Charles J. and George A. . 
Taylor, Isaac ..... 
Taylor, Simeon .... 

Tenney, Moses, Treasurer and Receiver-General 



412 

489. 518 

376 

387 

541 

184 

, 430, 442. 44'.» 

18 

. 27*. 284, 286 

100 

5. 6, 247 

157. 181, 192 

, 224, 225, 263 

, 111, 112. 204 

07. OS. 0!), 73, 

107, 108, 111. 

149. 150, 152, 

192, 207. 20S. 

328, 332, 335, 

12 1. 125, 120, 

188, I'-'-. 500, 

571, 578, 583, 

585 

, 80, 108, 120, 

264, 289, 2:il. 

401, 401. 5ni), 

555, 560, 501 

14, 100 

51. 55. 83, 85 

168 

520. 535 

530, 554. 560 

102 

181 

140 

346, 386 

542 

489 

280 

415 

520, 527 

54 

30 

386, 421, 455 

452, 462 

461 

543, 583 



lxviii 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Tenney, Moses, Jr., Treasurer and Receiver-General 

Thayer, John E. 

Thayer, Luther 

Thayer, Minot, Senator . 

Thayer, S. A. . 

Thayer, Seth T. . . . 

Assessor . 

Committee ...... 10, 

County Treasurer . 
. Fire Ward, 19, 38, 51, 82, 108, 152, 181, 193. 

General School Committee 

Prudential School Committee 

Representative 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Thomas, Benjamin F., District Elector 
Thomas, John B., Presidential Elector 
Thomas, John W., Sheriff 
Thompson, Amy Louisa Redding, pauper 
Thompson, Abraham R., District Elector 
Thompson, Charles : 

District Elector 

Treasurer and Receiver-General 
Thompson, Eliza, pauper 
Thompson, George, pauper 
Thompson. James D. : 

District Elector 

Lieutenant-Governor 
Thompson, Samuel, pauper 
Thompson, Timothy, Presidential Elector 
Thurston, Miles 
Tildcn, Thomas 

Committee 
Tillson, John 
Tinkham, Luther 
Tolman, Mrs. . 
Tolman, Charles W. 

Field Driver . 

Fire Ward 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 

Sealer of Leather .... 348, 352, 500 ; 
Torry, Ebenezer, District Elector 
Torry Martin : 

County Commissioner 

Senator .... 
Tower, Isaac, Senator 
Town, W. B., Representative 
Townsend, Samuel . 
Townsend, Samuel, Jr., Field Driver 



518 

255, 294, 313 

54 

170. 209, 250 

363 

26, 101, 148 

45, 55, 56, 57 

20, 26, 43, 120, 229 

50 

224, 225, 263. 289, 

291, 316. 319 

50 

7 



279 
32 
544 
189 
140 

140 
583 
1, 109, 163. 189 
7, 18, 109, 163, 189 



280 

414 

71 

32 

31 

. 26, 37 

14, 20, 26, 27 

15 

31, 101 

295 

101 

466 

429, 461, 465 

168 

507, 555, 561 

. ■ 413 



6, 8, 



506, 



42. 43, 128 

140, 170, 209 

250, 282 

446 

233 

291, 292 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



lxix 



1 



250, 25 



Townsend, Thadeus J. : 

Constable .... 

Surveyor of Highways . 
Train, Charles R., Councillor . 
Trask, Eliphalet, Lieutenant-Governor 
Tripp, Joseph, Presidential Elector 
Trowbridge, Charles, member Brookline Engine Co. No 
Trowbridge, Charles P., Eield Driver 
Trowbridge, John 

Fire Ward 
Trowbridge, Otis 
Trowbridge, Stephen W. 
Tufts, Alfred . 
Tukey, Franklin 

Constable, 225, 232, 237, 259, 263, 284, 289, 291, 299, 
337, 331), 343, 348, 392, 394, 395, 400, 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 
Turner, John N. : 

Assessor 315, 319, 331, 347, 

Committee .... 

Representative 

Representative to Congress . 

Senator 

Trustee of Public Library 
Twichell, Giner} 7 : 

Moderator .... 

Representative 
Underwood, Alvin G., District Elector 
Upton. Robert, Presidential Elector 
Usher, James M., District Elector . 

Vinal, Gideon 

Vinal, Otis 

Vinson, John, District Elector 
Vose, Elijah, District Elector . 
Wadsworth, Alexander 

Wait, Baldwin 

Wakefield. John H., Representative 
Walcott, Samuel, pauper 
Wales, Bradford L. : 

District Elector 

Governor .... 

Representative to Congress . 

Senator and Councillor . 
Wales, Erastus, Register of Deeds 

Wales, S 

Walker, Amasa, Lieutenant-Governor . . . 338 

Walker, Samuel A. . . 31,37,51,88,101,112,124, 

226, 227, 294, 313, 342, 349, 360 

Cemetery Committee 



225, 232 
531 

245, 584 
583 

32 

. . 168 

393, 395 

313 

320, 324 

16 

308 

25. Ill 

264 

305, 316, 318, 

417, 423, 424 

168 

352, 35! ». 422 
526 
376, 519 

513 

584 
562 



L'.VJ 



:;sc, 



1, 109. 



453 
489 
113 
32 
542 

421, 455 
526 
511 
141 
234 
30 
584 

163, 189 



541 

145 

283 

17, 32, 44, 98 

38 

99 

376, 114, 445 

208, 214, 215, 

452, 463, 480 

108 



lxx 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



Walker, Samuel A., - 
Committee 
Field Driver 



■continued. 



88, 



. 83, 86, 
192 

Governor .... 

Motion 

Walker, William P., Presidential Elector 
Wallace, William 
Walley, Samuel H. : 

Governor 

Representative to Congress 

Speaker, House of Representatives 
Ward, Andrew H., Councillor . 
Ward, Henry S. 
Ward, James 0. 

Warner, Oliver, Secretary of State 
Warner, Samuel, Jr., Senator 
Warren, Charles 

Field Driver . 

Fire Ward 

Highway Surveyor 

School Committee 
Warren, John W. 

Committee 

Constable 

Field Driver . 

Prudential School Committee 

Selectman .... 

Surveyor of Highways, 8, 19, 38, 51, 55 
110, 121, 152, 156, 157, 181 

Warren. M. C 

Warren, Samuel, Jr., County Commissioner . 
Warren, Simon : 

Committee ...... 

Field Driver, 19, 38, 153, 156, 157, 224, 



IDS 









. 33, 88, 125 


108, 


120, 


153, 


156, 157, 181, 


224 


226, 


261 


263, 289, 291 
63 


132 


191, 


195 


196, 210, 230 
32 
31 

518 

338, 414, 489 

135 

584 




67, 


101, 


111, 134, 142 

356, 490, 493 

583 

338 

101 


120, 


121, 


261, 


263, 289, 291 

324 


261, 


262, 


289, 


291, 292, 465 

499, 506, 507 

101 

148 

232 




7, 


317, 


319, 393, 395 

397 

260, 26J, 262 


56, 


"2. S 


I, 85 


86, 108, 110, 


189, 


192, 


224, 


225, 500, 524 
390 
427 



Pound-keeper 
Surveyor of Highways, 



. 108, 120 
108, 120, 121, 



Washburn, Emory, Governor 
Washington, George P., pauper 
Waterman, Ansel : 

Constable ..... 

Field Driver 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 
Waterman, Ansel H., Committee 

Webster, — 

Webster, Hon. Daniel .... 
Weed, John 



148 
226, 261, 26:'.. 289, 291, 348, 
352, 460, 464, 500, 506 
121, 181, 193, 194, 348, 352 
152, 156, 157, 181, 189, 192, 
224. 225. 261, 262, 289, 291 
445, 488 
7 



31 



424 
319 
168 
503 
4S2, 483 
432 
30 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



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Weeks, Nathaniel M., Fence Viewer 






7 


Weld. A. D 


. 16, 


143, 357, 493 






480. 481 


Wellington, Susan J. . . . . 




77 


Wellington, T. W 




31 


Fence Viewer ..... 




108, 121 


Prudential School Committee 




82, 108 


Surveyor of Highways .... 


82, 85, 86, 110 


Wellman, William A 




467, 468 






572 


Motion 




525, 548 


School Committee .... 


499, 


506, 523, 530 


Wells, Charles A 




211 


Wentworth, Nathaniel 






172 


West, Joshua, member Brookline Engine Co. No. : 






168 


Weston, Franklin, District Elector 






542 


Wetherell, E. P 






378 


Wheaton, Jesse, District Elector 






141 


Wheaton, Laban M., District Elector 






141 


Wheeler, Azariah B., District Elector 






541 


Whipple, Charles K., Representative to Congress 






414 


Whitaker, Edgar R., Senator .... 






140 


Whitaker, Edgar K. : 






Representative to Congress . 




271, 338 


Senator 


170, 


209, 250, 306 


White, Mrs 




15, 143, 194 


White, Benjamin 




23, 233 


White, Benjamin F., Senator .... 




489, 519 


White, Charles, Auditor 




584 


White, Joseph '. 101, 141 


300, 307, 


309, 317, 492 


Surveyor of Highways .... 




38, 51, 55, 72 


White, Joseph L 




17, 31, 101 


Field Driver 


7, 


19, 38, 51, 55 


Prudential School Committee 




442, 461, 465 


Surveyor of Highways .... 




8 


White, Joseph S., Field Driver 






263 


White, Rachel 






360 


White, Samuel 






183 


White, Thomas 






313 


White, Mrs. Thomas 






294 


White, Warren 23, 223 


, 438, 440 


441, 442, 450 


Prudential School Committee 




290 


Surveyor of Highways .... 




289, 291 


White, William 




31, 101 


Field Driver 




289 


Surveyor of Highways, 108, 120, 121, 181, 192 


, 193, 261, 


262, 289, 291 


Whitewell & Henks 


478, 


482, 485, 497 






77 






384 








519 



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INDEX TO NAMES. 



31, 52, 53 



Auditor 



Whitney, Aaron 

Constable 
Whitney, Charles 
Whitney, David 
Whitney, Giles H 

Whitney, Henry 

Whitney, James, pauper ..... 
Whitney, James C, Elector at Large 

Whitney, Joseph 

Whitney, Timothy P., Special Commissioner 
Whittemore, Amos ...... 

Whittemore, Michael, Jr., Special Commissioner 
Whittier, John G., District Elector 

Presidential Elector 
Whyte, Oliver .... 

Collector and Treasurer 

Field Driver . 

Eire Ward 

Surveyor of Highways . 

Town Clerk 
Whyte, Oliver, Jr. 



101, 



110, 



236, 



563 

524, 554 

126, 213 

117, 184, 281 

518, 543 

101 

188, 189 

412 

118 

326, 400, 401 

101 

236 

279, 413 

140 

15, 16, 17, 313 

1, 3, 11 

181, 192, 348, 352 

289, 291, 316, 318, 348, 352 

51, 55, 56, 72 

6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 27, 30, 31, 33, 37, 38, 43, 44, 50 

101 



Wild, Dr. Charles . . 122, 224, 248, 254, 266, 271, 272, 294, 322 

Auditing Committee, 1, 3, 8, 12, 19, 22, 38, 41, 47, 51, 75, 83, 108, 

113, 153, 162, 180, 181, 191, 219, 226, 259, 

290, 311 

Cemetery Committee 88, 118 

Committee . 10, 29, 119, 155, 342, 430, 431, 502, 505, 556, 557 
General School Committee 19, 23 



Motion 




219, 342, 504 


Petition 




417 


Wightman, Joseph M., Alderman of Boston 




539 


Wilde, Edward A. : 






Member Brookliue Engine Co. No. 1 




168 


School Committee 


423, 460, 464, 


499, 506, 507 


Wilde, J 




184 


Wilder, David, Jr. : 






Committee ..... 




559, 563 


Representative .... 




489 


Wilder, Marshal P., Senator 


250, 


306, 338, 376 


Wilkinson, Ezra, Attorney-General 




543, 584 


Representative to Congress 




. 61, 63, 66 


Senator 


306, 


376. 415, 446 


Willnrrl 




160 
279 


VV llltllLl) ..... 

Willard, Joseph, District Elector 




Willard, Sidney, Presidential Elector 




32 


Williams, Benjamin P. : 






County Commissioner 




128, 133 


Special Commissioner . 




42, 128, 149 


Senator and Councillor . 




5, 17, 32, 44 



INDEX TO NAMES. 



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Williams, Elisha W 118 

Williams, Frederick J 461 

Assessor 465, 499, 523, 553 

School Committee 423 

Williams, George F., Secretary of State 518 

Suit 577, 580 

Williams, Howard S 350, 461, 526 

Committee 510 

Selectman, 499, 509, 512, 521, 523, 539, 540, 546, 551, 553, 568, 571, 

572, 577, 580, 582, 585 

Williams, J. D 322 

Williams, Maria A. 77 

Williams, M. B. : 

School Committee 396 

Town Clerk 383 

Willis, James 30 

Willis, Nathan, Lieutenant-Governor 17, 32 

Wilson, Archelans, District Elector 542 

Wilson, Henry, Governor 445, 488 

Wilson, J 21 

Winsor, A., School Committee 460 

Winthrop, Robert C. : 

Elector at Large 412 

Governor 375 

Withiugton, Enos 118 

Withington. Lucy Ann ......... 77 

Withiugton. Moses 101. 390 

Committee 586, 587 

Member Brookline Engine Co. No. 1 168 

Selectman 262 

Treasurer and Collector, 288, 291, 311, 315, 318, 315, 316, 347, 352, 

386, 392, 395, 421, 423, 425, 455, 456, 464, 

499, 523, 529, 553, 565, 581 

Withiugton, Otis 30. 101, 142, 143 

Committee 125, 176, 502, 508 

Field Driver 7, 224, 226 

Representative 171, 173, 174, 250 

Town Clerk, 45, 55, 56, 59, 61, 64, 66, 68, 70, 73, 85, 86, 92, 96, 101, 

106, 107, 111, 120, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 

134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 148, 150, 156, 

157, 165, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 180 

Wood, John 31 

Wood, Wilder 30 

Wood, Wilks, Presidential Elector 32 

Wood, William H., District Elector 412 

Woodside, Franklin, Commissioner of Insolvency . . . 544 

Woodsome, Albert 31 

Field Driver 51, 55, 56 



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Woodward, Chauncy : 

Field Driver 225,232 

Prudential School Committee 82 

Surveyor of Highways ........ 19 

Woodward, E. F. . 15, 16, 34, 36, 52, 76, 119, 126, 134, 143, 155, 420 

Woodward, Royal, Jr 463, 480 

Woodward, Thomas, Prudential School Committee ... 38 

Woodward, Thomas N 277, 377, 379 

Committee 148 

Field Driver 348 

Surveyor of Highways 181,192,261,262 

Woodward, William H 77 

Worthington, A. M. W., Senator and Councillor . . . .' 17 
Worthington, Erastus, Register of Insolvency .... 544 

Wright, Eben 463 

Wright, Isaac H. : 

Representative to Congress 140, 209 

Senator 63 

Wyman, Samuel 101, 134, 142, 356 

Wyman, Thomas 15 

Wyman, William 15 



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